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  • 11-11-2011 1:05pm
    #1
    Svetti Arss
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭


    Can anyone recommend a decent employment agency that specialise in IT and also the a good website to search for IT jobs in Ireland?


    TIA..


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    komodosp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    I can't tell if they are decent are not but I would recommend sending your CVs to as many as you can find...

    Here are a couple I've been dealing with

    Harvey Nash
    Sigmar
    Verkom / Morgan McKinley (actually found me a job)
    Brightwater Recruitment

    And of course a few other websites -
    http://www.irishjobs.ie/
    http://www.recruitireland.ie/
    http://www.monster.ie/
    http://www.jobs.ie/


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Assuming by "IT" you mean "Software Development" then the only agency I've dealt with that I would recommend is Solas Consulting. In my experience they seem to be one of the few that will actually call you back when they say they will and have leads for locations outside Dublin.
    komodosp wrote: »
    I can't tell if they are decent are not but I would recommend sending your CVs to as many as you can find...
    Definitely don't do this. What happens if you send your CV to half a dozen recruiters and they all put you forward for the same job?
    komodosp wrote:
    Harvey Nash
    I dealt with this company last year. We had a couple of phone conversations and a few e-mails and then poof, have heard nothing from them since. After the third follow-up call I gave up on them.


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Oh and the leetness of komodosp's last post made me chuckle :)

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    Svetti Arss
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭Svetti Arss


    Malice wrote: »
    Definitely don't do this. What happens if you send your CV to half a dozen recruiters and they all put you forward for the same job?

    I agree. This happened to me a few years ago.


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    komodosp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    Hate to ruin my post count but any recruiters I've dealt with (including the ones above) have always rung me before putting me forward


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Pretty sure they aren't allowed to put you forward without your permission (for a specific role). If it happens otherwise make a formal complaint.


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    komodosp wrote: »
    Hate to ruin my post count but any recruiters I've dealt with (including the ones above) have always rung me before putting me forward
    With specific reference to Harvey Nash, they did indeed ring me and I had a long chat with a woman about a specific role in Dublin. At the time I was coming to the end of a contract so was interested to see what was out there. I still have the last e-mail I got from her which said that she had submitted my CV to the company. That was the last correspondence from Harvey Nash despite repeated calls on my side. Now I don't want to sound conceited but I've a pretty good CV and have happily been able to pick and choose roles so I was very surprised to be treated like graduate #11,456 and basically ignored.
    srsly78 wrote: »
    Pretty sure they aren't allowed to put you forward without your permission (for a specific role). If it happens otherwise make a formal complaint.
    I've been told on two separate occasions by interviewers that they have had exactly that issue happen. Either way how is the person whose CV is being pushed going to know that they have been applied for the same job multiple times? No one from the target company is going to have the time to tell them.


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    If it happens to you complain to the agency. Any non-cowboy agency will take it seriously.

    Have been dealing with agencies for 10+ years, and have never ever been put forward without my permission tbh. One of the first things they usually ask is "are you dealing with any other agencies at the moment?".

    BTW I use the "shotgun approach" of having my CV on file with pretty much every agency out there.


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    srsly78 wrote: »
    If it happens to you complain to the agency. Any non-cowboy agency will take it seriously.
    As I said in my last post, how will the person whose CV has been submitted know this?
    srsly78 wrote:
    One of the first things they usually ask is "are you dealing with any other agencies at the moment?".
    That doesn't prevent your CV from potentially being submitting multiple times though does it? The whole point is that they don't give out the company name.
    srsly78 wrote:
    BTW I use the "shotgun approach" of having my CV on file with pretty much every agency out there.
    Fair enough, if it works for you :).


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