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 ArticleWe all know interviewing for a job can be stressful and a source of anxiety for potential candidates. Here are some good ways to make sure that your candidates are at ease when they come to interview, so that you can really see what they have to offer. Make them feel welcome Leaving a candidate in a bare waiting room is a great way to increase anxiety and turn them off to the work environment before they know anything more....
Categories: General, IT Recruitment, Recruitment, Software Placements, Tips 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 ArticleWe had a quick chat with our Michéal O’Maoldomhnaigh our Managing Director to find out more about him, and what to look out for in terms of employment trends in the future. What is your background briefly? I have BA Hons Degree in History & Politics and MA Peace and Conflict Studies. After finishing University, I worked for a short period in Software and Mobile Sales. Does it seem like a logical background to what you do now? Yes, as I...
Categories: automation testers, Coding, DevOps, dublinbeta, General, IT Recruitment, Relocation, Software Placements, Startup Grind, Tips View ArticleFollowing on from Michael Diver’s great article “How do I become a DevOps Engineer”, we wanted to let you know that we are currently hiring for a range of such positions in Ireland. DevOps may seem like the new buzzword in the IT sector, but it is important to recognise that the interoperability of different operating systems will only become more and more important as we move to a more interconnected world. The Internet of Things (IoT) and then subsequentially...
Categories: Coding, DevOps, General, IT Recruitment, JavaScript, Python, Relocation, Software Engineer, Software Placements View ArticleAs all software engineers will know, it is near to impossible to code something that is 100% perfect, especially once you have updated various parts of the program. You can never be sure if everything will run smoothly until you hit the update option and run the updated code to see if it does what it is supposed to. Testing is an integral part of building, improving, and evolving almost all products these days. In 2011 Marc Andreessen, globally renowned tech entrepreneur,...
Categories: automation testers, QA automation engineer, Software Placements 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 ArticleWe’re in the business of finding and recruiting the best possible candidates to fill a whole range of positions here in Ireland. Here at Software Placements we’ve successfully recruited many people to take up their next position in the booming IT sector. We are committed to finding the best candidates, whether they are based in Ireland, or need to be recruited from overseas. Ireland is experiencing a boom at the moment, with a great demand for qualified, skilled people to...
Categories: automation testers, DevOps, General, Python, QA automation 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 ArticleIt’s a year since we last featured you, how has it been going since then? Yes, it’s been good, 12 months later, it is going well. I’m currently recruiting for QA automation engineers, automation testers, and some Java developers. What has changed, is QA in more / less demand over the last 12 months? QA Automation is still very much in demand. In particular, this means being able to develop on frameworks and write scripts while also being able to...
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