Irish Recruiters is Ireland's largest online recruitment community formed in 2007 by Declan Fitzgerald this is the introduction to the 2010 conference

1. What is Irish Recruiters
• Irish Recruiters is a LinkedIn group set up in December 07 by Declan
Fitzgerald
• The aim of which is to build community, promote education and raise the
levels of recruitment sophistication within the Irish recruitment industry
so that we all can get better at sourcing the best talent the world has to
offer to these shores.
• It also hopes to enhance Ireland’s brand as a centre of recruitment
excellence around the world.
• It is an network for recruiters based in Ireland and Irish recruiters based
abroad.
• The network meets up regularly in the form of Tweet Ups, Tuesday Club
events, Irish Recruiters conferences and a Christmas dinner.
• It is not trying to be the NRF or CIPD. It includes all facets of the Irish
recruitment Industry e.g. employers, agencies, job boards, ATSs, etc.
• It’s focus is on the internationalisation of recruitment and how technology
is evolving the industry at lightening speed.

2. Who is Declan Fitzgerald
The Irish Cyber Sleuth Blog LinkedIn Profile

3. Interesting facts about Irish Recruiters LinkedIn Group
• Currently has 2120+ members and Deloitte Digicel
growing. Diageo
Pocket Kings
• 147 CEO/Owners and 114 directors Hertz
of Recruitment Agencies Sales Force Amnesty
• 317 recruitment agencies Cisco Accenture
represented Pfizer Siemens
Tesco
• 19 Job Boards Vodafone ARUP
• 175 Recruitment Managers and 32 Eircom The Irish Times
HR Managers from 224 companies Bank of Ireland Pocket Kings
• Approx. 6% are from overseas Bank of Scotland
Microsoft
• 55 from Australia Ulster Bank
BT Modus Link
• 77 from Northern Ireland Independent Morgan McKinley
• 40% of members are non agency Abbot Dell
Board Bia
Yahoo Google
Have you joined the group yet? Facebook Xerox
Concern Ericsson
If not, go to groups section in LinkedIn LinkedIn
KPMG
and type “Irish Recruiters” to apply UCC

4. Web Site: (www.irishrecruiters.com)

5. Education and Community
• Irish Recruiters Conferences are normally half day events held in Dublin with speakers
from home and abroad. These events typically have snappy 30 minute presentations with
break out discussion sessions
• Irish Recruiters a monthly newsletter that is shared with all members of Irish
Recruiters. It is full of rich information from the world of recruitment and
technology. It is also the perfect location for members to advertise their
services
• Irish Recruiters Tuesday Clubs are help each quarter of the year and are
presentations given by Declan and members on hot topics in the industry as
well as a series of break out discussions. These are a great way to network,
share and learn from each other.
• In association with the CIPD Irish Recruiters has teamed up to create Ireland’s first set of
internet and social media courses. Trainings have been updated in 2011 to now include:
• The Certified Internet Recruiter course – which over 125 recruiters have taken
across the country
• The Advanced Certified Internet Recruiter course
• LinkedIn Recruitment Training
• Social Media for HR
• Using the internet and social media for to build your online brand and find a job