28.7.10

Ever have too many tabs in your life

I'm constantly looking for ways to speed up my productivity - anything no matter how big or small. It could be a new macro that you write in Bing to automate a search, a new alert you create to track a certain feed or hastag, it could be how I take advantage of the new 10gb email attachement functionality in the new windows live hotmail client to share files with friends or member of Irish Recruiters, or, it could be as simple as how I manage my tabs in my broswers more effectively on Firefox.

That's where Tab Candy comes in. This reminds me a little like the new bunching functionality for apps on the the new iPhone O/S that saves me a lot of time scrolling from page to page. Like that Tab Candy allows you cluster your tabs and then place them in easily accessible locations. Just one of many extensions that is helping me win the race for inches and seconds and helps me get out of the office that little bit earlier and off the grid that little more often.

Im looking forward to learning more about the next release of the project with co-browsing and extensibility high on the development teams functionality road map.

22.7.10

I really dig Flipboard...definitely one of my favourite apps

If any of you have an iPad and your tired of looking at static feeds that come into your RSS reader all looking the same size and dimensions the folk at Flipboard have come out with a brillant idea that is catching a lot of people's attention. The software allows you build your own magazine which allows you to flip through it with a simple swipe of a finger. This is a revolutionary new UI Reader that already has brought down the company's servers with the demand it has seen in the last 3 days. It's free from the iTunes app store and for the moment only available for the iPad. I really love this app and looking forward to a version 2 that allows me a lot more customisation and also allows me bring in my LinkedIn feeds as well as the standard Twitter and Facebook ones it currently is set up for.


Check out their video:

17.7.10

New Facebook SEO tool and 4 new recruitment jobs to check out

I recently played around with Facebook Ads and placed a few ads for a friends business I was helping out with. Up until now Facebook has been lacking a tool of the quality of Google Keywords's Tool. However, I just heard about a new tool called Cash Keywords Pro that looks like it is now the first Facebook keyword tool that does a really good job. Using both tools I was able to get a much better data set of words to chose from to purchase. Check out the video to learn more.



On the job front:

Hays are hiring people in Australia (Perth and Melbourne) here

Principal HR have an IT recruiter position open here.

Salesforce also looking for a recruiter: here 

Accenture also hiring experienced recruiter to work with its Management and Technology Consulting practices. To apply you can contact: Jean.m.flavin@accenture.com

15.7.10

Interesting video on social media from Jobvite on their recent annual social media survey



You can get more comprehensive details from the survey here. I'd recommend having a look at it.

When I get more time I'll get an Irish Recrutiers Social Recruiting Survey out to see what the state of play is here in Ireland.

8.7.10

New Irish and Australian recruitment roles

I've been contacted by quite a few folk to get out the message around some new recruitment roles:

1. Stacey Taylor in othe Adelaide office of Hudson is trying to find some Irish recruiters who want to go and work in Perth. She can be contacted at: stacey.taylor@hudson.com

2. Ciara Williams of Sales Force is looking for a Senior Recruiter to join Salesforce.com on a contract basis in Dublin, she can be contacted at: cwilliams@salesforce.com


3. CPL's  Judith Moffett, Science & Engineering Manager also has a role open at: http://www.cplscience.ie/Jobs/Detail/323484/Recruitment_Consultant  she can be contacted at:  Judith.moffett@cpl.ie