6February
Employers spend lots of time working out what makes Generation Z tick. And how to shape their practices and policies to attract this coveted group. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is never far from their minds. Today’s new wave of recruits prioritise...
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13November
You’ve found your feet in this new world of college. The juggling of lectures with a social life with suddenly having to look after yourself was overwhelming at first, but a routine is setting in. That routine involves spending money – lots of it – so...
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9October
For most people, writing a CV isn’t a lot of fun. It’s something we tend to put off, maybe because we don’t really like ‘pitching’ ourselves in the way it requires, or having to face where we are at career-wise and put that to paper. By the time we get through...
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2October
Eden Recruitment Chief Executive Ken Lee was one of three experts recently interviewed by Peter McGuire of The Irish Times for a feature on “The 25 things employers and graduates want from each other”. With a bit of luck, today’s graduates will make quite...
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24September
Just what do we means by diversity in the workplace? Well, google the term, and you’ll see what it means to most people. Gender, religion, culture, ethnicity … these are the terms that dominate in diversity-speak. Keep searching and you may stumble upon ‘age’. Fact...
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12September
You’re well prepared. You’ve read up on the company. You’ve practiced all the hard questions and even written down your answers. You’ve printed off your CV and have been to the dry cleaners and back. Bring on next week’s job interview! Yet a little voice is telling...
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9September
How did you end up in the green chair? I think a long-standing passion for meeting people from a range of different countries and cultures goes some way to explaining my being here! From au-pairing at a young age throughout Europe and America, I became interested in...
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2September
Feeling you need a holiday after your holiday – it’s a common sentiment and one connected to the angst we share in returning to our desks and the pile of unknowns that is surely awaiting us there. Admit it, few of us saviour the return to the grind of work, however...
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16July
As any employer will attest, there has been a power shift in the labour market in recent years. How acute that change is will depend on the sector you inhabit, but fundamentally we are in an environment where quite often the candidate, not the employer. is king. The...
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13June
The threat that robots pose to human employment is nothing new. Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve seen machines displace manual labour, mostly for the betterment of mankind. But something new is afoot. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances at an exponential...
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