I would like to congratulate for your website which gives many good advices.

I am in charge of the website thejob.ie and I have read your comments about our site. I respect your point of view but if I disagree with the comments you write about us.

Approach people is a French recruitment agency operating for 8 years in Ireland and specialised in multilingual profiles. Therefore, many foreign candidates contact the agency everyday to help them in their search or to get advice on finding a job in Ireland. Unfortunately we don’t have a job for everyone, almost that the agency is focused on the recruitment of experienced candidates in IT, Sales or Finance.
That is why Approach People decided to launch TheJob.ie, to encourage visitors to apply directly to employers. Indeed, TheJob.ie is specialised in junior & multilingual positions in the areas of call centre, pub/restaurant, shops…

I understand that some agencies try to hide themselves behind the name of employers in adverts but that is ABSOLUTELY NOT the case on TheJob.ie. Approach People deals with more qualified positions, where you need to have some experience and a fluent English.
When someone applies to a position, the CV goes straight away to the employer and NOT to Approach People. We will not publish any adverts putting a company name trying to get CVs for the agency. The reason the contact details are covered is that so companies like yours cannot approach our clients to get them to advertise online.

I was a little bit confused when I read your comments, as our visitors are really happy to get some help. Furthermore, now that we have thousands of visitors on the site coming from various sources, we do not have to rely on Approach People’s candidates, so we will soon be accepting agencies on our websites to increase the chance for our visitors to get a job in Ireland.
I’m sure you understand, having yourself developed your website a few years ago, pitching companies at first!

We have nothing to hide and most of our candidates are aware that Approach People is behind Thejob.ie, but we want candidates to apply to a job website and not to an agency, so we are not going to write on the front page that this website belongs to Approach People!

Please let me know if you have any questions about our service, but I would apreciate if you would check your information before sharing them on your blog!

I wish you best of luck with the blog and your activities.

Regards,

Christophe Guerin