Verify Recruitment launches 'Volunteer With Verify'

Volunteer Ireland and The Wheel to benefit from the initiative which

aims to assist unemployed professionals and Irish Charities

30 September, 2011, Dublin, Ireland: The European Union has declared 2011 the 'European Year of Volunteering' and with so many people out of work, and donations to charities reduced, there is no better time to offer your help and expertise to these organisations. In keeping with this spirit Irish firm Verify Recruitment have launched 'Volunteer With Verify' an initiative aimed at finding experienced professionals willing to provide their skills and expertise to charities.

30th September 2011: Verify Recruitment's initiative - Volunteer with Verify - gets a positive mention by George Hook on Newstalk's The Last Hook radio show.

Listen here to what George Hook says.

For more information see our press release or visit www.verifyrecruitment.com/volunteer.

This week Cathal Grogan, our Managing Director, was approached by The Irish Examiner to provide some insight on the recruitment trends he is seeing in jobs market. He talked in detail with journalist Joe Dermody about the types of roles that companies are recruiting for and focused on executive roles and the levels of pay that these people can expect. This article featured in today's Money & Jobs section and is included in full below clicking 'read more' below.

Yesterday Cathal Grogan, the Managing Director of Verify Recruitment, featured in The Sunday Times in an article written about suicide rates and depression in workers. A trend Cathal has seen is former executives and managers who have lost their jobs are finding it very hard to copy with the jobs hunting and this is having a very detrimental effect on their mental wellbeing. To read the article in full please click 'read more' below.

Procrastination and speculation can do great harm to a business.

Guest post by Barry Wyse, Software Engineering Director, previous senior roles at AOL and Critical Path

In my experience, procrastinating on a decision can lead to a lot pain in the future; whilst hedging bets when faced with two choices can lead to confusion, with the organisation often torn in two. It is far better to make a quick firm decision, the outcome of which can be managed, than to speculate and not decide.

Guest Post by Cathal Grogan, Managing Director of Verify Recruitment and 20 years IT experience

'Agile' can be a great method for software development. If used correctly it can be quicker and more effective than other methods with much less time spent on documentation etc. But, in my experience, organisations who are successful at implementing 'Agile' as an approach to delivering great solutions are those that take the time to understand not only the development community but the new roles, responsibilities and contributions expected of everyone involved in the process, most importantly the expert users.

Last month the renowned Irish business magazine Business Plus released their Tech Trends Survey 2010. Business Plus do a series of very well respected surveys throughout the year that you can find on their website. They look in detail at the trends in each sector and what the following year will hold for Irish companies. 

Read the article from the Irish Times covering the concerns we have raised in relation to the lack of funding from FAS for IT training in Ireland.

We believe the IT sector is vital to the future success of Ireland's economy and have been stressing the importance of ensuring the workforce are trained in the skills needed by the myriad of IT companies that are located here. Again and again we are seeing a worrying trend that international IT companies are finding it difficult to find suitably trained staff, with result that that are having to hire from abroad. This is a trend we are experience first hand and means that Ireland is literally throwing jobs away.

Verify Recruitment launched last in November 2009 and our new approach to IT recruitment with our expert Verify Panel of assessors has quickly got the attention of the media; one of Ireland's most repescted newsaper, The Sunday Business Post, dedicated a it's entire HR page to covering what we were doing including a large photo of Cathal Grogan, our Managing Director who was flanked by key members of the Verify Panel.