Recruitment: From Outbound To Inbound

Recruitment is evolving – slowly perhaps – but it is evolving.  But the pace of evolution is matching neither the speed at which growing and successful companies skills needs are evolving nor the speed at which the drivers, expectations, and motivations of candidates are changing.  For companies, new roles have emerged and continue to emerge… [Read More]

Employer Branding And Celebrating Your Team

“We rise by lifting others” As more Unicorns come into being and startups receive more and more seed funding to challenge the established players in the tech market, employer branding is a key facet for companies of all sizes when looking to attract and retain the best employees. It is an extremely competitive market. In… [Read More]

Podcasting for Employer Branding and Recruitment

  "A brand is worthless if it doesn’t connect with the right audiences in a relevant way." Rise of podcasting The first podcast, or rather audio blog post, OpenSource by Christopher Lydon in 2003 started an evolution that is only just reaching its culmination now. It was a simple RSS feed of Audio Files which… [Read More]

5 Tips For Building Trust In Your Local Technical Community

With more and more international technology companies setting up in Ireland and even more Irish based technology companies scaling up, one of the challenges these companies face is introducing their employer brand into the local technical community. Establishing trust and credibility in order to engage with the technical community should be a priority for them… [Read More]

Employer Brand Vs Employer Reputation

What happens when your employer brand is actually the trailer for Prometheus? In an increasingly competitive market, convincing candidates to join your company is incredibly challenging.  Convincing them to stay is equally challenging. As hiring companies recognise the difficulties of attracting talent, concepts that in the past may have been thought of as implied or… [Read More]

GDPR And Managing The Recruitment Process

Some time has passed since the GDPR regulations came into effect, and following the flurry of e-mails asking for contact consent and informing people of changes to privacy policies flooding peoples’ inboxes, now would be a good time to revisit the ways in which these vital changes to personal data processing have affected the recruitment… [Read More]

Back to Front 1.0.6 – Lean

In the series “Back to Front” our consultant Eoghain looks at the latest developments, releases and news in technologies from (you guessed it) the Back-end to the Front.  In the latest installment, Eoghain talks us through lean principles.  Agile Methodologies: Lean Part 1: Lean principles In this blog, I’d like to continue to look at… [Read More]

GDPR & Recruitment: First Contact

A Compliant Approach To Finding New Candidates The adoption of the GDPR guidelines is of particular focus at present prior to its formal adoption and compliance date of May 25th. With less than two weeks left of the final countdown, countless businesses and industries are preparing to ensure that they are compliant and ready to… [Read More]

How Can I Protect My Data In The Recruitment Process

Our blog provides some advice and guidance on protecting your personal data through limiting the information you provide and even going as far as obstructing third parties from editing the presentation of your data. As data, privacy and GDPR are the topics of the moment, this blog is an initial step into these areas and… [Read More]

A Changing Landscape: From The Valley To The Slopes To The Docks

For years the place that has been eponymous when anybody mentions tech companies is Silicon Valley. Home to companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, LinkedIn etc. and with a thriving tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem it has been held aloft. However, in recent years there has been another location that has been gaining traction and producing some… [Read More]