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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.

For those of you targeting these jobs it is important to market yourself and sell yourself. CV Writing Services can enhance your CV and help you stand out in the crowd. Interview Techniques Preparation can help you deliver at interview and land job offers.

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Recruitment Agencies – Can’t Win

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Recruitment Agencies – Can’t Win

Agencies are getting a terrible time from jobseekers in the current market place. I know there have been some dodgy operators about over the years with poor quality and customer service skills but reaction of many jobseekers is over the top in this marketplace.

Advice for jobseekers for dealing with agencies…..

Agency employment figures have been slashed by up to 60% which means that there are less consultants to manage what can be described as an avalanche of CV’s.

Recruitment agencies have less jobs and in some cases no jobs. This means that they need to spend their time trying to find them. This involves canvassing companies who on the most part don’t need them the attract candidates in this market.

Tips

Avoid speculative CV’s to agencies as it is like throwing your CV into outer space. Try to target agencies who have specific jobs.

If you are not getting a call back don’t get mad – move on to the next application. If the recruiter spoke to and replied to every jobseeker they would not have time to try and get jobs in.

Try more proactive job search strategies – to me using recruitment agencies is lazy job hunting in this market. Yes you have to cover the recruitment agency strategy BUT there is much more that you can do.

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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.

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WORKY.COM – will it worky for Irish Jobseekers?

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

A new site worky.com has been launched. You can’t miss the advertisements on TV and radio. My question is – “why does an online site have to advertise offline?” Did you ever see a facebook or linkedin advert on the TV. Obviously these guys have alot of marketing spend. Anway read how they feel this site will help ……

Candidates

No more dark ages of the job boards

When everybody first started using the internet it was a novelty to see jobs from the newspapers online. It gave us all a buzz applying for a role online using the “world wide web”.

And for a couple of years that model of offline or “newspaper” style job adverts stuck up on the internet kept us happy in the dark

But not for long…

Very soon it was endless lists of jobs and endless lists of job boards, sites boasted about how many jobs they had but candidates only wanted one job and so lost heart..

Did the agency or the company get my application?
Did my application fall into a big black hole?
Who is looking at my application?
Do they like my application?
Can I not see a bit more about where this job is before I apply?
Don’t they want to know my preferences before we get off the first block?
For employers and agencies it became heartache too
Why can’t I find suitable matches?
Why do so few applicants match what I’ve asked for?
Which job board do I use?
Do these job boards spend anything on advertising?
Which one actually engages with the mainstream everyday candidates?

Along came the Upload your CV era – but full of broken promise

For candidates

Who is looking at my CV?
Is it still live?
Do I have any control?
It’s too complicated and it’s not anonymous!
Can my boss see my name or our company name?

For Employers

Employers grew tired of seeing that 1458 people matched their job
Grew tired of keyword searches where the man who sold java coffee was matched against 1000s of java programming jobs

At last Worky…

Not a job board
Not an upload your CV mechanism

For candidates a place to create your own individual online skills profile and have it seen by every employer for free in the safe knowledge that it is anonymous until you see that they may have a role to suit. A place where once you upload your profile, you can job-hunt while you sleep.

For Employers A place to copper fasten the skills you want in an employee, a place where you can see with ease who matches your job financially, geographically, by skills and by work experience to name but a few. A place for employers to see first if there are matching candidates before committing to pay

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Job Hunting & Interviewing in Ireland

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

I read an interesting article online today about sure ways to annoy a hiring manager during the job hunting process from applications, sending CV’s through to the actual interviews. I have listed the points and some of my comments after ….. some of these are so no brainer!!

1. Applying for jobs you are not qualified for. (From a jobseekers perspective you have to try …. certainly in a skill shortage market)

2. Sending generic cover letter’s. (Absolutely agree – you won’t get called for interview in a tough job market)

3. Seen-it-a-million-times Objective on your CV “challenging opportunity with a forward-looking company where I can utilise my knowledge, experience and skills to our mutual advantage.” (You can forget about these right now – worst start possible to a CV – no point!!)

4. Making your CV a list of past duties. (You have to make an impact and include achievements!!)

5. Lie or exaggerate about ANYTHING (Are all CV’s not self promoting documents. In fact most hiring managers expect some lies on a CV. I have to agree with this point though …. do a CV well and you don’t have to lie)

6. Keep making repetitive “notice-me” calls to ask if your CV was received. (Yes this can be harassment – one call or ideally call before you send it)

7. Slow response to messages left on your answering machine or voicemail. (You obviously don’t need the job if this is the case)

8. Lack of flexibility for phone-screening interviews. (Previous comment)

9. Not providing salary requirements when requested prior to the interview. (If asked provided – if don’t have one then let employer know your current salary)

10. Fail to research the company prior to the interview. (No brainer!!)

11. Arrive at your interview late. (Previous comment)

12. Rude to the receptionist. (especially if the person at reception is on the interview panel)

13. “See attached CV” instead of filling application completely. (Lazy!!)

14. Lack of interview preparation. (EHHHH!!! – forget about annoying the hiring manager – you are wasting your time attending interview)

15. Ask “What’s in it for ME?” type questions at the interview. (Well “me” is part of the process so you can ask these questions but just disguise them)

16. Fail to send a thank-you letter after the interview. (not that common in Ireland BUT nice touch!!)

17. Call for update before decision date (this is a number one annoyance – don’t do it)

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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.

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Training & Education – Importance of Education & Qualifications

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Through my work I come in contact with two groups – those with no or little qualifications and those who go to third level directly from secondary. I have observed individuals from both groups who have not progressed in their career.

I often ask – why?

My theory is as follows ……

When I was growing up the importance of qualifications was drilled into me by teachers, family and peers with comments like “if you don’t have qualifications you will end up in a dead end job” or “get a degree and you will be successful”. The unfortunate thing is that many believe these comments. Those without qualifications accept lower level jobs and never seek to better themselves because they believe it is not possible. Equally there are those you get a degree and enter the working world with a “made it” sign without realising that they must actually do some hard work.

Therefore my stance on qualification is as follows – you don’t need qualifications to be successful (don’t believe me – well some of the most successful people in the world will vouch for this). Qualifications will open more doors though BUT once you get through that door you have to actually work hard to earn success.

Attached is a link for MS Office training – again this will not guarantee success but it will enhance your CV and perhaps open more doors.

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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

Marketing Ireland – Business Growth & Marketing Consultants – Sales Training

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Civil Service cannot cope with high unemployment

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

It seems that the drastic rise in unemployment figures is causing a strain on resources within the Civil Service. 115 staff have already been assigned to the dole offices to cope with backlogs. It is now expected that more staff will need to be assigned. The total unemployed in Ireland has now hit 277,200 and delays in processing new claims can be up to 8 weeks. This is incredible that those losing their jobs have to wait this long for financial support. When you consider that many losing jobs have no other form of financial support to get by. According the Brian Cowen this strain on the dole offices will get worse as he expects unemployment figures to exceed 300,000 to at least 320,000 meaning an additional 70,000 job losses in 2009. Some politicians believe that this figure is conservative.

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Outplacement Services by Recruitment Agencies

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I offered some free advertising on this site for Recruiters or HR Service providers. One thing I didn’t clarify was that direct competition would not get a look in. As we offer Outplacement Services those seeking to advertise similar services need not apply.

Anyway I received little response BUT was surprised that the small response was all from Recruitment Agencies who were seeking to advertise outplacement and career services. Sign of the times I guess.

Now I am not anti-agency providing these services as many commentators are. I am actually from an agency background some moons ago and I realise that there are many skilled professionals in the recruitment sector with qualifications and experience to support organisations and employees through redundancy. I know of many professionals who have moved from recruitment into outplacement and career services very successfully (again including this writer). BUT there is a distinct difference between those professionals in that they chose and were not forced to.

The questions I ask are:

“How committed are recruitment agencies to Outplacement & Career services?”

Possessing the ability and capability is one thing but the commitment is another. Having discussed this with some agencies they have no more interest in Outplacement or Careers and this is purely for income generation during a tough recruitment market. Once the market picks up the interest will subside. One particular agency left a post on this site advertising Outplacement services. When I visited their website there was no mention of these services. One other agency I read about “had been thinking of this for some time” – really!!

“Can you be a recruiter and give impartial Career & Outplacement advice?”

This is a 50 million dollar question. If a sales professional affected by redundancy is telling the recruitment consultant offering outplacement support that the want a career change. What will the recruiter do/ how will they respond when they have an open vacancy for sales which this sales professional would fill in a heartbeat. Tough one!!

Anyway – any views on this please post.

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