Jobs Ireland

In his so simple jet excellent article Vladimir walks us trough SEO for WordPress – Page Sculpting. Although not many job sites are published on WordPress (but there are some like Sales Jobs in Ireland and Jobs Finance) the same principle of the appropriate usage of the NOFOLOW tag attribute should work on the jobs boards as well.

How to use Page Sculpting on the Jobs Site?

There are number of the pages on the Jobs Sites that should not necessarily pass the ‘link juice’ to the internal page they are linking to. In the same time there is a number of pages that would benefit from the inbound links.

Pages that should get ‘behind’ the NOFOLOW:
Terms and Conditions
About
Contact
Help
And all the other pages that do not contain your main keywords. The Jobs Site has a natural list of keywords that are based on the searching patterns of the job hunters.

The search phrases are like:
Jobs
Jobs in Ireland
Irish Jobs
Jobs Ireland
Ireland Jobs
Dublin Jobs
Cork IT Jobs

The jobs site will naturally acquire the majority of its traffic by being ranked high for such phrases. There is also a Long Tail theory, but it brings too large number of keywords into the game that the Page Sculpting can be properly used for.

Would it be the best approach to implement the Page Sculpting into the Jobs Site in the way that the NOFOLOW is inserted into the very much every internal link but those linking to the pages that are optimised for the main search phrases?

Or is the better way of implementing Page Sculpting into the Jobs Site?

Did you get far less job applications this weekend? Are you wondering if everything is OK with your job board advertisements? Is you email working? Is the CV parser working OK???

Before you get into that panic mode this morning, just remember what the weather was like this weekend? It was sunny and hot! Did you stay home? If you did, it was probably to watch the match!

Well job hunters are the same. Sunny weekend after a rainy week results in a huuuuge dip in the job applications. Job boards simply have far les visitors!

Downturn in economy? What downturn? Look at the like of the companies hiring:

http://www.jobs-ireland.ie/blog/recruiters-in-ireland/

What software platform are the Irish Jobs Boards running on today:

Jobs.ie – Windows Server 2003
IrishJobs.ie – Windows Server 2003
LoazaJobs.ie – Windows Server 2003
EmployIreland.ie – Windows Server 2003
RecruitIreland.ie – Windows Server 2003
Monster.ie – Windows Server 2003
You-name-it.ie – Windows Server 2003 (most likely as well!)

And then you get us at www.Jobs-Ireland.ie:

Jobs-Ireland.ie Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_python/2.7.11 Python/2.3.4 PHP/5.2.3 mod_throttle/3.1.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

Markes you wonder, doesn’t it? Why are we the only one???

Career Opportunities for People With Terrible Grammar.

Sending a CV that is not 101% correct grammatically is one of the worst things one can do for his / her career. Cover letter is something people write customised for every job, and this is where the majority if the spelling mistakes in the job applications happen.

Poor spelling and grammar will cost you! Get it triple checked well in advance of any job application.

Do not shut the door of your potential future employer before you even walked in.

Jobs Ireland is a blog about the recruitment industry in Ireland and jobs advertised online on the Irish Jobs sites.