Archive for February, 2009

RocketJobs.ie selects Primary Position as SEO partner

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Dublin based RocketJobs.ie is delighted to announce that it is partnering with Primary Position, the Limerick SEO specialists, for SEO services. Primary Position was selected after an extensive process which Primary Position emerged from as the front runner despite being the only non-Dublin based firm considered. “Primary Position’s innovative partnership approach was a refreshing departure from the norm which we felt really showed an interest in our business” said Derek Hardiman, RocketJobs founder.

Primary Position will be working to increase visitors to the site which is already growing in popularity by raising its profile and expanding the site’s visibility. “We are specialists in Search Engine Optimisation and this is our sole focus. We have used SEO to successfully grow our own company since 2003 and we’re looking forward to implementing our SEO strategy with RocketJobs.ie to further build upon the site’s traffic” said David Quaid, the lead consultant with Primary Position. “This will be a big project that will involve our consulting team for at least 12 months but we have no doubts that we will deliver on every one of RocketJobs’ expectations” he added.

About RocketJobs.ie
RocketJobs.ie is an industry wide jobs site focussed on making the search and application process as easy and as quick as possible for job seekers. With a number of the major agencies already on board RocketJobs.ie is poised to increase the number of roles on the site significantly in the coming weeks. With a continuous attention to improving the user experience of the site RocketJobs.ie has recently released the first Twitter job search capability in the Irish market, with more social networknig features to follow in the short term.

More information is available on our site and our blog.

About Primary Position
Primaryposition.com is Ireland’s leading provider of Search Engine Optimisation solutions. Founded in 2003, Primary Position has optimised websites for over 200 national and international clients in every industry and market. Primary Position delivers a fully managed and measurable SEO service to all of its clients.

More information available on our site or on our blog.

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Search RocketJobs with Twitter!

Friday, February 27th, 2009

With the continuing rise of Twitter in Ireland and some great examples of how if can be used effectively for “real stuff”, like twitter.com/twecipe (hats off to twitter.com/niallharbison for leading the way), we are introducing job searching via Twitter. Here’s how it works:

  1. Follow twitter.com/rocketjobs
  2. If we’re not already following you we’ll auto-follow you back
  3. Once that’s done you can send a direct message to rocketjobs like this:   D java developer
  4. We’ll DM you back with some results like this “Try this - Senior J2EE Software Developer  (http://www.rocketjobs.ie/job/1288)“

Why use direct messages? Well, we don’t think you want the world to see what jobs you’re searching for! If you do a regular tweet to twitter.com/rocketjobs it’ll just be ignored and hopefully the rest of the Twitterverse will cast a blind eye too.

We hope you like this new capability and we’d love to have your feedback or ideas on how it might be made better. We’re working on some enhancements already and hope to have these available for you soon. We’re also planning on adding some more Web 2.0 features generally, but in the meantime enjoy and spread the word like only Twitter can!

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SR Technics announce 1,100 job losses

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

While it was expected, given the way meetings were called with management and staff in the last day or so, it has just been annouced that 1,100 jobs will be lost at their facility at Dublin airport. No details on the timeline for redundancies were provided, but union representatives said that they expect some staff could be redundant within a month. More details are expected to materialise through the coming hours and days. RTE’s coverage on the situation is available here

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Sonru changing how we do interviews?

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

SiliconRepublic has an interesting article this morning on Sonru, an Irish start-up working in the video interview space. Their idea is that the cost of interviewing people (getting people lined up to do the interviews, get meeting rooms, travel time for candidates, etc.) can be drastically reduced, particularly in the first round, by doing it by video.

This isn’ t a case of you doing a video conference. Instead when you apply for a job you may get sent an email from the employer or agency with a link to go and do an interview. You are provided with a list of questions and in some cases a time limit to answer the questions and a closing date for submitting your interview which you record with your webcam and then submit.

This is definitely an innovative approach and in the current market it will make employers’ lives easier but I don’t think it will be embraced so quickly by job seekers. Am I wrong? Having said that, right now though it’s an employer’s market so you don’t really have a whole lot of choice if you want the role. So, if you get a video interview request remember to check for the spinach between your teeth before you hit “send”!

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Taxback.com creates 100 new jobs

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Well, at last there’s some good news out there! RTE is reporting here that Taxback.com is creating 100 new jobs across marketing, sales and accounting in Dublin, Cork and Kilkenny over the next two years. Fair play to Emily Tully and others for getting the word out on Twitter earlier this morning.

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