Newspaper recruitment ads up 84% in January

OVER 19,000 recruitment advertisements were placed in national daily and Sunday newspapers in January, an 84% increase on the previous month.

This is down 6% on January 2005, but still represents a very positive start to the recruitment year, said survey producers Bank of Ireland Business Banking.

The figures include jobs advertised for the Republic only and are based on a count of all job advertisements in the Irish Examiner, The Sunday Business Post, The Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, Irish Independent and Sunday Independent.