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Perhaps you have been made redundant and your industry has been a wipe out. What does not change is the fact that you have a lot of experience.
What may be possible is to look for some Government contracts because even if they ask for 3 years of financial records, you may not require the financial [...]

Found this interesting blog as to – Why Recruiters don’t respond
Another interesting blog – No Response after Interview
And another Why no updates after Interviews

We are hearing of X, Y, Z numbers of jobs being advertisied, sometimes it is the same job being rehashed so that search engines might pick up the job first or just to better place the vacancy near the top of a list.
We hear it from our jobseekers of the frustration of not getting replies [...]

Thousands of contract employees will be brought into the PAYE net for the first time as the government moves to close a loophole in the tax system.
The move is designed to ensure that contractors who are de facto employees cannot avoid PAYE by being paid through limited companies they establish. The changes will also apply [...]

Will re-training be a recurring factor in most peoples careers as the need to continously reinvent ourselves due to changing working environments caused by recessions.
As the age for retirement creeps up to over 70, due to many factors, for example, not enough young people in employment to support an aging population, it will be important [...]

Contractors are insisting that the time has come in the Irish contract employment market to disclose what the contract rates being offered are for contracts, much like what commission is being paid on Life Assurance policies to a Broker. Contractors are saying, (not to recruitment agencies because of fear of losing a contract), that they [...]

With the recent welcome lull in job losses about to be shattered with the announcement of imminent redundancies at Anglo Irish Bank. The bank has unveiled plans to make hundreds of its employees redundant as it tries to make itself lean.
This comes as a blow to the Government on the run up to the budget [...]

In December’s forthcoming Budget the Minister for Finance is being urged to prioritise the protection of jobs and also stimulate job creation.
The Employers’ group IBEC also says the Government should stand fast on cutting the public finances.

The planned announcement comes only days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton read more …

NI jobless figure rises by further 1,000 read more…