Irish Recruiters LinkedIN Group got together in the a form of a Recruitment Conference.
It was great to see so many friends together, thank you all for coming!
We all need to say a BIG: Thank You to Declan Fitzgerald who organised it all again so well!
Pictures? Well this time around I decided I will mail you the pictures – and only the ones you are on! Just put the comment below and I’ll mail you all the photos you are on. I emailed some nice photographs to your mailboxes already, so check there first. This is just out of a respect for all of you who joined us for a pint afterwards. Please no funny faces to the camera anymore! :)
When the world’s largest professional social network is at the same table with the country’s largest jobs site and the largest recruitment agency, all organised by the world’s largest (richest) IT company… it has to be interesting. Even in the extremely sad times like these. 3 out of 2 recruiters have been made redundant in the last 9 months. I guess the room would be fuller if the conference took place a year ago.
What I took from the conference is that the social networks definitely ARE the most important recruitment tools. LinkedIN is the most important although having so slow penetration in Ireland. Less than 150 000 registered, and only a small percentage of that with a useful profile (from the recruitment perspective).
Job Boards still dominating the market but quickly losing their prior historical dominance. Recruitment advertising fees are dropping, and also disappearing with RecruitIreland.com leading that avenue.
Recruitment agencies are changing their offerings and repositioning themselves in the recruitment process. From all we have heard on the recruitment conference and especially on the ‘After Party’ – if you know how to use Twitter to source the candidates, there is a great future for you in recruitment!
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Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. It’s a map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country. The map was built using Alexa and Google Trends for Website traffic data in June 2009 and we think it shows some interesting trends. After all, our world is becoming smaller and it’s good to know what services our friends on the other side of the globe are using to connect with each other.
Recruitment Managers / Recruitment Agencies around the world, dread the following scenario :
Boss ( or Client ) :
” Find me a best sales executive within the next hour ”
Of course, there are thousands of resumes in the hard disk of every recruitment manager, including the resume of that ” best sales executive “ .
Problem is :
It will take 6 days to open / read even a few hundred resumes – let alone a few thousands ! How to find that ” best ” resume in one hour ?
No recruitment manager need worry about such a perfectly reasonable demand !
All she has to do is to download ( free and without login ),
” Resume Rater ”
from almost any website listed on the very first page of Google search-results ( or Yahoo or Bing or whatever ! ).
Then ” rate ” all those thousands of resumes on the hard disk for ” function = Sales “.
The ” best ” sales-executive’s resume will automatically get listed on the TOP of the search results – within a few minutes.
Of course, the Recruitment Manager / Recruitment Agency runs the risk of many more ” reasonable ” demands from the Boss / Client !
Regards
hemen parekh
Jobs for All = Peace on Earth