Recruitment & Employment
“You call that hagglin’?” – on salaries and negotiation
For anyone who has seen the movie “Life of Brian,” the haggle scene has to be one of the funniest: Life of Brian – Haggle At the end of the recruitment process, there is the inevitable offer. Do companies ‘lowball’ (ie offer less to see what they can get away with) candidates in a tough [...]
LinkedIn Groups and work with Life Science Recruitment
Firstly, we’d like to wish all readers, clients and candidates a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Here’s hoping that 2012 brings a lot of good news for our little green isle. As huge fans and heavy users of LinkedIn, we utilise it’s various features a lot. One of these is groups. We have, in fact, [...]
Thoughts on advertising salaries
This is a slightly expanded version of the Sunday Times article (9th Oct) that we featured in. On a side note, ca. 12% of the jobs we advertise contain detailed information on the salary range on offer. “The need for good staff has never being more important and companies are going to greater lengths to [...]
Europass CVs – don’t go there!
A brief word on Europass CVs, as we receive these formats from many EU candidates, mostly from PL / IT / ES it seems. For the Irish market, however, it may be useful to point out that these CVs don’t serve their purpose well. They are too rigid, aren’t attractive and don’t serve any real [...]
Making your CV stand out
Tweet There are a number of tools which can make your CV stand out in an ever-crowded job seeker marketplace: QR Codes A QR (quick response) code is a 2d barcode which can be read by smartphones (e.g with Neoreader App) that automatically brigs the user to an intended site. It can be easier than [...]
What’s Hot – May
In by the skin of our teeth for May! April was missed but purely because we’re so busy. The other guys in the office have trouble with the Blog button on their internet…. This month there seems to be a huge focus on the Commercial side of things according to recent jobs. Sales Agent – previous experience [...]
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