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Looking to Expand your Talent pool ? Post your Job with Back 4 Good !

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Back 4 Good are offering an exciting new Job postings and screening service for employers and agencies who are looking to expand their Talent pool.

With over 50,000 users on our various platforms and with www.back4good.ie becoming a site of choice for skilled professionals this new service will allow employers to post single or multiple vacancies on the Back 4 Good network .

Back 4 Good will support each posting with a targeted social and digital media campaign that will drive applications to the job posting .Back 4 Good will develop and plan the digital campaign , will script you job postings in our unique style  that  ensures  that the response to each posting matches the Job descriptions key requirements .

We will access the competency of candidates against the job specifications in consultation with HR managers and Recruitment Teams .

Back 4 Good offers a screening and shortlisting service which will involve reference checking and other due diligence checks  which will present a list of suitable candidates to clients for interview and will schedule Skype and Face Time interviews if required.

We can also get involved in package negotiation and and are experts on relocation requirements for professionals that wish to move to Ireland.

Back 4 Good have created strong interest and engagement by skilled workers in coming to Ireland to live and work and this new Talent pool presents employers with an excellent opportunity to fill those difficult to fill roles and also allows employers to meet multiple recruitment needs on our fastest growing skills platform .

Is Ireland running out of skilled workers ?

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We just learned from the CSO yesterday that Ireland’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was downwardly revised to 7.5% in October 2016 compared to 7.7% previously estimated .

This 7.5% figure is the lowest level since September 2008 .Unemployment rates in Ireland averaged 10.88% from 1983 until 2016 reaching an all time high of 17.40% in December of 1985 and a record low of 3.70% in December of 2000.

While this excellent news on the employment level is very welcome and an unemployment rate of under 8% is a significant improvement there in now a very real concern among employers that the already acute skills shortage in all sectors will now intensify .

At the CEO forum held in Dublin a survey of Ireland’s CEOs highlighted that a shortage of Talent was the biggest concern of Ireland’s CEOs far outweighing  Brexit or President Trump .

The concern is that this skills shortage will slow down our economic progress and the lack of skilled talent is leading  to wage inflation in many sectors .

The battle for Talent is Global and in high-skilled industries employers are willing to pay a premium for difficult to fill roles  with competition between countries and employers happening on a daily basis .

Ireland needs to meet these skills  shortage head on and the Education and Training system must address the need for large numbers of apprentices with a targeted action plan .

Ireland must invest in innovative solutions that expand our Talent pool by sourcing Talent overseas ,both Irish emigrants abroad and skilled non-Irish workers who are available in a number of locations .

Failure to address this issue in the short term will result in significant wage inflation ,a slow down in economic development and could result in today’s unemployment rate rising again .