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.

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.

Interviews Ireland

Get your CV and Interview Skills up to date and land a job with a great company with exciting opportunities.

A recent study indicated that employers are increasingly spying on personal websites like Facebook to find out what workers are doing. By all reports this investigation is legitimate as the Office of the Data Commissioner has warned employees there is little legal protection if they publish this stuff online.

The survey indicated that 83pc of employers surveyed said they monitored Facebook pages to check the validity of absences, while 67pc said they then disciplined staff.

So if you are going to pull a sickie then wrap up in your duvet and watch some Oprah. Remember to say offline.

Job Interviews Ireland

I was discussing this topic with my neighbor (he works in IT) and he informed me how his company combats internet abuse. It was the old reliable name and shame. If organisations want a potential fix to the problem they might consider this option. Produce a daily or weekly internet usage report and email it to all employees. I might add the report is not on what sites they are visiting but how long they are using the internet. This will be one league table your employees will not want to be top off. Alternatively you could hire people like me – I don’t see the attraction with these networking sites.