Job Websites

2000 Jobs – Installation of Water Meters in Ireland

Water meters are gong to be fitted in maost homes in  Ireland over the next 3 years. That is expected to create about 2000 jobs for water meter installers.
Several companies are offering training courses in water meter installation – but it should be an easy job for any plumber or heating engineer who is looking for work.
No specific vacancies yet- but keep calling back and we will let you know when the job vacancies are advertised.

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 to another EU country to look for a job.

You must be getting Jobseeker’s Benefit for 4 weeks before you can transfer it to another EEA member state. If you apply to transfer your Jobseeker’s Benefit, it will be paid directly to you – (bank account) . You will still be required to register with the employment services of the country where you have gone to look for work within a week of arriving .
You need to get a “Form U2“   from your Social Welfare office and bring it  to the employment  services of the country you are travelling to.
You can get a completed Form U2 from your local social welfare office.

The 13-week period of payment may be extended to 6 months in
exceptional circumstances. Also you may now transfer your JB payment more than once while you are unemployed provided you do not exceed the maximum period of 13 weeks

If you went to the UK without a U2 form – you will probably experience delays in getting UK  Jobseekers Benefits – and when you get it the rates are much lower in the UK.
For example – over 25 Single – UK rate is  £65.45  (about €78 Euro)  The   Irish Rate is €188 Euro – more than double!

Note:  Jobseekers Allowance is not payable outside Ireland – ! You can go on holiday for a maximum of 2 weeks and your Jobseekers Allowance will be paid when you return. You must notify your social welfare local office in advance of taking your 2 weeks holiday. It can also be paid on your return from representing Ireland in an amateur capacity an international sporting event.

Recruit Ireland – Irish Jobs Site Hacked

A major Irish jobs site has had to go offline temporarily because of a data breach.  RecruitIreland.com  say they ” have taken the website offline as a result of a data breach; we are doing everything necessary to have the website back up and running as soon as possible, please bear with us.

As per our security guidelines and structures, we have a process in place for eventualities such as this; when we were notified we shut down the server and the database to prevent any access.

The present indicators are that our database was breached to get email addresses and names for spamming. We shut down access to the site and database at 2pm on Feb 8th and immediately informed the Data Protection Commissioner and the Gardai.

MSD Carlow Jobs

MSD  ( Merck Sharp & Dohme) are opening a new facility in Carlow.
SD Carlow will specialise in the formulation and filling of vaccines and biologics which will help prevent and treat a variety of healthcare conditions.
Operations are due to start in early 2011 and they have plenty of job opportunities for  ….

Production Technicians

Quality Leads

Documentation/Admin/Record

Quality Technicians (Lab)

Quality Specialists

Quality Technicians (components)

Maintenance Technicians

Maintenance Planners

Operations Coach

Manufacturing Trainers

Admin

Material Handlers

LSS Engineers

WFI Engineers

Reliability Engineers

CMMS Coordinators

Validation Engineers

Automation Engineers

All applications have to be made online  – any submitted by post or email cannot be accepted.

Visit  http://msdcarlow.com/  to apply for Jobs

Getting a Job – Top 5 Tips

1. Get back in touch with your old college to see if they have an  job placement scheme. If you’re serious about finding work you should leave no stone unturned.

2. Take some classes. Today’s emphasis on lifelong learning means you need to show you are someone who wants to learn new things.  Anything is better than doing nothing – Sport or exercise can get you fit; practical skills will gain you confidence, languages can widen your world and academic subjects will boost your CV. It can give you a whole new outlook on life and work

3 Think about the future. Some industries, like energy and healthcare, are likely to have huge demands for jobs in future.  Do your research to find out where these gaps will be and if it is an industry that you would be interested in.

4 Create your own job. Consider starting your own business, either consulting for your current field, or doing something entirely new.

5.  Don’t give up. It may take a while, but the perfect job for you is out there. Remember you are not alone, – Many people have been where you are now, and, if you talked to them, they would urge to not to stop. Be clear on what you want, believe in yourself and keep going.

Recruitment Job at EA Galway – Bioware

Job Title : Recruiter – Bioware

Role: HR  -  Location: Ireland – Galway

Description: BioWare, a division of Fortune 500 company Electronic Arts (EA), specializes in delivering the best story-driven games in the world. ( Baldur’s Gate, the Neverwinter Nights , and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
BioWare is currently developing Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game – and  customer support for the  game will be centralized in Galway, Ireland.

Main Purpose of the Role

To manage all the recruitment (strategy & execution) for EA Bioware’s newly established customer service centre in Galway by delivering a high quality recruitment service to customers that provides talent in a cost effective and timely manner.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as the key recruitment point-of-contact for local management & hiring managers, HR and candidates

• Working closely with EA Bioware management and the wider Talent Acquisition team, build a complete end-to-end recruitment framework able to deliver 200 hires in a 6 month period. This includes the creation of an overarching sourcing strategy as well as the design of the assessment/ selection process.

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for all open positions

o Ensure all heads are fully approved before initiating the recruitment process

o Support customers in developing realistic person profiles based on market conditions, and grade & salary constraints

o Develop sourcing/ attraction strategies for positions (one-off positions as well as high volume multiples)

o Manage candidate applications/ submittals efficiently (application acknowledgement, CV screening, rejection, etc.)

o Conduct thorough candidate assessment via phone or in-person interviews

o Manage interview logistics as and when required

o Offer management (approval, negotiation, employment contracts, etc)

o On-boarding

• Establish, build and manage key partnership with external suppliers such as recruitment agencies, job boards, newspapers, etc.

• Manage the candidate experience by ensuring that all candidates have positive interaction with EA Bioware at all stages of the recruitment process

• Positively promote and grow a consistent EA Bioware employer brand

• Track critical recruitment data, and produce regular (and ad-hoc) reports on recruiting activities

• Ensure all open positions are accurately tracked using EA’s world wide recruitment management system

Skills and Knowledge Required

• University degree or equivalent

• Ability to think strategically and act tactically

• Process oriented

• Ability to work in a fast paced, target driven environment and perform well under tight time constraints and changing deadlines.

• Experience of working with senior stakeholders

• Good communicator

• Bright and assertive with the ability to come up to speed rapidly and develop fact-based recommendations.

• Very strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize competing tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Experience Required

• Approx. 5 years recruitment experience combining both in-house and agency

• Solid experience of delivering volume recruitment projects within tight deadlines

• Solid experience of attracting and assessing talent

• Experience of customer service centre or call centre recruitment a massive plus

• Experience of building and managing assessment centers would also be a bonus

Full Details Here

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 and look for employment information – you may find jobs that don’t appear elsewhere .

As well as online – look in local papers and shop windows.   A local paper can still be a useful place to find jobs in your town. We will try and find some jobs from local papers and post them on this site Jobsguideireland.com

Look further afield  don’t be put off by commuting. It can provide time for reading, learning or just thinking.

Aim high and low. Apply for jobs above and below the level you are currently (or were formerly) working at.

Apply to unconventional places. You may assume your local hospital, for example, doesn’t have any jobs you’d be suited to if you aren’t a healthcare worker – but you might be wrong.

Use your contacts when job-hunting wherever they work.

Finding a Job on Twitter

Using Social Media such as Twitter and Facebook to look for jobs or to offer your services is becoming more common. An American who moved to Ireland is looking for work in the area of social media strategy, media, blogging and videography.
We don’t usually post “Jobs Wanted” ads here – but we are breaking the rule this once. See more about John here and follow him on Twitter here .

Galway Administrator for Online Retailer

Office Administrator (Internet Company)

Description:

We are a rapidly growing online retail business, selling products internationally. We are based in Galway. Responsibilities: Wide range day to day of tasks, contacting suppliers, editing data spreadsheets, monitoring and fixing system errors, uploading data to site, pricing of products, editing pictures, calculating sell through rates of products and supply of ads, creating new adverts, data input. Essential competencies – Good PC skills (Excel, word, E-mail, Web browsers); ability to work under pressure and on own initiative; fast and efficient with an attention to detail; ability to work in a team; excellent numeric & analytical ability; excellent communication skills. Working hours and conditions: candidates will be required to work 35-40 hours per week, five days a week (Mon-Fri). Hours are flexible.

Days per week: 5  – Hours per week: 37.5

Daily Hours: 10.00-6.00

Start date: 03/09/2009

Experience Required: No Experience.

Education Requirments:

Educational Qualification(s) Description

1.) Third Level

Minimum Salary : 10.50 ph Euro

Maximum Salary: 13.00 ph Euro

Other Benefits: Remuneration: 10.50 – 13.00 euro per hour, depending on candidate. 4 weeks paid holidays. Paid Bank holidays.

Location : Galway City

Closing Date: 15/09/2009

Please send CVs to hr@trkholdings.com or apply in writing to: TRK Holdings Ltd, Unit 24B-25B, Briarhill Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland.

Jobs Websites in Ireland

While we here at Jobsguide Ireland try and bring you some job vacancies that you might not find elsewhere – we are a small fish in the big sea of recruitment websites in Ireland.
The main recruitment sites in terms of visits according to figures from Google – are : Fas.ie , Jobs.ie, Recruitireland.com, Irishjobs.ie, Loadzajobs.ie
The most visited of those 5 job sites in Ireland, according to Google , is  Fas.ie  closely followed by Jobs.ie with Irishjobs.ie taking third place and Recruitireland just beating Loadzajobs.ie into fourth place.
Google also shows up some interesting results. According to “Google Trends” – during the last 12 months of rising unemployment in Ireland – visits to these main 5 job web sites have fallen.
Google don’t give actual figures – but since peaking around Sept 2008 – unique visitor numbers  to all these sites have fallen since then. Going by the graph supplied on google   visits to these 5 sites have dropped  by as much as 100%  since September 2008.
If the information from Google is correct – it could be caused by one or more of the following factors.

a) Maybe unemployed people are just not looking for jobs and are happy to stay on the dole.
Or
b) People think or know there are no jobs available – so don’t bother looking as much.
Or
c) People may have left Ireland to work elsewhere or have gone back to their home country.
Or
d) Maybe other job websites like this one are attracting more visitors instead o

Other stats from Google – for the search term “jobs”  – show that the number of searches fo the word “Jobs” in Ireland has also not risen in the last 12 months. The number of searches for “jobs” is about the same now as it was 12 months ago. There was a peak after Christmas 2008 – but levels have dropped back and remained about the same since Feb 2009.

Have all the unemployed people stopped looking for jobs?