Software Placements features an excellent track record in recruiting and placing highly qualified candidates across diverse industries. This week we begin a regular series of interviews with some of those candidates, so they can tell us about their professional background, give us an outlook on how the current role has helped them advance their careers, and also provide insights on their personal experience with Software Placements. We recently spoke with Alain Moghabghab, Software Development Manager currently on assignment at Workday....
Categories: IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Recruitment, Relocation, Software Engineer, Software Placements View ArticleJanuary is easily the most depressing month of the year. It has the worst day – Blue Monday, the most relationship breakups and the most deaths. Most of us end our New Year resolutions and have no money to spend. While outside, it’s dark, it’s cold, and it’s miserable. It’s also miserable for in-demand tech professionals, being bombarded with stupid questions from inexperienced recruiters, in the busiest recruitment month of the year. “Have you got a second? I have an...
Categories: IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Software Placements, Tips View ArticleAs always, use data and not simply intuition to determine the most appropriate and effective coaching areas at your firm. The content of the best candidate coaching is, of course, specific to each hiring manager and candidate. But to give you a general idea about what can to be covered, the following list covers the 10 areas where coaching generally has the highest impact. The highest impact guidance areas are listed first. Fully understanding the company culture — many companies...
Categories: IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Software Placements, Tips View ArticleHiring the top talent out there to work on the start-up that you have going can be daunting. You have to find the best people for the positions you need to fill. When you make a wrong choice, this could mean bad results for your company. Use these top tips for choosing the best talent to work within your start up and see your company prosper. You may be surprised to find that the best talent is awaiting you in...
Categories: Events, IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Recruitment, Startup Grind, Tips View ArticleHow to Create a Standout Digital CV some advice from Software Placements Did you know employers have from 5 to 7 seconds to look through your resume. So, is it possible to catch their eye within this time? The answer is yes thankfully. Here are some tips to ensure you do make an impression when it comes to catching the eye of your next potential employers. Living in a new digital era, you need to get the most out of it. You are probably...
Categories: General, IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Recruitment View ArticleWe’re approaching our second decade in business, and we’re looking to grow and continue to expand. We were established almost 10 years ago, and Software Placements is a boutique indigenous Irish IT and Semiconductor recruitment company. We based right in the Georgian heart of Dublin in Merrion Square, Dublin 2. We are a company who prides itself on its quality of service, experience and market knowledge of our consultants, our entrepreneurial culture and empowering Start-Ups through sponsoring Dublin Beta and Startup Grind...
Categories: automation testers, DevOps, dublinbeta, General, IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Recruitment, Relocation, Software Engineer, Software Placements, Startup Grind View ArticleLeonard Hobbs is one of Ireland’s leading technologists in the ICT sector with close to 30 years of experience including that of a large successful global enterprise spanning leading edge research to technology transfer to advanced manufacturing and high volume operations in the US, Europe and Ireland. Has a very strong network with the industry and the broader business and academic community. We had a quick chat with Leonard to get some insights from his long and successful career working...
Categories: General, IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Semi conductors View ArticleWe’re delighted to share the story of Denis Sukhonin, who moved from Russia and eventually came to work here in Ireland. Software Placements have many jobs for which we are looking to fill with the best candidates possible, either from Ireland or all over the world. If you have the talent, we may well have the right next career move for you, drop us a line and see if we can help you. Below are Denis’s own successful story...
Categories: General, IT Success Stories, Software Engineer, Software Placements View ArticleJerko Buric We were delighted to chat with the talented Digital Forensics and eDiscovery consultant Jerko Buric, who was successfully recruited by Software Placements, from his beautiful hometown of Split, Croatia last August to come and work in Dublin for Grant Thornton. What is your background? What did you do in Croatia? I was a consultant in a company, delivering training, from small cases of digital forensics, and up to how to deal with big cyber raids on your company....
Categories: Cyber Security, General, IT Success Stories, Software Placements View ArticleWhere did you move from to come and live in Ireland? In April 2015, I moved here from southern Russia. What were you doing before and what position did you come here to take up? I was a software developer based in southern Russia, mostly working on contracts remotely. I had worked for foreign companies, with about 10 years experience. Why did you decide to move to Ireland? I found a job, I liked the culture. There were many things for me. As...
Categories: IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Relocation, Software Placements View ArticleWhere did you move from to come to Ireland? Brazil, Minas Gerais. My husband got a job here, and we decided to come here. I was a software tester in Brazil. I came here as an English student. Then my husband got citizenship and a job offer from Ericsson. We now work in Cork city and live in Kinsale. The food is very good and we commute to work. Why did you decide to move to Ireland? To take up the job, and to...
Categories: IT Recruitment, IT Success Stories, Relocation, Software Placements View ArticleSoftware placement Irish success stories – Marko Satek Where did you move from to come to Ireland? Zagreb, I grew up there. What were you doing before and what position did you come here to take up? I was a ruby on rails developer, in the same type of position for about 4 years back in Croatia before I came here. Why did you decide to move to Ireland? My job was changing, and the company was changing but not...
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