FAQ: What jobs are listed? When? Are they still available?

When are jobs listed here

Jobs are added to this website when we notice a sign in a window, or an advertisement, or a public Facebook posting. Windows in the city-centre are checked for job-signs every few days, but this is not on a regular schedule:– not every street is visited every day.

We don’t claim to list every staff-wanted sign in every window: some signs are up and down before we can get there to take a photograph, some are in places we haven’t noticed or haven’t visited recently.

But we do aim to give daily updates to people who cannot visit the city centre each day.

What jobs are listed?

The goal of this website it to list real paying jobs, which would traditionally have been advertised by putting a “Staff Wanted” sign in the window of a shop or factory.

The “real jobs” promise means:

• no commission sales, 
• no work-experience programmes, 
• no extended work-trials.

Employers must must also be legal: doing work that is not illegal, and paying the correct tax and PRSI “stamps” for employees ie not paying under-the-table.

The “advertised in the window” part means that most of these jobs are easy enough to get: few require qualifications or extensive vetting or pre-employment checks - and people in them tend to change jobs quite often.

How do I know if a job is still available?

A “staff wanted” sign in a shop etc window probably mean that there is a job still available. But it may not: the employer may have hired someone and forgotten to take the sign down, or they may be collecting CVs for future jobs.

In the same way, when a sign is taken down from a shop window, it probably means that someone has been hired and there are no more jobs available. But maybe the employer changed their mind. Maybe the person they job was offered to changed their mind. Maybe someone else left in the meantime. All sorts of things might have happened.

Putting all this together, only the employer knows if a job is still available. Because of this:

• When we see a job-ad in a window, the listing has the "On-display" tab added to it.
• When we notice that the sign advertising a job has been taken down, the "on-display" tab is removed. 

Also, jobs are only deleted if we find out that they are not real jobs (see What jobs are advertised), or if a business asks for them to be removed for a good reason, eg if wrong information was put on a sign.

How to see the jobs

• You can see the jobs that were added most recently on the Home page.

• You can see all the jobs with the "on-display" tag by looking at the Current Jobs page.

• You can search all the jobs on the website on the Search page.