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Lunchtime on Tuesday most popular time to jobhunt - Indeed

Research from recruitment website Indeed suggests the peak time to jobhunt on the web in Ireland is Tuesday at lunchtime
Research from recruitment website Indeed suggests the peak time to jobhunt on the web in Ireland is Tuesday at lunchtime

If you're in the midst of looking for a new job, well then you are most likely to be searching online for employment later today.

Research from recruitment website Indeed suggests the peak time to jobhunt on the web in Ireland is Tuesday at lunchtime.

Paul D'Arcy, Indeed's Global Head of Marketing, said job searching is changing "pretty quickly" in Ireland with the economy strengthening.

"For as long as I can remember the peak time for job search was Monday morning at 10am. People would get into their job and realise they wanted to be somewhere else.

"But there are better jobs now, we see salaries going up and it's definitely a jobseekers market."

He said sectors with the highest jobs demand are construction, hospitality, and retail.

"That represents the expansion of the economy.

"There are some roles though that are really critical and where there is very short supply for jobseekers and that includes roles that drive innovation and also revenue.

"If you're looking for software engineers or people to do quality assurance testing of software, it's really hard to find those people right now in Ireland. And likewise, even for sales roles and customer service roles, those roles are going chronically unfilled right now."

Indeed is also noticing a shift in the recruitment industry away from the more traditional CV - a move Paul D'Arcy is calling the death of the CV.

He says it's a "slow death" but Indeed sees the CV as a "highly problematic method of representing the skills that someone has for a job and that when CVs are reviewed, the decisions are often filled with bias.

"If you have a more foreign-sounding name or an address in a less-desirable part of the city or the country you're less likely to get an interview.

"The average CV - a recruiter spends about six seconds reviewing it, so it's very quick and those decisions are fraught with bias.

"What we see now is organisations are doing more testing and assessments of candidates to try to assess whether a person can really contribute and do a job well."

The Global Head of Marketing with Indeed said this shift is not necessarily a costly exercise for recruiters.

"There are a lot of assessments that are available for free ... Indeed has a platform that we're rolling out globally that gives free assessments anywhere in the world for any type of job."

An ESRI study today indicates a drop-off in the so-called gig economy, with temporary jobs not as prevalent as we might have thought during the recession, and that such work is now declining.

Mr D'Arcy says this research "does and doesn't tally" with what he is seeing.

"The gig economy and the traditional sector sit side by side and when there is very strong employment and a lot of permanent full-time jobs that puts pressure on the gig economy.

"But what we do see in our search data is that there is a real increase in people looking for part-time and flexible work that pays well. People do want to be able to optimise for happiness and often having flexibility and the ability to work when they want is a really important part of that."

On the difficulties posed to recruiters by Ireland entering full employment, Mr D'Arcy said: "It's much trickier to hire, especially for highly skilled roles.

"For recruiters the key things are to make sure your jobs are online and to tell the story of what's really special about your work environment."