49 per cent of IT recruiters find social networking sites more useful than internet banner ads in finding staff!

The day job is keeping me extremely busy at the moment so apologies for the lack of blogging!

Here is an interesting artcile with some opinions from IT recruiters on the value of placing banner ads on sites versus mining in social networks.

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If you want to find out more about Microsoft's new Windows Live Europe recruitment micro-site you should check it out here.

4 social networks to think about mining

OpenBC (Germany)

LabCircle (Germany)

Viaduc (France)

Neurona (Spain)

Recruitment from Bulgaria not that easy!

Any we thought we had it bad in Ireland. Read here.

Google to double workforce in Ireland to 3000

Wow! Will be interesting to see how many of this new heads will be senior core-tech engineers working on core service delivery!

Check out the article here.