Where do you look?

Tonyandthewhale

I'm looking to fill a sales position and I've spent the last hour or so trawling through monster.ie, jobs.ie, loadzajobs.ie etc etc and before dishing out hundreds of euro on ads willy nilly I thought I'd ask the experts on where to lok

Where do you go first when you're looking for work? Jobs.ie seems to be about 500e (at least that's what they quoted me on the phone) whereas monster starts at 159 euro, is one three times better than the other (or is there another site than needs to be considered)?
As job-searchers is there anything wrong with monster.ie compared to jobs.ie to justify the cost difference as obviously I want any ad I post to reach as many candidates as possible but cost has to come into it too.

So does anyone have any opinions on this?

marley123

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starlit

Trawling through every online recruitment website known to man! Add a profile with my CV on company websites to companies I be interested in. My college careers website even though I have long gone. Handy out that way as local jobs advertised in the same vicinity of the college is handy. Keeps up to date to the latest jobs moreso than recruitment websites. Careers fairs, best thing to do for networking with potential employers and companies you can chat with and for future reference.

LinkedIn and other social networking websites are good for the purpose of job hunting only and not for personal use good that way. Word of mouth, if a friend, friend of friend or someone locally knows of jobs going or someone you know working in a company or business you like to work for then you might ask them for a referral. Constantly update CV and cover letters and tailoring for each job application. Company career webistes, they might have upcoming vacancies. Newspapers are good too if they advertise suitable jobs in classified ads or if they are promoting new jobs being created, I would apply to those companies asap once I know there are suitable jobs on offer for me.

Browsing online completing general searches for jobs on google search engine! Local notice boards good place to look for local jobs. Heavens forbid, FAS website I know I know....but good to look for local jobs!

Advertising yourself and your skills and looking for 'job wanted!' Promoting and selling yourself depending what type of area you are in. The local advertiser be an option or local newspaper classifieds.

Luckily I'm not too old to apply for graduate jobs and graduate programmes. Then again they don't always suit everyone. Otherwise its general part time, full time, unpaid, voluntary, temporary, permanent, internships, graduate type jobs I have applied for in most cities, locally, own county and nearly all over the country. Not gone beyond Ireland though. Have looked at all areas I am qualified for and areas I be interested and good at and branched afield areas outside what I am qualified to do as well as going down and going up a few levels in the job stakes and ladder!

Recently been said I have great work experience that's varied yet stating I haven't enough years of work experience behind me, anyone has said I have great qualifications, I have the qualifications just trying to get a job is hard! Getting interviews no probs but not getting those jobs is a nightmare! I have revamped my CV and have since been told its a very good CV so don't know whats going on.

Have someone professional look at your CV and find a job coach that might help you. Maybe practice pyschometric testing and aptitude tests too. Brush up on interview material and skills too. Its all about selling yourself regardless of where you are searching for a job!

So OP me and you and a lot of others are in the same boat!

Good luck!

harry21

doovdela wrote: »

Trawling through every online recruitment website known to man! Add a profile with my CV on company websites to companies I be interested in. My college careers website even though I have long gone. Handy out that way as local jobs advertised in the same vicinity of the college is handy. Keeps up to date to the latest jobs moreso than recruitment websites. Careers fairs, best thing to do for networking with potential employers and companies you can chat with and for future reference.

LinkedIn and other social networking websites are good for the purpose of job hunting only and not for personal use good that way. Word of mouth, if a friend, friend of friend or someone locally knows of jobs going or someone you know working in a company or business you like to work for then you might ask them for a referral. Constantly update CV and cover letters and tailoring for each job application. Company career webistes, they might have upcoming vacancies. Newspapers are good too if they advertise suitable jobs in classified ads or if they are promoting new jobs being created, I would apply to those companies asap once I know there are suitable jobs on offer for me.

Browsing online completing general searches for jobs on google search engine! Local notice boards good place to look for local jobs. Heavens forbid, FAS website I know I know....but good to look for local jobs!

Advertising yourself and your skills and looking for 'job wanted!' Promoting and selling yourself depending what type of area you are in. The local advertiser be an option or local newspaper classifieds.

Luckily I'm not too old to apply for graduate jobs and graduate programmes. Then again they don't always suit everyone. Otherwise its general part time, full time, unpaid, voluntary, temporary, permanent, internships, graduate type jobs I have applied for in most cities, locally, own county and nearly all over the country. Not gone beyond Ireland though. Have looked at all areas I am qualified for and areas I be interested and good at and branched afield areas outside what I am qualified to do as well as going down and going up a few levels in the job stakes and ladder!

Recently been said I have great work experience that's varied yet stating I haven't enough years of work experience behind me, anyone has said I have great qualifications, I have the qualifications just trying to get a job is hard! Getting interviews no probs but not getting those jobs is a nightmare! I have revamped my CV and have since been told its a very good CV so don't know whats going on.

Have someone professional look at your CV and find a job coach that might help you. Maybe practice pyschometric testing and aptitude tests too. Brush up on interview material and skills too. Its all about selling yourself regardless of where you are searching for a job!

So OP me and you and a lot of others are in the same boat!

Good luck!

Maybe you didn't get the job because you don't read things correctly. The OP want to know where to advertise a job.

They are not looking for one!

Dinkie

I look on irishjobs.ie, company websites and people have contacted me in the past through linkedin about jobs including sales (sales rep jobs).

I also look on the Irish Times on a Friday.

Most people I know use the same methods when looking for jobs, so I would try one of them.

starlit

harry21 wrote: »

Maybe you didn't get the job because you don't read things correctly. The OP want to know where to advertise a job.

They are not looking for one!

Okay...I misread what the OP was saying. I thought the question was more focused on where job seekers search. Anyway. Monster.ie, Irishjobs.ie or FAS be your best bet I think OP to put your job ad on those websites. More Job seekers search those websites for jobs.

dan_d

I'd go for the Irish Times, usually the Indo aswell on Thursdays and Fridays. I use recruitireland.com, irishjobs.ie and lately have been using monster.ie and to an extent an agency website (Hays - can I say that here?) I also use all the college sites, the site of my own professional organisation and any individual company sites I can think of or come across.Like doovdela, I'm applying to every single solitary thing that has even the most tenuous link to what I do/did or could change to.

I will say that I don't really use jobs.ie because it seems to just repost the same jobs over and over again, with the majority being comission-based sales jobs that are entered multiple times, one after the other. This, to be honest, annoys the hell out of me. It's very difficult to weed out realistic job ads in what seems to be a load of rubbish that's designed to catch people's eye, with phrases like "Want to earn 1k a week" and "want to earn up to 50k a year and work from home" everywhere. (needless to say I don't bother looking at them).

That would be my 2 cents on it. I don't know why there's such a difference in price - maybe because Monster is a worldwide site, but jobs.ie isn't?. I also use LinkedIn btw...there are a number of recruiters who link to groups there and advertise their jobs there aswell as on websites.

Probably a combination of the above will work for you, if it's not wildly expensive.