Job Hunting – Some Tips Effort : Your chances of finding a job will be increased if you put more effort into job hunting. If you are unemployed – treat job hunting as your new full time job from 9 to 5 Monday to Friday . It will get you used to being in a […]
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Skills Shortage in Ireland
A recent survey was carried out of 38 companies and SME’s that together employ in excess of 25,000 people in the IT sector in Ireland. The survey estimates that there are in excess of 4,500 immediate job vacancies in the IT sector in Ireland which are not being filled due to the severely limited supply […]
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Professional Job Vacancies Increasing in Ireland
Professional job vacancies in Ireland rose by 20% in the year ending May 2013 according to a jobs survey by Morgan McKinley. The survey showed there were 9,434 professional jobs available in May 2013, up from 7,890 in May last year. The number of professionals looking for new jobs in May 2013 was 20% lower […]
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Intreo.ie New Jobseekers Service
Intreo is the name for a new agency to support Jobseekers in Ireland. The name seems to come from the fact that it is supposed to be an INTegRated One Stop Shop for Jobseekers. Or it could be to do with the Irish for “Direction” – which is “Treo” . The general idea is that […]
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Skill Shortages in Ireland
There are many difficult to fill vacancies that persist in the Irish labour market. Some of these hard to fill jobs include Specialised posts in the ICT sector (e.g. designers and developers with specific skill sets such as sophisticated database architecture, JAVA related applications, etc.), High-tech manufacturing, mostly biopharma (e.g. chemical and product formulation engineers […]
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Transfering Jobseekers Benefit Abroad
With the current employment problems for many people in Ireland – some of you may be thinking of moving to the UK or elsewhere in the EU to look for work. The good news is that anyone claiming Jobseekers Benefit can continue to get payments from Ireland for up to 13 weeks when you go […]
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Internship Scheme Ireland
A new National Internship Scheme is being launched in July 2011. The new Job Bridge website will show all the available internships – eventually . An internship can be a good way for people to gain experience in a working environment and to gain some relevant knowledge and skills required for a particular career . […]
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FAS Can Make Unemployment Worse
In Ireland a report into how State agencies encourage and assist the unemployed to return to work has found that they can have the opposite effect . The report,by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says that those who are assisted by the State while on the dole were less likely to return to […]
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Work Experience : Jobs in Ireland
The Irish Government “work placement program” is an initiative aimed at providing unemployed people with work experience . Participants in the WPP can retain their social welfare entitlements – but get no pay from the employers. It has not produced great results – and as at the start of May 2010 just over one third […]
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Job Hunting Tips
Some tips for job hunters: Look online – well you’re here – so you are probably doing that anyway. Search by both the town or area and the job title. Repeat your search every day. Use Google Alerts and register with reputable job sites Target companies organisations you’d like to work for. Visit their websites […]
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