Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
DID YOU SEE Dublin Airport’s tearjerker video of the O’Connor family earlier this week?
Carmel O’Connor topped her family’s airport surprise by telling them she wasn’t returning to Australia. She was staying at home – for good.
And she’s not alone. As opportunities begin to open up in Ireland again, more and more citizens are returning from the lands they fled to during the recession.
But the recruitment process – after being out of the employment landscape here for so long – can be daunting.
We sat down with recruitment specialists Noel Group to get some tips for those hoping to stay on the island in 2015.
The firm is planning a campaign around a ‘Bring Them Home’ theme.
Business Manager Jerry O’Sullivan explains, “We are working to create the awareness that Ireland is home and the jobs are here.
“We have seen a surge of vacancies in all our divisions so we need unskilled and skilled staff. We place all nationalities that have legal status to work in Ireland – but, as always, clients like to have Irish candidates as well.”
O’Sullivan shared these five tips with us for those returning home and looking for work.
1. KEEP IT SHORT
We hear this all the time – but it is true. Your CV should be short, snappy and concise. There should be no ‘fancy stuff’, meaning coloured ink or pictures.
2. EXPLAIN YOUR BREAKS
Many people coming back from abroad will have taken up work outside their ‘usual’ career – or not worked at all.
It is important to explain and not hide these experiences. They could have been because of travelling or visa restrictions.
Employers have no problem with breaks from careers but they just need to know. This is especially in some sectors which have to adhere to certain regulations, such as nursing.
3. POSITIVES OF TRAVEL
Even if you haven’t worked every day (or any day) of your time away, there could have been value in your experiences.
Employers want to know if you have self-financed the trip and what you have done along the way. But this can be kept for interviews – not your CV.
4. UP-TO-DATE REFERENCES
If you’ve been away a while, it’s understandable that your references will also be out of the country. Again, employers don’t mind.
But make sure they include up-to-date phone numbers and emails. Written references are acceptable but they will always be verified.
It is also helpful to include website links to the place of work because it might not be well-known to an Irish audience.
5. CONTRACT CAN BE KING
Some people shy away from temporary work or contracted work but it can offer some major positives. Nowadays, it often leads to full-time and permanent positions. It also gives the candidate time to assess if the company and role is actually for them. We’re hitting a time in the labour market now that jobseekers can be a little more choosy about where they end up – in both skilled and unskilled sectors.
Have you returned home? Do you have any other tips that could help someone in a similar situation? Let us know in the comments section.
Noel Group work with both candidates and clients and their consultants all work within the field the recruit for. They offer CV clinics and interview practice to all candidates. They won three awards at the National Recruitment Federation Awards in 2014, including the Best Large Agency and the Hospitality and Events Agency of the year.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
DNA matching is nothing new to the Irish dating scene. Something we’re trying to move away from you might even say.
@Winston Smith: LOL
@Winston Smith:
True.
The gene pool in my parent’s homeplace was shallow enough to paddle in.
Everybody seemed to be a cousin of some sort to everybody else there!
@Michael Kavanagh: “Kevin Bacon” six degrees of separation!!
@Colette Kearns:
Believe me – when it come to acquaintance (especially knowing the bad news) their colective Bacon Number there is a big fat one!
It sounds like another marvelously inventive way for companies to get access to your DNA profile. Be very wary of parting with this information!
@Sean: if a big pharma company bought millions of people’s DNA and then used that to research and find a cure for say, cancer, would you find that unethical? I wouldn’t
@niamh ryan: you believe their goal is always to cure everything…. interesting..!!!
@niamh ryan:with or without permission?
@Bluey: in an ideal world with permission. Specifically for medical research purposes. But I suppose once you hand it over you lose control of it
@Ian Scott: and you think their goal is……
@niamh ryan: to be fair their goal is to generate as much money as possible for as long as possible. Whoever thinks pharma companies are looking to make the world a better place is naive.
@niamh ryan: big pharma finding a cure for something they make millions off…lol…
@David Daly: they are a business of course they are out to make money. They invest billions in research and have a right to charge for their products. Certain types of cancer are no longer an automatic death sentence, people living full lives with HIV, huge breakthroughs in parkinsonism ect. They are making the world a better place for profit. It would be naive to think that anybody would do it for free
@niamh ryan: The Pharma company would would need to know who got cancer and what type of cancer they got in the DNA sample population for it to be useful. You have presented something of a false but meaningless argument here. What is more likely is that the data would be bought by a life insurance company which could then have very real implications for your children or grandchildren. They could be refused a mortgage (based on being refused life cover) because of an increased risk of certain inherited diseases in your DNA. Why not?
The millennials are to busy flicking between pages on their phones as to flicking between the sheets
@dick dastardly: ah sure you’re still pining over Penelope Pitstop.
@Keelan O’neill: now there’s a cartoon character u cud hang ur wet duffle coat on……….(or words to that effect)
They need DNA testing as the amount of people in towns who have the same biological father is crazy now… That was a joke once but no longer…
@TamuMassif2019: are you speaking from experience??
@TamuMassif2019:
You the Daddy?
Some enchanted evening , you may see a stranger,
You may see a stranger, across a crowded room,
And somehow you know, you know even then,
That somehow you’ll see her , again and again…..
Much more romantic way to meet.
@Aine O Connor:
Yup.
Then you go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid like
I’ll swab you.
Genetic profile for romance, hardly. However what a genetic profile App will do is flash warning lights as regards inherited problems, like for instance both parties being CF carriers. That doesn’t need to kill the romance, but it does give the option of going I.V., and screening the embryos before implantation, thus leaving the problem behind. Likewise various of the genes that pre dispose to cancers of one sort or another.
Tinder or what ever app. If you want to meet a serial killer, I’d say it’s a pretty good way.
This country is so inbred it’s new DNA we need!
have your say