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Have you ever worked in a Spooky Job or maybe you just had a Spooky Boss? Well some jobs are definitely not for the faint hearted - that&#39;s for sure. So, we had a little look around to see if we could find some scary jobs, just for fun as we prepare for Halloween. Check out what we found! Graveyard Caretakers and Embalmer opportunities with Ireland’s Death Care Academy Right now, <a href="https://www.jobsireland.ie/en-US/browse-jobs?CareerlevelId=undefined&amp;keyWord=graveyard&amp;location=&amp;page=1&amp;pageSize=10&amp;vacancyId=undefined&amp;VacancyTypeId=-1&amp;fbclid=IwAR2vRiJKnqY-6X4A3wbLTal3x81uPQSEpoOKs_iNOXT2_0pvWwLktw7NnOk">there&#39;s Graveyard Caretaker opportunities going in Kildare, Carlow &amp; Limerick</a> or how about training as an Embalmer with Ireland&#39;s Death Care Academy in Sligo? Honestly, we&#39;re not messing, the Academy runs professional training courses in the art and science of preserving human remains. According to Wikipedia, embalming originates back to ancient Egypt where specialised priests were in charge of removing and preserving a person&#39;s organs and organising mummification after death. For more information on Embalming Courses - check out <a href="http://www.deathcareacademy.ie/news/modern-embalming-hygienic-treatment/">The Irish College of Funeral Directing and Embalming (ICFDE)</a> Other courses run by the Death Care Academy include an Advanced Certificate in Mortuary Cosmetology. Yes, you got it…a beautician for deceased people, where you help to recreate the &#39;normal&#39; image of the person who has passed away, sometimes in tragic circumstances. Taking care of their hair, make up, presentation of hands and nails etc., so that the deceased looks nice on their final journey out of this World. I&#39;ll tell you another thing, I once had a hairdresser who kept a little notebook of advanced bookings for her aged clients for hair appointments after they died. Obviously, she didn&#39;t know when these appointments would happen but she had an arrangement with her loyal clients that if anything happened to them the family were already instructed to contact her. She would go to the funeral directors with her little hairdresser&#39;s bag and work on styling their hair exactly as they liked it every week. While there, she&#39;d also advise on how their make-up should be done, so they looked their best. If this is a career path you would like to pursue visit the <a href="http://www.deathcareacademy.ie">Death Care Academy&#39;s website</a> for information on their upcoming training courses. The DCA course is to enable students gain a recognised qualification in embalming and hygienic treatment of the deceased. Ghost Bus Tours If all that&#39;s too much for you, how about having fun scaring people for a living with the Ghost Bus Tour Company in the UK who <a href="https://www.theghostbustours.com/work-with-us/">are currently recruiting in London, York and Edinburgh.</a> We have similar companies in Ireland too! So, if you&#39;re a good actor and like dressing like a Ghoul, this could be the perfect job for you! Spooky Hotels Or how about working in a Spooky Hotel? According to Spookyisles.com we have a lot of haunted hotels in Ireland such as; Ballyseede Castle, Tralee who have a ghost called Hilda. Right now, they&#39;re recruiting for an experienced Banqueting Waiter, so you could work alongside Hilda, who&#39;s reported to have scared guests so much back in March 1998 that they all checked out in the middle of the night with fear! Other hotels listed on Spookyisles are Glin Castle - Limerick, The Lake Hotel - Killarney, Kinnitty Castle Hotel - Offaly, The Shelbourne Hotel - Dublin and Renvyle House Hotel in rural Galway. I&#39;m sure most of the Ghosts are friendly ones, but it was in Renvyle that Yeats is alleged to have experienced the presence of a teenage ghost, clutching his hands to his throat. Want to spend a night in one of Ireland&#39;s many haunted hotels?<a href="https://www.spookyisles.com/2015/04/irelands-10-most-haunted-hotels/"> ANN MASSEY O&#39;REGAN has picked the 10 spookiest hotels to scare your bed socks off!</a> Phlebotomist What about being a Phlebotomist?…Oh yes it involves blood! This is a job that could freak some people out! But if you&#39;re not squeamish and you have a Fetac/QQI Level 5 in ANY discipline, you can study for a Diploma in Phlebotomy with Synergie Education.ie. Courses are run in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Athlone &amp; Naas. This could be a great opportunity for someone who is currently working as a health care worker and wants to up skill themselves. For more details click here:<a href="https://www.synergie-education.ie/diploma-in-phlebotomy"> click here</a>. Paranormal Investigators There&#39;s some spooky volunteer positions available as well, for example Paranormal Searchers Ireland welcomes applications for volunteer trainees to join their non-profit team of investigators. Their objective is to prove the existence of Paranormal activity, capturing evidence of Ghosts, Spirits, Legends, Demons, Angels and everything supernatural. <a href="https://www.paranormalsearchersireland.com/">Sign up here.</a> But remember, no matter what you do for a living or fun, the most important thing is NOT TO BE AFRAID OF HARD WORK and it&#39;s okay to be a little bit scared sometimes as you move up the ladder…being scared means you&#39;re about to do something really, really brave! Happy Halloween! JobAlert.ie specialises in filling jobs quickly through our Website and Social Media. Right now, we have over 215,000 followers on Facebook alone - covering all counties. So, if you need to fill a vacancy your Job Ads can get plenty of exposure with JobAlert. You can choose which counties you&#39;d like to hit and actively engage with both active and passive job seekers. By the latter term, we mean we are reaching candidates who may not actively be looking for a job change, but if they see a job on their newsfeed they will apply – this makes a big difference when you&#39;re recruiting! We keep costs low pricing starts from just €99 for a once off Ad. There are no contracts or hidden fees with JobAlert.ie, you just buy Job Slots and use as you require. <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/post-job/packages">Place your Ad here </a>

Spooky Jobs

Do you remember the saying &quot;a job won&#39;t come knocking on the door&quot;? Well that could still be true to a certain degree, but they might pop up in news feeds instead or come through job alerts these days, thanks to advances in technology.  I help people find jobs, that&#39;s what I do for a living. In 2013, I set up some jobs pages on Facebook, purely on a voluntary basis to share positive news about employment opportunities, courses for job seekers, up skilling opportunities and Government incentives and schemes for people who had been affected during the recession.  At that time, I was lucky enough to be in full time employment as a HR Generalist dealing with Cabin Crew for a major Airline in Ireland. I spent a couple of hours each evening searching for vacancies and useful employment news to share on to my followers. I never envisaged at that time that these Facebook pages could turn into anything else but a place to support jobseekers through their struggle in extremely difficult times. I just wanted to keep spirits up, never wanting people to give up their fight to find employment. After all, I&#39;m a big believer that a job is not just a pay cheque, keeping busy is also so important for the wellbeing of our souls and minds too. There&#39;s a whole other side to employment and careers that doesn&#39;t involve money.  My tag line at that time was &quot;In every job that must be done there is an element of fun&quot; with a picture of Mary Poppins flying to her next job with her magic umbrella. And it&#39;s true, work can be fun if you find the right job and have job satisfaction, using your best skills and talents of course! With improvements in our economic climate, thankfully a lot more jobs came on stream. I was approached by companies asking if they could pay to advertise their vacancies on my pages. The recession had taught us a lot of lessons, one of which was to be shrewder about spend. These companies were not prepared to pay the fees being asked by other job boards such as jobs.ie and irishjobs.ie, who are charging €765 and €1050 respectively for 1 job Ad. Of course, there&#39;s lots of options out there that may not cost you as much, like Monster.ie and Indeed.com but employers were being told by new recruits that they found their new job through our pages on social media, not a website so it was a no brainer to find out more. We had discussions and through negotiation we decided that <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/post-job/packages">€99 + Vat</a> was an acceptable price point. Word spread and JobAlert.ie was formed from that point onwards. Of course, I had to drop &quot;Poppins&quot; due to copyright infringements but thankfully we&#39;ve gone from strength to strength since then.   So, we continue to reach jobseekers, not by &quot;knocking on doors&quot; as the saying goes, but through their phones, in their news feeds and these job alerts and job announcements work. Our team not only advertise jobs, we provide a full service which consists of writing job specs, setting up sponsored campaigns for clients&#39; vacancies, designing and producing graphics and providing support to our clients depending on their needs. Candidates apply directly to employers through email or career pages with their CVs or completing application forms - depending on what the client requires. We can link our website with any external system through ATI integration so options are limitless.  We also provide support free of charge to both working and unemployed candidates, so we&#39;re helping those wishing to make a move and also people who have found themselves on the dole queue, benefits or welfare for various different reasons. Loss of a job can happen through redundancy, sickness, having to take time out to care for children or aged parents. So, support needs to take different forms to fulfil individual needs. We provide job hunting tips and information about alternative flexible working like part-time options and work from home opportunities. We also help early school leavers and those wishing to pursue Apprenticeships – even when they may face a battle to convince their parents of their choice at times – see our article <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/are-we-talking-our-kids-out-of-apprenticeships">Are we talking our Kids out of Apprenticeships? </a>  We give advice on <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/land-that-dream-job">CVs &amp; how to land that dream job</a>, <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/dress-for-success">dress codes</a>, <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/interview-q-a-s">interview questions</a>, <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/how-to-get-a-summer-job-with-no-experience">how to get a job without experience</a>, even use of social media and how it can hinder your job search – see our article <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/blog/disgracebook-the-power-of-social-media-when-job-hunting">Disgracebook</a>! – the Power of Social Media when Job Hunting! There&#39;s so much to contend with these days when looking for a new job. Right now, JobAlert.ie has over 200,000 followers nationwide, 2.1m Reach and 380,000+ Monthly users on our website. We reach people in every <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/jobs-by-county">county</a> in Ireland through targeted pages on social media and we now have London Job pages also - we&#39;ve designed a model and new technology that can work in any market in the World. For now, let us help you <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/employers">fill your vacancy</a> in Ireland quickly and with the least amount of spend.  To Advertise or for more information on how we can help you click here; <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/employers">https://www.jobalert.ie/employers</a> Contact Details; Pamela – 086 8187033, <a href="mailto:pamela@jobalert.ie">pamela@jobalert.ie</a>

Jobs knocking on Doors!

Retail giants Argos have announced they&#39;re hiring 310 staff in Dublin and Ireland to manage the busy Black Friday and Christmas periods. The UK retailer is looking for customer advisors and stock assistants to help meet customer demand during these peak shopping times. The company says it will offer mostly 20 hours per week contracts with fewer hours available on request. New team members are promised &#39;competitive hourly rates, a variety of shifts, a fun and friendly team culture and the chance to develop new skills through training&#39;. There is also potential for some seasonal roles to become permanent, where vacancies exist. Angie Risley, Group HR Director said: “Black Friday and Christmas are busy times in retail and it’s really exciting to work with us during the festive period. &quot;If you enjoy helping people, like working in a team with friendly, enthusiastic colleagues and want to learn new skills, then this is the right job for you.” For more information on how to apply <a href="https://www.jobalert.ie/job/christmas-staff-argos-argos">click here</a>

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