Jobs and Online Job Sites

Ireland offers employment as we head through 2007. You can visit for a short vacation and check the papers and make the calls yourself. Or, you can check out the online job sites. There are roughly 450 job placement agencies in Ireland and many of them offer online recruiting services.

I've spent hours and hours trawling through tons of these job sites. A bunch of them are crap - advertising nothing but themselves. Most have only a half dozen jobs online.

Bunches are designed terribly with vast graphics and horrendous download times or the barest job description without any further information. Yuck.

One warning: 90% of all Irish jobs being advertised online are in Dublin. Dublin has 40% of the country's population, but it absolutely dominates all placements in Ireland. Dell and Apple and Compaq-Digital are big employers in Limerick, Cork, and Galway respectively, but the vast majority of openings are Dublin based.

According to these sites, what most employers want - before skills, or enthusiasm, or any other quality - is experience. The more experience the better.

Resumes are called CV's over here from the Latin "Curriculum Vitae" - The Course of Life.

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