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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 [...]

Work in Ireland (WorkinIreland.ie) as jet another recruitment job portal. Although it is not really publicised, it is owned by a recruitment agency called Work Direct (WorkDirect.ie). The agency is run by the Directors Philip Beggs and Sabina Frontzek. The Work in Ireland site is not that bad looking. Certainly not that bad as a [...]

Got an interesting tweet from Anne from CPL today. Pointing to the PR about CPL. It basically says that CPL is still in black. Pretax profits dropped 92% to €1.7 million for the 12 months to June, in what it called “better than expected” annual results. Although he public knows them as the largest recruitment [...]

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? I call from a client today about their jobs being published to FreeJobs.ie made me thinking. Their jobs published on the Free Jobs web site are about 3 years old. They got an application for a job advertised there yesterday. Since my client is [...]

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 [...]

Well, just when you thought the season of the job boards is over, and there will not be new one every other week,… there is a new one! The latest edition to the Irish recruitment industry is SixFigures! Here is a little blurb about them from their own site: SixFigures.ie is the members only job [...]

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 [...]

The National Recruitment Federation Conference today was far better than I expected. To be honest I was a bit afraid to go there knowing what the Recruitment Industry is going through in the last months. There are a number of people I have heard assessments quoting more than 60% of the recruitment consultants been made [...]

Recruit Ireland found itself an a bit funny situation this month. On one hand they are the main sponsor of the National Recruitment Federation Conference later this week. The NRF is the association of the Irish Recruitment Agencies, and most of them are actually Recruit Ireland’s paying clients. On the other hand Recruit Ireland has [...]

*** PRESS RELEASE *** National Recruitment Federation Launches Annual Conference 2009 with the good news of 400 jobs filled last week 1st April 2009 The National Recruitment Federation today announced the line-up for its Annual Conference 2009 entitled Facing the Future With Ease – Education, Enterprise & Enthusiasm, which will take place on Thursday, 23rd [...]

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 [...]

Something strange happened today. First a well known Irish Recruitment agency called on the phone this morning and asks if we can post their jobs via our Multiple Jobs Posting service to the CareerBuilder job site. I found it strange because CareerBuilder is an old site and it used to be US oriented so far. [...]

A great loss for the financial sector happened today with the partial takeover of the Anglo Irish Bank by the government the existing Board of Directors have all resigned. Anne Heraty who is running the largest Irish recruitment agency CPL also resigned today from her Directors role in the Anglo Irish Bank. I see it [...]

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 [...]