What is the future for job boards?

August 15th, 2009


Job boards, by tradition, provide a platform on which recruiters pay to advertise their vacancies then wait in anticipation for applications to flood through to designated in-boxes. There is nothing particularly deliberate about the service and the reactivity is both its strength and its weakness.
But in the current climate there is little room for [...]

Job Seekers Find New Rules Of Recruitment

June 19th, 2009

Written by Yuki Noguchi, Correspondent, National Desk, NPR News
With the unemployment rate at 9.4 percent and ticking up, millions of Americans are in the job market for the first time in several years.
But the job market has changed in that short time. The paper resume is laughably passe, at least in some circles. Not having [...]

Careers Coach

June 17th, 2009

Landing your Ideal Job – Interview Preparation Tips
I have talked to a lot of Job seekers over the past month and I have been amazed at how poorly many of them have been preparing for their interviews. In the current climate it hard enough to get to interview stage for a position, so when [...]

Irish Recruitment Survey

June 16th, 2009

A recent survey carried out by RecruitIreland.com shows that despite the prevailing doom and gloom, Irish jobseekers can see some positive outcomes from the recession.
Dublin, June 16, 2009 – A recent survey carried out by RecruitIreland.com into how the recession is impacting jobseekers shows that despite the prevailing doom and gloom, jobseekers can see some [...]

Irish Jobs meets LinkedIN

June 5th, 2009

The Irish Recruitment Conference was a place where you could see Irish Jobs and LinkedIN together.

Jane and Patrick having a chat during a break of a Irish Recruiters Conference: “The Future of Recruitment – Part 1: The Road Ahead”
Jane Lorigan, CEO of IrishJobs.ie
Jane has been CEO of IrishJobs.ie for over 4 years and is also [...]

Twitter – a Tool to Increase Website Traffic

May 28th, 2009

What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking tool which permits its users to send and read other user’s updates also known as tweets, which are text-based messages of up to 140 characters in length. Basically, the updates done on twitter are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have [...]

Jobs Market The Irish Recruitment Social Network

May 14th, 2009

Have you had enough of LinkedIN?
Did you fail to understand how to utilise Twitter?
Are job boards not really performing for you as they used to?
Is your web site combined with the traffic purchased from Google AdWords delivering candidates?
Is the Monster CV database just….
Well if you answered YES to all the above, you might be interested [...]

Worky.com

April 30th, 2009

Worky.com is a new Irish Recruitment Social Networking site.
Ireland is a nest for the recruitment sites. Obviously a very small number of the sites work well for the employers in Ireland since the market can only support a certain number. Worky is different, since it is built to be a global recruitment social networking [...]

How Recruiters can use Boolean Searches

April 28th, 2009

Recruitment Article of the Day:
How Recruiters can use Boolean Searches by Pushpa Sreenivasan
By Pushpalatha Sreenivasan: The use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Recruitment has been well documented over the last year or so in this blog. While Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook grab most of the headlines one of the less talked about but most [...]

Free Jobs Advertising for Ireland’s Employers

April 20th, 2009

Recruit Ireland offers Free Jobs Advertising for Ireland’s Employers.
Ireland Inc has not ground to a halt. Despite the current economic uncertainties of businesses across Ireland, new businesses are starting up, some are expanding and vacated positions do need to be filled. But doom and gloom prevails and confidence is low. RecruitIreland.com is combating this [...]