How to Successfully Conduct Phone Interviews
Phone interviews are an increasingly useful tool for recruiters and hiring managers. Learn how you can use them to streamline the recruiting process and find ideal candidates.
Exit Interviews – effective next steps
Exit interviews are a helpful way of getting valuable insights into how your staff feel about working in a business. We’ve previously examined why and how you should hold exit interviews with staff leaving your business. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how you can make the most of the information you gather to inform and shape the hiring of new staff and the retention of current employees.
Introducing the Jobs.ie Gender Bias Decoder
Are you missing out on the best people for your business because of gendered language in your job adverts? To support your hiring and back your efforts to build an inclusive workplace, we have launched the Jobs.ie Gender Bias Decoder. This free tool reveals the unconscious gender-biased words in your job adverts and suggests alternatives, ensuring your jobs are open to the widest possible pool of talent.
How and why to promote employee wellbeing
You hear a lot about health and wellbeing at work these days, but what does it mean, and why does it matter? Health and wellbeing at work encompasses staff’s physical and mental health and can assist people in developing and maintaining a positive attitude toward their job, colleagues and the wider business.
Demand for hospitality staff unrelenting
Ireland’s summer season is well underway, and the demand for talent in hospitality is unrelenting. Our analysis of job posting data over the last three months shows that jobs in the industry are up 60% compared to the same time last year and have grown 18% compared to the first three months of 2022. The hospitality sector’s rebound from Covid is almost complete, with jobs now within shouting distance of their pre-pandemic levels.
New laws passed on sick pay and payment of tips
New laws have recently been passed in the Oireachtas which will change how employers manage staff in relation to two key areas – sick pay and the payment of tips & gratuities.
How your staff can help you hire
People are the key to the success of any business, and many smart employers are using the power of their staff to support their hiring. By creating what’s known as an employee advocacy strategy, businesses can empower their people to play a key role in raising awareness of their brand online.
What is happening in the job market?
Recruitment levels have been extremely unstable throughout the pandemic, and macroeconomic factors such as the conflict in Ukraine and the rise of inflation are still having a huge impact on the market. We take a quick look at what trends we have seen and take a look at how they may play out in 2022.
Why exit interviews are a good idea
Exit interviews are a useful way of getting valuable insights into how your staff feel about working in a business. Often, when employees hand in their notice, they can be pretty coy about what motivated them to find another job. But, whatever their reason, it’s good for employers to get meaningful feedback from departing employees. Their insights and experience can help you head off problems and hopefully retain your staff in future.
Introducing Jobs.ie Global Hiring
You can now recruit the best talent from outside Ireland as easily as you do at home, thanks to Jobs.ie Global Hiring.