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WHETHER YOU CALL it Mondayitis or the back-to-work blues, that feeling of dread at the return to the daily grind is alive and well – and it’s making people reach for the mouse.
New analysis from Indeed, the world’s biggest job website, has revealed Irish workers are wasting little time on returning to their desks on a Monday before plotting their next career move.
The most common time for Irish job hunters to log in on their computers was about 9am at the start of each working week.
And the data showed the clicks from desktop or laptop users remained constant through the day – suggesting employees were doing plenty of searching on the sly in the office.
In comparison, mobile users mainly hit the job sites outside the standard working hours with the peak time for portable searches coming at 8pm.
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But the analysis showed that by the time the weekend rolled around, most job seekers had lost interest in their next career move with clicks dropping off on Saturdays and Sundays.
The figures also revealed now was the time most Irish people started looking for new work with September and October the peak seasons for a job hunt, while locals were least likely to search in December as the silly season began to take over.
Good signs, but lots of hunters
In positive news for job hunters, Indeed’s data showed there had been a 12% jump in ads for Ireland-based positions over the past year.
But its figures showed an even bigger surge in searches with visits to the company’s local site up 40% year-on-year.
Indeed Ireland managing director Gerard Murnaghan said the results were “very encouraging” for prospective job hunters and employers were generally looking to hire more talent.
As the economic recovery gathers pace, and the rate of unemployment continues to edge downwards, we expect this growth to continue,” he said.
The Central Bank last week revised down its unemployment forecasts until the end of the year and for 2015, when it expects the jobless rate to fall to 10.3%.
However the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office showed average wages were still down on their 2007 levels and only some sectors had seen their earnings rebound as the jobs market started to pick up again.
Indeed will hold its own open recruitment evening on Thursday, 16 October at the company’s Dublin offices.
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This I like.
It’s actually a daft ruling. This isn’t about google collecting your data.
It’s a newspaper article which was printed about a house being sold because the man in Spain defrauded the government. He wanted the result removed when you search his name.
It’s pure censorship and technically could mean libraries indexing their newspapers could be forced to stop.
They should also apply this to social media like Facebook & Twitter.
A good step!
I’m guessing Denis O’B will be looking to get any info from the Moriarty tribunal removed so.
“The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) found that under certain conditions, a person can request certain information to be erased if “the data appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant.””
Who decides if the data is inadequate or irrelevant though?
” irrelevant or no longer relevant.””
huh?
“Ireland’s bailout and property crash”
No Longer Relevant, signed E Kenny
If the search passes through google’s US sites, then the EU has no clout.
Google will probably just remove the stuff from google.es
Even this post will take up a little space on the US data center.
Indeed.
Not much point in deleting anything with the NSA about.
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And you can take their word for it?
No, you can see for yourself by searching :)
This is only right too
I don’t really understand this, *googles opinion”
Good
When PULSE has been used as a tool to “set up” innocent people (per Maurice McCabe) can we expect our new Minister for Justice to act on foot of this judgement?
Permanent suspicion is dangerous, and isn’t really an effective use of leading systems. We need to take a lot more care of how our State keeps tabs on us.
Talk about your basic internet fail. Google, yahoo ect do not keep the internet in a box at company HQ. Besides because companies such as Amazon pay the likes of Google to give favourable positions to their links ,nobody really uses main stream search engines to find detailed info anymore.
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