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The following series of articles I will write about the long list of changes LinkedIn have brought in lately, and how does it all reflect the recruitment process in Ireland. The main topics are: • Free Job Advertising by LinkedIn • Paid Job Seeker Account on LinkedIn • Why Would I Pay LinkedIn? • LinkedIn [...]

Cpl PMO Solutions are pleased to announce a Recruitment Open Day for IT Business Analyst’s. Cpl as largest IT Recruiter have unrivalled access to Ireland’s top companies in the Multinational, IT, Finance, Telcomms sectors and across the economy as a whole. With this coverage our specialist recruiters deal with the hiring managers for IT Business [...]

Resumark brought in a nice new business model in the online recruitment industry. The concept is essentially borrowed from the Google AdWords – Google AdSense model. While Google pays the web site owners to show the Google AdSense on their sites and charges the Google AdWords clients to pay per click for those same adverts [...]

Applying for jobs can be a difficult business at the best of times, but for many people the most nerve-wracking and difficult part of the recruitment process is getting past the interview stage. After sifting through the various applications, the interview process offers a chance for employers to meet some of the more promising candidates [...]

Worky is a Recruitment Social Network. Kind of like LinkedIN, but a few years later. Worky has no people in it jet, but has the pricing model – a bit steeper than LikedIN. What is wrong here: RecruitIreland goes FREE and in the same month Worky is goes live more expensive than LinkedIN, that Irish [...]

Irish recruitment agency Brightwaters online poll for January 2009 was: Are we as a nation too hard on ourselves? David Bloch, CEO of the Brightwater Group comments: Until now I have gone with the “ask the audience” answer, but not this time. I think the Irish are too hard on themselves! I am speaking as [...]

I guess some people will say I like writing about the Irish Jobs boards. The funny thing is that there is so many popping out, it is almost every week you hear about a new one. This is just in the last month or so: TheJobs.ie, JobisJob.ie, Jobs2do.ie aka Spamers, Monster Finance, urHired So here [...]

The job and employment landscape has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Once there was a job for life. Nowadays employees can expect anywhere from five to thirteen job changes throughout their career. Some of this change is self driven but other times employees are forced into this situation through redundancy. Redundancy is a [...]

Any SEO Consultant will tell you that a decent SEO project should somewhere in its starting phase have a step called Keyword Analysis. Unfortunately different people have a quite different idea what exactly does the Keyword Analysis mean. Some mean that it is about finding the most relevant keywords, some that it is about the [...]

As companies tighten their budgets, the recruitment freezes become more and more widespread. When it comes at the end of the year, you will hear a large number of recruitment managers mentioning the recruitment freeze as early as October. What does it mean for the recruiters? Almost no new business for the last two months [...]

It is a beautiful day today, almost perfect to drive to Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny, to attend the CIPD Ireland Annual Conference 2008. Both The Irish Times and the Independent are the highest ‘Platinum Partners’. Meaning you can see the teams of the sales people from both Loazajobs and Irish Times Jobs – doing their [...]

Larry Heiman wrote a nice blog post: Recruiting is a Marketing Task Here is the part where he explains the Marketing processes applied to the recruitment, and sourcing to help you find that right candidate for the your jobs: As an enlightened business owner, you understand the importance of doing market research on your prospective [...]

An Online Recruitment Jobs Fair has several advantages over a Traditional Recruitment Fair. Jobs Fair for Recruiters More convenient: No staffing required. More effective: Lasts for two weeks instead of a few hours. More cost-effective: Cheaper than holding an actual job fair. No material, travel, food and accommodation costs. More targeted: Targeted at specific industries/audiences. [...]

LinekedIN has a really slow take-up in Ireland. Irish recruiters are only recently being less ‘glued’ to the traditional job boards like Irish Jobs, and started embracing into the modern recruitment methods. LinkedIN is the most common place all the recruiters went to in a search for a new candidates. The problem that happened is [...]