HR Articles

Poll: What is the biggest challenge in the current jobs market?

At Morgan McKinley we are interested to hear views and insights on the hiring market from professional job seekers.  We will be publishing poll questions on our website over the coming months to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts on recruitment and hiring issues and trends. Some of the findings of these polls may be used in our marketing communications. We appreciate you taking the time to respond and we hope you find the information on our website useful.

May 2013 Irish Employment Monitor

Key highlights from the May 2013 monitor are as follows:
  • The Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor recorded a month-on-month 5% increase in job availability in May 2013.
  • This was an increase of 20% in the number of new professional job vacancies available in May 2013 compared to the same month last year.
  • The number of professionals looking for new job opportunities increased slightly (2%) from April 2013 to May 2013.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No, it’s our new careers site! 
 
Morgan McKinley have just launched a brand new careers site!
 
The new site is your one stop shop for careers working at Morgan McKinley and to find out everything you need to know about what it’s really like to work in recruitment.
 

Jobs for the boys!

I recruit for HR professionals in Ireland and over the past few years a particular feature of this industry has intrigued me - Why do women dominate the HR scene in Ireland? This is at all levels and across both generalist and specialist roles. 

Spot light on candidates in demand!

Over the past few years I have heard proclamations that the job of a recruiter is soon to become dormant, that technology and social media are going to become the middleman between the hirer and the hired and that the 21st century job centre has definitely gone online.
 

HR -Critical for business success

Personnel, Human Resources….traditionally, it has been seen as a support to a business as opposed to being a commercial strength and leading function. Increasingly, HR plays more of an important role in any organisation and in many respects can be the secret to its survival and success. How so?
 

Silk Purse out of a Sow's ear

A few weeks ago I blogged about the increase in demand for Learning & Development professionals by both foreign and Irish owned business’ One notable trend is the focus that these companies are placing on training and developing staff both on technical knowledge and “soft” skills.

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