Happy New Year
As 2008 begins, here’s wishing it brings good cheer and happiness in abundance for you and your family.
We want to express our gratitude to all our visitors, friends and readers, because of you we move forward and try our best to make our blog exciting and worth your attention.
January 1, 2008 | Cover Letters | Leave a Comment
I want to work for this company
OK this must be the best company in the world to work for, just read the sign they have on their door (click on the image to see full size). Just think of all the dull corporate companies and dull websites they have. Have as quick look at the thinkgeek about us page.
They have two dogs in the office and even have Web Cams, their company is an innovative cool place to work how many Irish companies are like this.
December 29, 2007 | Advice | Leave a Comment
Well done Irish Life
Just came across the IrishLife recruitment page on their website and low and behold they are using video to trying and fill some Financial Adviser positions. Now I really have to hand it to them on their approach to how to fill jobs for the next generation of tech savvy users and getting away form the boring job spec all on one page.
They even have some employees talking about their roles and how well they are doing, it’s a little bit scripted and I would have liked a more off the cuff approach. But, I have to congratulate them on making the bold move to having video….the first I have come across on any Irish companies website.
So well done Irish Life lets hope the boring recruitment companies and even more boring job board follow suite welcome to web 2.0
View the video : Here
December 28, 2007 | Job market | Leave a Comment
Future of recruiting in Ireland
Over the next few years we’ll see a big change in how Employers hire, it’s already happening in the US where employers use
* Social networks as recruitment tools
* Using blogs to recruit
* The emergence of employer video & audio
I reckon in the not to distance future in Ireland we’ll see the end of the endless list of jobs on job boards (where it’s impossible to find a job) and the likes of Social Networks, Blogs and Video will be take over. The Bebo and Facebook generation will change this in the future I can see an explosion of new Web 2.0 sites in 2008.
November 30, 2007 | Job market | Leave a Comment
Careerbuilder is aiming for $2,000 per job posting
Tony Roy is the managing director of CareerBuilder.co.uk, at a recent conference he said he’d prefer $2,000 job postings.
If he had his way, Roy said, each postings on a job board would be $2,000 or so. He pointed out that that recruitment agencies typically charge 18 to 30 percent of first-year compensation as their fee, and print ads often cost much more than $2,000 … there’s no reason online posting rats shouldn’t go up to $2,000 over time.
Of course there was a bit of flack for Mr. Roy but he reminded the audience that online postings at one time were about $100, and now are in the $450 range.
Time to go buy shares in a jobs website or start one from scratch I think.
November 30, 2007 | Job market | Leave a Comment
New Job Hunting Concept
Here’s a jobs website with a difference, the site Tuglink.com is different because job seekers post jobs instead of companies.
The site allows job seekers tell what kind of jobs they want, and let companies find them. It’s a unique idea and something that could work.
Something I’ve always wondered is why Job board in Ireland don’t have a Jobs wanted section where companies can look up job seekers.
November 21, 2007 | Job boards | Leave a Comment
Job hunting questions
I’m in a Job is it okay to look for a new job?
The simple answer is yes. Maybe you didn’t know this but most people in their twenties will change job every two years and at any given moment 70% of the workforce in Ireland is job hunting. So if your looking for a new job while in your current roll is totally normal.
You do not need to tell your current employer that you are job hunting, it’s common courtesy for a recruiter not to tell the candidate’s current employer and I don’t think I’ve ever come across a case of this happening. But, in some small towns this can happen if anyone asks you at work have you been looking you can say, “I’m always looking. Isn’t everyone?”
October 28, 2007 | Job market, Advice | Leave a Comment
Are you Happy at work?
A quick read of the latest Spherion survey says most of you (and employers) aint ‘getting it’ either.
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Despite a historically low unemployment rate and the beginning effects of a labor shortage, a recent survey shows that many workers say their employers are not taking the necessary steps to retain them. In addition, less than half of the U.S. workforce (43 percent) say they are satisfied with their
current jobs, according to the comprehensive study released today by Spherion Corporation (NYSE: SFN), a recruiting, staffing and workforce solutions provider.
“Our Study indicates some very troubling trends in the employee-employer relationship,” says Roy Krause, Spherion(R) president and CEO. “The workforce is largely dissatisfied with their employers’ efforts on the factors they feel are most important to them and will keep them in their current jobs.”
October 16, 2007 | Job market | Leave a Comment
Next Step in job Hunting
Penelope Trunk has posted 5 way that the job hunt will change, some of her point really struck me as been spot on not just for the American market but really for the Irish market as the economy has changed over the past few years and will change again over the next few years.
1. Companies will make recruiting young employees the top priority.
2. Candidates will drive the hiring process rather than employers.
3. Companies will stop writing stupid ads.
4. The quality match will take centre stage.
5. The workplace will get great.
September 23, 2007 | Job market, Advice | Leave a Comment
Damn I Need a Job
Only in America, this is Larry Dinsmore and Larry is looking for a job so he simple decided to put it on a T-Shirt and walk the streets hoping to get offers.
August 8, 2007 | Videos | Leave a Comment
