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A company is hiring a blogger / social media person. Senior management have spent a lot of time defining the position. They couldn’t really make up their mind if that is a web (hence IT) position or a marketing position. Number of different people contributed to the job specification. The required skills list had 50 [...]

Creating your personal and or company brand is a delicate act on the social networking sites. You really need to be genuine, positive, honest, and stand behind anything you say. And that is something in the contradiction with the main task – being Active. What do you say on a web 2.0 sites – if [...]

Jobs Blog is only about 2 years old. And web site about the online recruitment in Ireland. I write it, when I catch some time (from my ‘real job’), and when there is something interesting to write about. National Recruitment Awards 2009 was last Friday. A superb event. I mean it. A SUPERB event! I [...]

Bill Fischer is having a speech in Dublin on the Microsoft’s Future of Recruitment conference later this week. His company in Bill’s own words: TwitterJobSearch.com, is a global search engine for Twitter that uses natural language processing to identify and index offers of employment. I asked Bill what will he be talking about in the [...]

… when all the personal branding channels are combined. In no particular order: 1. Social networks presence – descriptive public profile combined with the active participation in discussions. 2. Personal Blog 3. Presence on the Corporate Blog 4. Any online publication (indexed by Google) The real power of all your online presence is in the [...]

Do you or your company use social media networking or social media to support recruitment efforts? 76% plan to invest in employee referrals 72% plan to increase their use of social networks 66% have successfully hired a candidate identified or introduced through an online social network Jobvite also asked employers to list the social networks [...]

Twitter is a social network that lets the users communicate with messages of only up to 140 characters. SMS-ish like. When you register you can follow other people and what happens when you follow them – whatever they write is shown on your profile. You actually subscribe to their updates. Other people can follow you [...]

I just love analyzing the statistical data. Where is a LinkedIN poll: What is the most important new platform for brands to master: Digg, Facebook, iPhone, LinkedIn, Twitter ? Twitter 36% Facebook 29% iPhone 17% LinkedIN 15% Digg 1% Great! Now let’s put this into the perspective. This is a poll on the LinkedIN page. [...]

Twitter is surprisingly good tool for the recruitment. You can track the conversations and when used in conjunction with LinkedIN or any other tool it shows the real time live activity of the person. As does Facebook. Monster or any other CV database will never tell you that. An application from a job site or [...]

When you put a good team together with a bit of funding a good things happen. It might take a few iterations, and polishing of the product, but the end result is what makes Ireland what it is – a nest for the Entrepreneurs! Who is behind Flexitimers? Dervla Cunningham and Joy Redmond made it [...]