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Well LinkedIn have decided that the Recruitment Agency market is to big not to service it. The new product called LinkedIn Recruiter is launched that enables Recruitment Agencies to harvest the full power of the LinkedIn Social Network. Is LinkedIN Recruiter a good or a bad thing for you? Well, depends from your standpoint. LinkedIn [...]

Following the Recruitment Workshop in Dublin, Peter Cosgrove from Hudson Recruitment is holding the same in Cork. There is a Galway Workshop planned as well. Date and location will be confirmed here closer to the date. JOB SEEKER EVENT CORK NOVEMBER 10th The National Recruitment Federation is hosting a free job seekers event on November [...]

Social Networks are here! Recruitment and sourcing in particular is changing. Job Boards that the recruitment agencies have been relying for as their main source of candidates are getting smaller role to play today. The future for the job boards is not extremely bright either. Their dominance is being replaced by the social networks. There [...]

Peter Cosgrove of the NRF will hold a talk for job seekers on September 30th in the Grand Canal Hotel for up to 100 people. To register please email director@nrf.ie. This is a pilot test free jobseekers workshop by NRF. The presenter Peter Cosgrove agreed to meet me over a coffee and we had a [...]

The workshop will run for 90 minutes and will cover: • Writing a world class CV • Where to find the next job • Advice on dealing with recruitment agencies • Improving interview skills and techniques • Networking skills • Negotiating salaries The goal is to provide insight and support to candidates who are currently [...]

About Horizon Horizon is the new online, outplacement service from IrishJobs.ie. Is your company making staff redundant? Would you like to offer additional support and advice to ease these staff back into employment quickly, but are put off by the cost of traditional outplacement services? Then Horizon is for you. Call or email your IrishJobs.ie [...]

Irish Recruiters LinkedIN Group got together in the a form of a Recruitment Conference. It was great to see so many friends together, thank you all for coming! We all need to say a BIG: Thank You to Declan Fitzgerald who organised it all again so well! Pictures? Well this time around I decided I [...]

Since the Irish recruiters have finally understood that the search engine optimization strategy is the key to the success of their business I get asked a same question more and more, and more often: How do I write a job advertisement so that it attracts more and better quality candidates? While the page you are [...]

New recruitment web sites in Ireland are popping up. About 2 a month in the last 12 months. Recession stimulates the jobs sites creating somehow. The new sites try to be unique somehow. All trying to solve some problems that either recruiters or employers or job seekers seems to have. The real problems Employers have [...]

JobsMarket.ie is a Social Network for recruitment. Here is a how Jobs Market front page describes the jobs sites: Jobs Market works for you! There are three fundamentally bad aspects of the jobs boards: 1. The job boards are selling YOUR data and you gave them it for free. 2. The job board has effectively [...]

Well the recession does not seem to have any impact on the creativity of the Irish future jobs board owners. TalentTank.ie is the latest proof of that. While some of the largest ones are changing their business models drastically: Jobs.ie adopted Google AdSense advertisements, and is selling pop under traffic (those popup windows that open [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]