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Loadzajobs.ie is dead

After a few years the recruitment website Loadzajobs.ie, run by a large newspaper publisher in Ireland – Independent News and Media, have disappeared from the web. What replaced it is jet another recruitment web site. It is called FindaJob.ie. Recruiters used to call the old one ‘Loadza’ form Loadzajob.ie, so I am getting this new […]

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Advertised jobs numbers comparison

Here is a list of jobs advertised on the leading Irish job sites and the recruitment agency web sites. Job Boards Irish Jobs 12253 Recruit Ireland 3350 Monster 2969 Jobs 2800 Irish Times 1883 Employ Ireland 1339 Recruitment Agencies CPL 1340 Brightwater 1291 Morgan McKinley 1178 Sigmar 671 Stelfox 627 Grafton 228 Manpower 183 Irish […]

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Blogs

Interview Questions: Tell me about yourself

According to the Monster Jobs Site, the most used interview question is: Are you ready to answer the Tell me about yourself question? If not, you should prepare the answer for that most common interview question. Here is the advice from Monster Jobs Site: Tell me about yourself – This is usually the opening question […]

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Job Site Jobs LinkedIN Recruitment SEO Social Networks

Jobs.ie and EmployIreland.com on the raise

Jobs.ie and EmployIreland.com are the only two web sites that recorded a growth of the unique visitors numbers during September this year. According to Complete who collects the public data, as opposed to the marketing messages from the job boards, Irish Jobs, RecruitIreland and Monster both recorded a significant drop of traffic during September 2009. […]

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Internet Job Site Recruitment Social Recruitment

Costs of Jobs Advertising

Irish recruitment websites fall into two groups. First advertise their prices online and others do not. I always wondered why is that? Here are the prices from the Irish job sites for a single job advertising: RecruitIreland.ie – €99 Monster – €99 EmployIreland – €149 (includes CV Database) LoadzaJobs – €280 Jobs.ie – €390 Irish […]

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Job Site Jobs Recruitment Social Recruitment

EmployIreland.ie Looks to Rebound in Tough Job Board Climate

Since the economy bottomed out and took scores of Irish jobs with it, purveyors of job boards have seen corporate customers curb or cut contracts at the same time they’ve dealt with an influx of résumé postings from the newly unemployed. More companies also are adding job postings and career centers to their Web sites, […]

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Resumark: CV, Jobs, Free!!!

Resumark brought in a nice new business model in the online recruitment industry. The concept is essentially borrowed from the Google AdWords – Google AdSense model. While Google pays the web site owners to show the Google AdSense on their sites and charges the Google AdWords clients to pay per click for those same adverts […]

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How to use Twitter for Recruitment?

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 […]

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Career Internet Jobs LinkedIN Recruitment

Worky

Worky is a Recruitment Social Network. Kind of like LinkedIN, but a few years later. Worky has no people in it jet, but has the pricing model – a bit steeper than LikedIN. What is wrong here: RecruitIreland goes FREE and in the same month Worky is goes live more expensive than LinkedIN, that Irish […]

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Internet Jobs Recruitment

Recruiting Blogs: Social Networking and Jobs Board

Posted by Ivan Stojanovic | www.JobsBlog.ie on October 13, 2008 at 3:43pm View Original Blog Post on Recruiting Blogs Delete Post Manage Blog If you would be given a chance to create your own recruiters profile on Monster or any other job board, would you do it? The profile would be your page on that […]

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SnazzyJobs

I guess some people will say I like writing about the Irish Jobs boards. The funny thing is that there is so many popping out, it is almost every week you hear about a new one. This is just in the last month or so: TheJobs.ie, JobisJob.ie, Jobs2do.ie aka Spamers, Monster Finance, urHired So here […]

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CV Magnet or how NOT to advertise a job?

What do you do when you purchase too many job slots on a job board? You use them and fill with the duplicates of the jobs you need to fill or write a generic job spec for the type of the jobs you are hiring for, and publish those. Duplicates, Duplicates, Duplicates… The advantage in […]

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After Recruitment?

Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is furthering his goal of taking newspaper services online with Tribute.com, a website for the bereaved. Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you’ll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a […]

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LinekdIN Recruiter

LinekedIN has a really slow take-up in Ireland. Irish recruiters are only recently being less ‘glued’ to the traditional job boards like Irish Jobs, and started embracing into the modern recruitment methods. LinkedIN is the most common place all the recruiters went to in a search for a new candidates. The problem that happened is […]

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Interview

Interview

If you use Google.ie to find information about the interview, you will be simply amazed with the amount of the ‘suggestions’ you will get. There are whole sections of the the huge web sites dedicated to give you the endless tips and advices. This is a sample search result for the ‘interview’ from the About.com […]