Staff enlisted to tackle jobs site ‘teething problems’

The Department of Social Protection has had to draft in additional resources to deal with queries because a new version of the Jobsireland.ie website has been experiencing “teething problems”.

The free website enables employers to post job opportunities and jobseekers to look for those opportunities online. The service is currently being upgraded because, as Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar admitted, “at 20 years old, the original website was showing its age”.

“For example, although it enabled jobseekers to search for job opportunities based on job type and location, it wasn’t possible for employers to search for suitable jobseekers on the site; they had to rely on candidates finding and applying for a job from among the many thousands hosted on the system.”