Recruitment website- cost ? :O

EPjnr

I've started a new business and want to recruit a manager. Jobs.ie want €495 + vat to advertise ONE job for ONE month. To me this a joke! Can people please advise me on alternative websites and places to advertise?

For the entrepreneurs out there... surely there is room for competition in this market?

Keedowah

Have you tried putting "advertise jobs for free ireland" into google - there are a load of results.

There are tons of job websites out there - again try google or your preferred search engine.

nellyshark

LinkedIn? By referral or by posting in a targeted group?

bigneacy

FAS works well for me. Its free. A lot of good talent out there unemployed & registered with FAS at the moment.

The local newspaper would be ideal. They're not very expensive. Not is the €500 region anyway.

I doubt it would take you a month to find a manager? Is it very specialized?

EPjnr

I have it on bestjobsireland.org and advets.ie now and one other one i can't think of the name of it. I have received 1 cv. Early days yet, just thought they would be flying in.

No its not specailised or hard work.

Anyone that is a good sales person and peoples person and is good with responsibility will be able to the job. I just want to get the best, so ill be quite fussy.

One thing that might put them off is that there is no set wage'. But i'm offering 50% of profits to the successful candidate. Basically Ive financed and set up the business and seen its profitable and now i just want someone to run it, and help grow the business as i'm moving onto my next venture.

PCPhoto

EPjnr wrote: »

I have it on bestjobsireland.org and advets.ie now and one other one i can't think of the name of it. I have received 1 cv. Early days yet, just thought they would be flying in.

No its not specailised or hard work.

Anyone that is a good sales person and peoples person and is good with responsibility will be able to the job. I just want to get the best, so ill be quite fussy.

One thing that might put them off is that there is no set wage'. But i'm offering 50% of profits to the successful candidate. Basically Ive financed and set up the business and seen its profitable and now i just want someone to run it, and help grow the business as i'm moving onto my next venture.

people don't want commission based jobs as sales are generally low - which means after a hard week of work - there could be nothing to show for it.

make a proper wage package - with sales targets and bonuses for targets met/exceeded.

look at it from the potential employee - take the dole (guaranteed X amount of money consistant every week ...or take ajob where you may earn twice...three times ...or half the dole - they would never be able to calculate if they can pay their bills and/or afford rent/food...in my opinion a basic package with good bonuses is the way to do it)

EDIT: no offence but why should you get 50% of profits if they are doing all of the work - because you set up the business .... if you want to be successful with this business you need to give incentives to the manager - a decent wage is the most important thing at the moment and guarantee's of payment for at least 12months..... if you are handing the running of the business over to someone make sure you trust them enough not to copy your business model and get it written into their contract that they are not allowed to copy/join any other similar ventures in the event of termination of contract.

Herbalist

+1 for linkedIn. A friend recently advised me that when she was looking for work she was really surprised at how useful the website was and how much information she recieved on potential roles from connections from the site.

gavney1

EPjnr wrote: »

I've started a new business and want to recruit a manager. Jobs.ie want €495 + vat to advertise ONE job for ONE month. To me this a joke! Can people please advise me on alternative websites and places to advertise?

For the entrepreneurs out there... surely there is room for competition in this market?

I have used bestjobs.ie but only got one or two responses

We have used jobs.ie a few times. Had the opposite problem - too many responses!

But 495eur +VAT for 1 ad is way way too much

I pushed the saleswoman in jobs.ie for a better price than what she originally quoted (which was originally better than 495+vat anyway). She rang me back with a better price (about 30% less) within about an hour. I said I wanted a better price again - and she gave me a further reduction, so I think it was in the end about half what she originally asked for.

Moral of the story - push them for a better price. Jobs.ie have very low costs. the 495 is really an overinflated asking price. They won't lose anything by giving it to you for 100 euro (except that you might tell others, like me). Jobs.ie are just one of those companies with very low costs that have ridiculous asking prices in the hope that they'll snare the odd sucker. But once pushed, they offer a better price straight away.

Oh, and by the way, 1 month may be too long. I put up an ad recently (just a basic office clerk job at 10eur ph) and took it down after about 4 days as had over 500 applications! So, if you ask for 2 weeks or 1 week you might be able to get them down in price to 100 or so

chrisp2281

gavney1 wrote: »

I have used bestjobs.ie but only got one or two responses

We have used jobs.ie a few times. Had the opposite problem - too many responses!

But 495eur +VAT for 1 ad is way way too much

I pushed the saleswoman in jobs.ie for a better price than what she originally quoted (which was originally better than 495+vat anyway). She rang me back with a better price (about 30% less) within about an hour. I said I wanted a better price again - and she gave me a further reduction, so I think it was in the end about half what she originally asked for.

Moral of the story - push them for a better price. Jobs.ie have very low costs. the 495 is really an overinflated asking price. They won't lose anything by giving it to you for 100 euro (except that you might tell others, like me). Jobs.ie are just one of those companies with very low costs that have ridiculous asking prices in the hope that they'll snare the odd sucker. But once pushed, they offer a better price straight away.

Oh, and by the way, 1 month may be too long. I put up an ad recently (just a basic office clerk job at 10eur ph) and took it down after about 4 days as had over 500 applications! So, if you ask for 2 weeks or 1 week you might be able to get them down in price to 100 or so

I can guarantee you that you did not pay €100 for a job posting

contentking

chrisp2281 wrote: »

I can guarantee you that you did not pay €100 for a job posting

And you would be right as he said about half :rolleyes:

I pushed the saleswoman in jobs.ie for a better price than what she originally quoted (which was originally better than 495+vat anyway). She rang me back with a better price (about 30% less) within about an hour. I said I wanted a better price again - and she gave me a further reduction, so I think it was in the end about half what she originally asked for.