Minister Bruton to deliver address at the Jobs, Skills & Education Fair & Idea Generation Bootcamp Friday 17th May in Mount Lucas Training Centre, Derrycricket, Daingean, Co. Offaly from 10am – 2pm.
Another great opportunity for local Midland Job-seekers to meet local employers face-to-face and talk to them about their local opportunities.
For full details check out the Westmeath LEO web page.
The newly redesigned Midlandjobs website offers our employers a unique opportunity to really sell their Midlands based employment. The uploadable areas of the site, such as the Company Profile and the Job Post area allows employers to add promotional material such as picture files and video. Pictures tell a thousand words, video sells a whole story.
The benefit of this to employers is very simple. At a time when it is increasingly difficult to track down and engage the “exact fit” candidate for our increasingly niche roles, there is a massive advantage in being able to reach out and “promote” the excellent employment you offer.
Companies often don’t have staff in-house to properly develop images, photos, graphics, video and so on tailored to promoting your actual employment. Midlandjobs can now offer this to employers for the development of their careers page. This means you are putting your best foot forward when it comes to attracting in the right talent for your pivotal jobs.
This new aspect to our service therefore consists of the following:
Combined with our new targeted Midlandjobs’ social media campaign for pushing out our job content, we consider these to be two compelling new reasons for local employers to list their job vacancies on Midlandjobs.ie. They give our employers the competitive edge on attracting the best talent to the Midlands.
The world of International recruitment is changing by the hour. By now, International job candidates will already be thinking very carefully about where they want to locate themselves post-Brexit. In recruitment terms, in December 2018, we’re already in the run up to this game-changing #Brexit. Migrant job-seekers could #indeed represent a massive opportunity for Midlands employers.
Here, demand is once again out-stripping supply for specialised skills. Some skilled roles can often be pivotal to a business operation. If vacancies in such positions can not be filled quickly, there can be potential implications for the financial health of a company, as well as for the very future career prospects of it’s staff.
Which makes it all the more astonishing at this time of a global #WarForTalent, why any modern civilised country would effectively want to shut their doors to sources of the scarce skills which often migrant workers offer. In fact, it is difficult to see how there is any business case whatsoever for not seeking more inward migration. Thankfully, the Irish system is actually increasing the numbers of work permits it issues from year to year and has recently had the good sense to set about reviewing it’s procedures to be better able to respond to skills shortages. Ireland also seems to have a very good track record of integration of populations from overseas countries and this is certainly evident in day-to-day life in the local Midlands towns with different nationalities living in relative harmony thankfully.
Midlands employers could and should position themselves to benefit from the change in the Geo-Political atmosphere in Britain, the US and other countries inexplicably turning their backs on sought after skilled immigrants. In fact, it can not be highlighted enough that Ireland will be the only English speaking country within the EU post-Brexit. The chances are the isolationist political mood of populism will fairly quickly be found out to be flawed and will probably even be reversed soon enough. But until such time, Irish [Midlands] employers with skills requirements should take swift advantage of other Global regions lack of HR foresight.
As the very excellent, recently launched Invest Mullingar website very clearly points out, we are very well positioned in the Midlands to attract overseas staff ,with far more affordable accommodation than Dublin, yet within striking distance of the Capital and Dublin Airport. The message is a very simple one – The Midlands is [and has always been] an open and welcoming market for migrant workers and in 2019 is very much open for business.
Employers: Once a company posts a vacancy on Midlandjobs.ie it is then available to be promoted by International job aggregator sites, making your vacancy available to be applied for by International candidates. Click here to Post a vacancy.
Midlands based publishers and online communities can now publish automatically selected local jobs for their readers using a simple Jobs Feed tool offered by Midlandjobs.ie.
This is one of many new features on Midlandjobs designed to improve circulation of job posts for the benefit of local Midlands employers in your local area.
The links below are tailored for the main towns – however all locations can be made available if needed by getting in touch with us.
Jobs Feed Links Midlands towns
Mullingar: https://midlandjobs.ie/feeds/rss.xml?location=Mullingar
Tullamore: https://midlandjobs.ie/feeds/rss.xml?location=Tullamore
Athlone: https://midlandjobs.ie/feeds/rss.xml?location=Athlone
Portlaoise: https://midlandjobs.ie/feeds/rss.xml?location=Portlaoise
Longford: https://midlandjobs.ie/feeds/rss.xml?location=Longford
If you have any enquiries please don’t hesitate to contact us on 086 8237179
Below is an example of how the creators of the Invest Mullingar website have successfully used this feature to publish jobs on www.investmullingar.com/jobs-in-mullingar
So there is life outside the main cities after all – who knew.
The Canal Quarter festival in Tullamore is great value each year for Midlandians. The street is closed off for four days in August at Hugh Lynch’s pub – well worth a visit.
Basic Midlandjobs Listing – €29.95 plus VAT
Blog listing + Social Sharing – €20 plus VAT
Additional boost Admin Fee – €20 plus VAT (+ your boost budget)
The Midlandjobs.ie online database is a register of job-seekers seeking to find work in the Midlands region. The candidate database has been steadily growing since 2006. When a local employer posts a new job on the site, job alerts are automatically emailed to relevant locally based job-seekers informing them of your new vacancy.
However Social Media channels have now also opened up our service to other forms of reaching relevant job-seekers in the Midlands area. While the employer themselves may not have a well-developed social media presence, or their channels are not orientated around their recruitment, they can now easily list on through our Midlandjobs’ presence.
For moderate extra administration fees, you can place your job wording onto the Midlandjobs blog and share it socially amongst our Social Media followers, as well as your own dedicated social fans. CV applications will still be channelled through the Midlandjobs’ application mechanism ensuring you get the best possible local coverage for your vacancies.
As always, the sooner you get your vacancy working for you, the sooner you are likely to have found your ideal new team member, so don’t delay in talking to us.
For more information on the best way to circulate your job wording to a wider audience call Tom on (086) 8237179 or email midlandjobs.ie@gmail.com
Fascinating to look back on this amazingly prescient film from 1995 “Denise Calls Up“, featuring a group of 7 remote working New Yorkers who live their whole lives on the end of early mobile phones and laptops – but never actually meet up. This was even before smartphones, tablets or 4G were even conceptualised – like 20 years ago. The first time I saw it was in the quirky old Lighthouse cinema in Abbey St. Dublin. Check out their early laptops phones and desk-tops. YouTube, Google, Twitter and Facebook didn’t even exist let alone Tinder or Plenty of Fish. While it was a sort of comedy – if it was meant to be a prediction or a warning of what was to be coming down the tracks socially, well then it couldn’t have been more accurate. They find every excuse why their busy lives prevent them from indulging in genuine real human contact.
20 years on and remote working still has made hardly anything by way of in-roads in Ireland. What is the big problem you would wonder – management culture in Ireland by any chance? Some considerable strides are being made in terms of broadband coverage in the main towns yet still midlands based workers are forced into the car-park like traffic on the road into and out of Dublin city day after day. As an alternative, have a look at some of the e-Working centres available by Westmeath Co Co for example. Makes sense. The ultimate unique selling point (USP) of the midlands is the quality of life it offers. Never before has it been so easy to live here close to friends and family and still be entirely productive. Increasingly, it is possible for your employer to be based in New York and you working from home in Newtown lawns, Mullingar for example. As the war for talent intensifies, the more forward-thinking hiring managers overseas will spot this and start to cherry-pick from it. Local Irish employers might be well advised to do likewise.
| Job Title | Digital / Resourcing Intern |
| Sector | IT, Software & Telecoms, Web Design & Ecommerce |
| Salary | Salary negotiable |
| Town/City | Mullingar |
| Job Type | Internship |
| Job Description | Digital / Resourcing Intern
Based in our brand new resourcing department, the successful applicant will hold the potential to become a key member of our IT Skill search team. Put simply, our mission is to find the best, newest and most efficient systems in online skills resourcing. We are already highly geared and up to speed in our procedures and practices. But there’s just no time to stand still and we want to keep getting better. Daily Tasks Required • An insatiable hunger for and interest in online technologies and systems There will also be the potential for the holder of this role to provide services to the other departments within Midas Technologies such as possibly software development. To apply for this internship please click here |
Anyone who’s looking for a job or who has ever been out of work knows it’s a full-time job just looking for a job.
Jobnet is an award winning programme developed by Jobcare to address the needs of a new kind of job-seeker in the Irish jobs market – the professionally skilled individual or graduate who, because of the current economic climate, is finding it difficult to find work, yet has much to offer a potential employer. Jobnet offers a professional environment tailored to the specific needs of this group. The programme empowers job-seekers to market their skills and learn to network effectively to find employment.
This excellent programme is coming soon to Mullingar, in association with Mullingar Chamber of Commerce and Christian Voices Together Mullingar – starting on 20th February 2015. The programme is designed around the needs of Professionals and Graduates who find themselves out of work for whatever reason, redundancy, career change, lack of applicable experience and so on.
In Jobcare, Jobnet runs from 9.30 to 1.30 on Friday mornings for seven weeks. There are five programmes per year. Jobnet focuses on personal branding, networking, goal setting and job seeking in a digital age. In addition to the large group setting, participants work in table groups of six to eight people. Each table group is supported by a volunteer facilitator whose role is to be a resource to the group. Participants are encouraged to view each Jobnet session as a day at work and to plan appropriately. Key messages in the programme are confidence-building, reinvention, up-skilling, network building, targeted job search and seeking out local opportunities.
Each Jobnet session begins with table time where participants share their week’s activities with their facilitator. That is followed by a presentation by a guest speaker, followed by practical workshops led by the Jobnet team. Time is set aside for open networking in the middle and at the end of each Jobnet session.
For more information on applying to partake in the course please email jobnetmullingarinfo@gmail.com or call Brendan Healy on 087 4128903
Total Cost to participants: €20 (administration fee)
www.jobcare.ie
