Verify Recruitment Launched

Media Release

Experience is the key to unlocking the recession, says Verify Recruitment

Ireland’s newest recruitment agency has appointed an exclusive panel of industry experts to source and vet their candidates.

16th November, 2009 – Dublin, Ireland: The middle of a recession may not seem like the most obvious time to launch a recruitment company but Verify Recruitment, the new Dublin agency aims to make a name for itself by leading a major shift of recruitment practice in Ireland’s burgeoning IT sector.

With the growing complexity of skills needed for ever more challenging technology, and the sheer pace of change in IT, recruitment companies simply do not have the level of knowledge to truly understand a client’s requirements, outline those needs to potential candidates and to accurately match candidates to roles.

Verify Recruitment believe’s a new approach is needed in order to meet the increasing demand for individuals with a wider range of expert IT skills, coupled with business acumen. The Dublin-based company has found a unique solution to this problem, they have appointed an independent panel of industry leaders from the IT sector who will provide expertise to the firm in sourcing, assessing and reviewing each candidate before they are referred for a client’s vacancy. Verify will also only specialise in filling positions that require candidates with more than ten years’ professional experience.

Cathal Grogan, Managing Director, Verify Recruitment, says:

“The IT sector is crucial to the future success of Ireland, it is one of the few sectors of the economy that is still expanding and it is the engine that will drive the country out of the recession. For this to be achieved we need to have experienced individuals with a track record of success in establishing, growing and expanding cutting edge companies and driving efficiencies in order to ensure Ireland can compete on the world stage.

“The concept behind the Verify Panel is to ensure we always have access to industry expertise. This is crucial in the IT sector where there a multitude of skills and sub-sectors that are changing all the time. The Panel will review candidates from their own area of expertise in order verify the skills and experience of everyone we recommend, thus ensuring they are the exact fit for our clients’ requirements. Expert skills can only be assessed those who are experts themselves.”

Each member of the Verify Panel has been chosen on the basis of their experience and knowledge of a particular area of IT, so that Verify has a broad range of skills to call upon. This includes people from the financial services, telecommunications, retail and software sectors. This allows every candidate to be vetted by a member of the Verify Panel with similar experience to the candidate and position on offer, therefore allowing a much thorough selection process.

Meet the panel

All the Verify Panel are true industry leaders that have a track record setting up and managing successful IT businesses in Ireland. These include:

Fergus Donohoe MBA has over twenty years experience in senior management positions. For the last 10 years he has been helping companies update their business practices. Notably Fergus was also one of the founders of Smart Telecom, where he was Chief Operations Office and Company Secretary until 2004. Prior to this he founded ECHO S.A.; with operations in Belgium and France.

Jayne McTiernan was formerly Operations Director with Merrill Lynch in Dublin. An experienced financial services operations manager she specialises in implementing shared services centres and redesigning business processes to drive efficiencies throughout an organisation

Derek Hardiman is a technology leader with a track record in delivering sophisticated technical solutions to a broad range of industries. Previously CTO with ZeroTouch, Head of Technology at Daiwa Securities and Director of Client Technology at SmartForce.

For more information please contact Simon Palmer of Republic Public Relations on: +353 (0) 1210 3520; email: simon@republicpr.ie; or Twitter @simonprepublic

Notes to Editors

Verify Recruitment opened in Dublin in May 2009 and is led by Cathal Grogan.  Cathal has 20 years experience in the IT industry, and has held senior positions in Program & Project Management, Product Management, Management Consulting, and Change Management in local and multi-national organisations, within Enterprise  Software, Financial Services, Contact Centre and Automotive industries.