Reading Time: < 1 minute Minister of State for Disability in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Anne Rabbitte, TD, joined AsIAm founder and CEO Adam Harris and IrishJobs Marketing Director Sarah Brewer to launch The Same Chance Toolkit which provides all the information employers need to help attract, hire and retain autistic talent.
Reading Time: < 1 minute IrishJobs has partnered with career and coaching psychologist Sinead Brady to launch a new campaign with the aim of giving young professionals the confidence and incentive to advance their careers as we emerge from the Covid pandemic.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bringing fresh talent to our platform and delivering more applications for your vacancies is a priority for us. That’s why over the month of November we’ve been running an extensive advertising campaign to prompt people to begin a job hunt.
Reading Time: < 1 minute As part of our partnership with AsIAm, Ireland’s National Autism Charity, we have been supporting a series of monthly masterclasses aimed at supporting employers to tap into the vast untapped pool of Autistic talent across Ireland. Our seventh and final Masterclass is taking place on Tuesday, November 16th 2021 at 12pm, and will explore ‘Remote Working and Supporting Neurodiverse Ways of Working’. Register now.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Job vacancies in Ireland were +42% higher in Q3 2021 than the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, according to the latest IrishJobs.ie Jobs Index. These figures are strong and ultimately good news for Irish jobseekers and the economy. “Far from experiencing a long-term deficit of jobs because of the pandemic, as many predicted, we actually have a huge number of vacancies nationwide“says Orla Moran, General Manager of IrishJobs.ie.
Reading Time: < 1 minute In our most recent employer masterclass with AsIAm we explored ‘Autism, career progression and personal development’. Chaired by Hannah O Dwyer, AsIAm’s Training Manager the masterclass discussed strategies to support autistic people‘s career advancement with experts speakers Tara Killen and Claire O’Neill of the organisation Thriving Autistic.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest webinar of our Employer Masterclass series, in partnership with the national autism charity, AsIAm, explored self-advocacy in the workplace for autistic people. The AsIAm team offered real-world advice on how employers can encourage self-advocacy in the workplace. While two autistic people, Eileen Chapman and Danny Burke, shared their experiences of self-advocacy.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Over 1 million candidates are now available to you in TalentBank, our all Ireland CV database. The current surge in hiring is creating an extremely competitive talent market for recruiters. Our rapidly expanding TalentBank offers you the opportunity to get a head start on your hiring by tapping into this rich pool of talented jobseekers.
Reading Time: 2 minutes You can now use boolean search in TalentBank. Ubiquitous across the recruitment industry, boolean search will allow you to quickly filter the almost one million candidates in TalentBank to help identify the best person for your job.
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the fourth webinar of our Employer Masterclass series, the team at AsIAm shared their expertise on reasonable accommodations. They spoke about how employers can use reasonable accommodations and workplace supports to empower autistic talent and promote a neurodiverse workplace culture.