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Google AdWords was good! Years ago I was preaching to the recruiters in Ireland to start using Google AdWords. The cost per click (CPC) was literally a few cents. The early adopters really drove massive traffic, and relevant traffic to their web sites. I remember my own www.IrelandJobs.ie – and how easy was it to [...]

The CPL recruitment agency is the leading recruitment agency in Ireland. They managed acquire a number of competitors, and also grow organically in some areas. The web site is a quite important thing for any recruitment agency. It represents you on the Internet, and the Internet is the channel for the majority of the communication [...]

Ever noticed how hiring graduates based on their CV’s isn’t fun at all? Same CVs, with lots of education all over and no experience, at least not relevant one? Ever got into the situation where you cannot really determine anything relevant in eth CV, and started basing your filtering process solely on the ‘Interests’ and [...]

Will a good blog make you a magnet for a good job offers? Tom is the IT guy, who writes his blog for a few years not. His experience does not really show that having a good blog will make you attractive to the Irish recruiters. Is Irish recruitment industry a bit ‘Old Fashioned’, and [...]

Julian Stopps wrote an article: “The Second Generation Of Job Aggregators” that made me thinking. What is the next generation of the online publishing and advertising media going to look like (and function like)? The following are the basics: 1. Web 1.0 – a ‘Classic Job board’, where people go and advertise jobs, and job [...]

Job Aggregators have their fair share of success and problems. As far I can remember the first one in the Irish market was www.IrelandJobs.ie. It was displaying jobs from about 5 to 7 job boards that existed in Ireland back in 2002 -2003. Job boards went ballistic!!! Every single one of them turned aggressive, and [...]

eRecruit.ie is the leading Irish multi-posting service. Working alongside all Irish job boards and utilising cutting edge technology, eRecruit.ie can offer recruiters the most comprehensive and cost effective job posting service available. eRecruit.ie is the only Irish ‘Instant Job Posting’, Multiple Job Posting Software that enables you to preview you jobs posted in real time [...]

Just saw a quite unusual Google AdWords campaign for the Irish job advertising market. The Irish Defence Forces is advertising (and paying the TOP Google AdWords rate!) for their add to be displayed for the keyword ‘jobs’ in Google.ie. Is this the first time a Governmental agency (or how do you call the Army?) has [...]

Just noticed the update to the Monster.ie job site this morning. First impressions are really good. Nice usage of cookies, it stores a job seekers activity history. That enables you to see je list of jobs you have viewed on Monster jobs site before. The interface seams upgraded with the right column with different data, [...]

Best Companies to Work for in Ireland 2007 According to the Great Place to Work® Institute Ireland The best place to work in Ireland is in one of the 10 companies listed below: Accenture Airtricity Brightwater CB Richard Ellis Ireland Diageo Ireland eBay Google Ireland Ltd Microsoft Ireland Sigmar Recruitment Unicare Pharmacy Ltd In other [...]

The Google Ireland Jobs page is designed in the traditional Google Design Stile. The only ‘Outstanding’ design elements Google Recruitment or Web Development department found appropriate to place on the site is a bit of the green font. Noticeable is also the usage of the word ‘Opening’ instead of the job. That is most likely [...]

The recruitment industry is changing. To stay on top any recruiters has to in one way or the other follow the change, since the ‘old’ recruitment model will soon simple disappear in most industries. The Web 2.0 Recruitment will differ greatly from the traditional recruitment in the aspect of the recruitment advertising and searching and [...]

As Gretchen correctly pointed out in the comments of the Microsoft Jobs Blog – The Winner of The Best Recruitment Blog in Ireland Award 2008 the Microsoft Jobs in Ireland are actually covered on the Microsoft International Tech Jobs Blog as opposed to the US one. The Microsoft International Tech Jobs Blog is actually on [...]

Every Recruiter in Ireland I spoke to about Blogging asked me the following same questions: How should I go about it? See the bottom post 22 hours for detailed steps. Then the next question is always: What should I blog about? Danny Wall wrote the shortest and simplest answer in the article Number 1 in [...]

Welcome to the: The Best Recruitment Agency Blog in Ireland Award 2008 In not that strong competition between the Recruitment Agencies in Ireland The Winner of The Best Recruitment Agency Blog in Ireland Award is: Prosperity Blog Ta – daaa!!!!!!! This is the first Blog used for the recruitment purpose I have found by any [...]