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Working with difficult people, clients or customers …..

Monday, September 7th, 2009

We all have experienced nightmare clients, customers or work colleagues. This can be a very challenging experience. I found some useful advice online that I though I would share ….. Her is to better working relationships!!

Working with difficult people, whether they are colleagues or customers, is one of the common challenges at work. They can be so distracting and can take up so much of your valuable time. Stop… and then seek to see the world from the other person’s point of view.

See It From Their Perspective

I am not saying that you should agree with them; but at least try and figure out why they are behaving the way they do. People always have a valid reason (to them) for doing what they do.

So you could ask…

“What is the positive outcome you want to achieve by this behaviour?” or words to that effect. At the very least it will make them stop and think and you will probably learn something useful.

New Jobs in Ireland – SuccessFactors, Teleperformance, Olive Safety, Bord Na Móna

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Beneath all the doom and gloom in Ireland there is still a stream of new jobs announcements. This passes by some jobseekers as they are too caught up with the negative jobs news. Below is an outline of 700 new jobs announced in the last week or so. These jobs are across the country and within a number of skills and industry sectors.

240 new jobs in Dublin & Newry with Teleperformance — French call centre operator Teleperformance will create 240 jobs in Dublin & Newry to support grocery chain Sainsbury’s. This positive news follows an announcement earlier this year for 610 jobs at its customer contact centres in Newry and Bangor.

20 new jobs in Dublin with (AMPAC-ISP Group) — America Pacific Corporation will create 20 new jobs in Dublin over the next five years in Dublin following the decision to set up its European HQ in the city. AMPAC-ISP designs and manufactures mission-critical structural components for the European space industry.

100 new jobs in Cork with Olive Safety — A Cork H&S firm plans to create 100 jobs over the next year.

40 new jobs in Dublin with SuccessFactors — Talent management software provider SuccessFactors will establish its European Multilingual Business Centre in Dublin creating 40 high-value jobs in Ireland. The new European Multilingual Business Centre will be located in Dundrum. The European Multilingual Business Centre will service customers in the small and medium-size markets.

300 jobs nationwide with Bord Na Móna — Bord Na Mona are investing in green energy and will create jobs as a result. The jobs will be created in a range of areas in projects such as environmental solution, waste recovery and recycling and new investment in wind and gas power stations.

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Jobs Market

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Social Networking sites like LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, and others started dominating the use of the Internet worldwide.

The Irish Recruitment sector has coped on and the first Irish Social Networking site Jobs Market is rapidly growing in popularity. The Irish Job boards have no answer to a free service offered to everyone from Jobs Market web site. Some job sites have opened up and are offering free advertising to all employers, to try slowing down of the candidates leaving to the social media sites.

Candidates publish their Profiles and even blogs, and Employers publish their Jobs and company profiles and again blog posts. Anyone can connect to anyone, and candidates can decide if to accept the offers to connect from the Employers.

A subscription free site Jobs Market is best positioned to help Irish economy and get the available workforce in contact with the right employers.

Free Advertising for Recruitment Agencies

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I worked in Recruitment for a good number of years and ran a successful agency in Dublin. I know the market very well and understand the challenges facing many agencies in Ireland in 2009.

One trend I have noticed is that agencies are throwing money at online marketing such as google adwords and online job boards in order to ride this period of economic turmoil. Are these giving you the results you need? Why not try a different tool to access the online market?

To cut the the chase – I will offer online advertising for recruitment agencies in the form of a SEO optimised post on their company or a number of SEO optimised job posts. This site has approx 200-250 visitors a day and with a url containing the words “HR” and “Recruitment” and over 100 relevant posts you can be sure the traffic is relevant to your business – quite possibly employers which is what you need!!

Why am I doing this? – Firstly it could benefit our readers as quite a few are looking for jobs but there are many employers who could find benefit in your services. Secondly – after you see the results you will realise that it could be worth the small investment to pay for advertising!!

I would also point out that we have 6 other similar sites with a combined daily traffic of approx 1200 during the week.

I look forward to your replies.

Sales & Marketing Salary Information for Employers

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Are you recruiting sales staff at present?

Below is feedback from a sales salary survey carried out by a leading online jobs board. This will help you pitch salaries enabling you to attract the right staff at the right price.

B2B Sales Salary Guide

Sales Director €76,000 – €111,000
Sales Manager €58,000 – €80,000
Area Sales Manager €50,000 – €67,000
Business Development Manager €43,000 – €59,000
Field Sales Representative €37,000 – €55,000
Retail Sales €37,000 – €47,000
Business Development Executive €36,000 – €52,000
Telesales Executive €25,000 – €34,000
Junior Sales Executive €23,000 – €30,000
Sales Administrator €28,000 – €42,000
Marketing Manager €54,000 – €80,000
Marketing Executive €23,000 – €31,000
Sales & Marketing Executive €36,500 – €49,000
Recruitment Consultant €43,000 – €60,000

IT /Telecoms Sales Salary Guide

Sales Director €76,000 – €112,000
Sales Manager €58,000 – €80,000
Account Manager/Executive €40,000 – €52,000
Technical Sales €48,000 – €59,000
Area Sales Manager €39,000 – €52,000
Sales Representative €38,000 – €47,000
Software Sales €41,000 – €51,000
Telesales Executive €25,000 – €35,000
Marketing Manager €48,000 – €64,000
Marketing Executive €36,500 – €50,000
Sales & Marketing Executive €43,000 – €53,000
Recruitment Consultant €43,000 – €58,000

FMCG Sales Salary Guide

Sales Director €66,000 – €86,000
Sales Manager €54,000 – €60,000
Area Sales Manager €50,000 – €56,000
Business Development Manager €48,000 – €61,000
Field Sales Representative €31,000 – €45,000
Account Manager/Executive €44,000 – €54,000
Sales Executive €39,000 – €52,000
Telesales Executive €23,000 – €34,000
Marketing Manager €52,000 – €66,000
Marketing Executive €44,000 – €59,000
Sales & Marketing Executive €41,000 – €56,000
Recruitment Consultant €32,000 – €39,000

Medical / Pharma Salary Guide

Sales Director €64,000 – €93,000
Sales Manager €50,000 – €68,000
Field Sales Representative €43,000 – €62,000
Business Development Executive €43,000 – €62,000
Technical Sales €39,000 – €57,000
Junior Sales Executive €30,000 – €40,000
Sales Administrator €32,000 – €42,000
Telesales Executive €23,000 – €34,000
Marketing Manager €54,000 – €64,000
Marketing Executive €48,000 – €62,000
Sales & Marketing Executive €33,000 – €44,000
Recruitment Consultant €50,000 – €69,000

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HR & Recruitment Ireland – 2009

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Wishing you a Happy New Year from HR & Recruitment Ireland. We are back after a two week break to bring you relevant HR, Recruitment, Careers and Jobs News in Ireland.

HR & Recruitment Ireland

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Merry XMAS and a Happy 2009 from HR & Recruitment Ireland.

We will be back early January.

HR, Training & Recruitment Survey

Friday, November 28th, 2008

SHL Ireland completed a survey with organisations in Ireland and there were some interesting findings. I have outlined the key points below. As expected there is an air of consolidation and getting more out of existing staff resources through up-skilling and redeployment initiatives.

59pc of companies surveyed indicated that redefining how staff will need to operate was ‘critical’ to 2009 HR strategy.

47.6pc indicated that redeployment of staff as an important strategy to implement in the current economic climate.

67.9pc of companies surveyed indicated that succession planning would be key in identifying who within their organisation would be retrained in 2009.

57.9pc reported cut back of 25pc or less in recruitment, training and development budgets.

16.2pc identified an immediate requirement to cut staff through voluntary or forced redundancy. Is this your organisation? Outplacement Services can support.

44.7pc of organisations surveyed revealing they have no immediate plans to reduce the intake on their graduate/management development programmes.

HR Research – HR Managers & Professionals – Products & Services

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Recent survey trends have just been released which make interesting reading for organisations offering products and services to HR professionals. Survey data was collected in August 2008 and is based on responses from HR related professionals.

Key trends highlighted include the following

64% of HR buyers use the Internet as their first stop when searching for HR related services or products that they are interested acquiring. Interesting they go online even before getting a recommendation from a peer.

In excess of 50% of HR buyers that were surveyed indicated that they use an Internet search engines at least once a week to search for human resources related information. Not surprisingly Google was the most popular search engine.

Research found that the most popular “business” social networking service for HR buyers was LinkedIn.

To me there are no surprises with this research. The internet is now the key marketing medium to target potential customers and Google of the search engine of choice. What is of surprise though is the lack of uptake by product and service providers. Many are making half hearted attempts to embrace online marketing.

For example we gave an opportunity a few weeks back for free advertising on this site in the form of a free post. Did anyone take it up? NO!! Why because they would have to write a short post themselves with fresh content.

You see this site has about 300 visitors a day and you can see from the URL that it has 2 very relevant words “HR” and “RECRUITMENT” so you can bet the traffic includes HR Professionals. The site ranks well for many important key word searches. It’s not rocket science really ……..

Anyway anyone still interested in free advertising and PR I will ask you to visit HR & Recruitment Services

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Ageism, Emigration, Immigration & Skills shortages – Ireland

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Below are some interesting HR & Recruitment related facts about Ireland – Ageism, Immigration, Emigration and Skills shortages in Technology.

Ageism in Ireland

Not only is the government targeting the elderly by trying to wipe out medical cards but it also looks like employers are not treating older workers too well either. The equality authority revealed that their most common complaint in 2007 was age discrimination.

Emigration & Immigration– Ireland 2008

Recent Emigration and Immigration figures should not be a surprise to anyone. Below is an outline of what you should already know. Noone is moving to Ireland, everyone is moving to Australia and those left in Ireland are breeding like rabbits to make up for the reduction in immigrants and increase in emigrants. Certainly on days like this Oz seems a great place to be.

26,000 less immigrants came to Ireland in last 12 months to April 2008 according to CSO

83,800 moved to Ireland down from 109,500

45,000 moved abroad with OZ the most popular destination 11,300 to OZ

Population increased – highest births since 1980 – 72,300

Tech Sector Jobs

The skills gap for the Tech sector has been estimated at 7,000 forcing organisations to look abroad to find new staff. I find this very surprising and would ask – why is facebook moving to Ireland? This gap will get worse as there are fewer grads taking up computer, engineering or technical courses. Probably because they have decided to go to Oz like everyone else.

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