Kilkenny · recruiting since 2009

203 live roles.One street.

Every vacancy on our board right now is being worked from one room at 10 Ormonde Street. Follow any of them back and you land on a division and a person who answers a direct line, not a reference number in a portal.

Read live from our board.
See every live role

Where the work is

20 counties · 1 office
Dublin Cork Galway Kilkenny

203 live roles · 20 counties

Every line on this map ends at the same door. Pick a county to see what we are working there today.

Dublin · 53 live roles

  • Accounts Manager
  • Senior HV Electrical Design Engineer
  • Finishing Foreman

53 live roles in Dublin, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Kilkenny · 36 live roles

  • Lorry Driver
  • Mechanical Design Engineer
  • Site Engineer

Worked from the desk in this building.

Waterford · 17 live roles

  • Retail Manager
  • Yard Manager
  • Senior Resident Engineer

17 live roles in Waterford, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Tipperary · 16 live roles

  • Assistant Accountant
  • Trade Counter Salesperson
  • Warehouse & Yard Operative

16 live roles in Tipperary, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Wexford · 15 live roles

  • Doors & Floors Specialist
  • Yard Foreman
  • Setting Out Engineer

15 live roles in Wexford, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Cork · 14 live roles

  • General Foreman (Finishes)
  • Site Engineer
  • Project Manager

14 live roles in Cork, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Galway · 14 live roles

  • Senior Project Manager (Civil / Structural)
  • Senior HSEQ Consultant
  • Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW)

14 live roles in Galway, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

Laois · 7 live roles

  • Civil / Structural CAD & BIM Technicians
  • Senior Quantity Surveyor / Commercial Manager
  • HR / Payroll Administrator

7 live roles in Laois, every one of them worked from Ormonde Street.

The board, by trade

What the country is hiring us for, right now.

This is not a brochure list of everything we might do. It is the actual shape of our desk today, read from the same board, and it moves every week.

Live from our board.

Building & Construction82
Environmental31
Engineering26
Manufacturing & Production14
Accountancy11
Retail7
Logistics & Supply Chain6
Marketing5
Who picks up your brief

Five desks. You get the name before you get the CV.

A brief does not go into a queue here. It goes to the consultant who works that market every day, and that is who you deal with from the first call to the day someone starts.

Accountancy & Finance

Practice and industry, nationwide

Qualified and part qualified finance roles across accountancy practice, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, hospitality and financial services.

Michelle FlemingRecruitment Consultant
HR & Office Support

The roles that keep an office standing up

Human resources, administration and office support, built on ten years in client facing and administration roles before recruitment.

Gemma ButlerLead Recruitment Consultant
Construction

Site, commercial and preconstruction

Estimators, bid managers, site and contracts staff, matched on the person, the role and the organisation rather than on a keyword.

Shane FlemingAssociate Director
Engineering

Technical, design and manufacturing

Technical and design engineering across the Republic, backed by an ERF Certificate in Recruitment Practice.

Alan MaherTechnical Recruitment Consultant
Health & Safety, Environmental

The roles a site cannot open without

Safety officers, environmental and sustainability specialists, drawn from twenty years of listening to what a customer actually needs.

Chris PlattsRecruitment Consultant
Since 2009

Started in a recession, on purpose

We opened in Kilkenny in the middle of the downturn, on the view that a market with nothing to spare is the one that finds out whether a recruiter is any good.

Eoin CareyManaging Director
  • Accountancy & Finance
  • Office & Administration
  • Construction & Design
  • Engineering & Manufacturing
  • Environmental & Life Sciences
  • Human Resources
  • IT Professionals
  • Sales & Marketing
Psychometric profiling

A CV tells you what somebody has already done.

It will not tell you how a person handles pressure, how a person sells, or whether a person will settle into the team you already have. For senior and business critical hires we can put a measured profile beside the CV, using the Craft Personality Questionnaire and its eight work related traits.

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Eight traits, scored and read against the role you are filling rather than against a hunch formed in a 45 minute interview.

  1. The questionnaire

    Completed online by the people you select. It takes 25 to 40 minutes and can be done before or after interview.

  2. Five reports, normally inside 24 hours

    Five individual reports come back per person, written to be read by a hiring manager rather than by a psychologist.

  3. An hour on the phone that changes the decision

    A 60 minute debrief with the individual, the manager, or both. This is the part that turns a document into a hiring call you can defend.

Ormonde Street

Seven people. Every direct line published.

Nobody here hides behind a switchboard. Ring the consultant who covers your market and you get that consultant.

Eoin Carey

Managing Director

In recruitment since 2001 and a director in construction and engineering agencies in Dublin before coming home to open in Kilkenny.

Mary Young

Financial Controller

ACCA qualified, with more than 25 years of senior management across technology start ups, financial institutions and energy consulting.

Michelle Fleming

Recruitment Consultant, Accountancy & Finance

A University of Limerick business graduate specialising in human resource management, now recruiting finance roles across the Republic.

Gemma Butler

Lead Recruitment Consultant, HR & Office Support

Ten years in customer facing and administration roles, then five in recruitment. Both halves show in how a shortlist is put together.

Alan Maher

Technical Recruitment Consultant, Engineering

Holder of the ERF Certificate in Recruitment Practice, recruiting technical, design and engineering roles nationwide.

Shane Fleming

Associate Director, Construction

A Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management from University College Cork behind a career spent finding the person, role and organisation fit on construction jobs.

Chris Platts

Recruitment Consultant, Health & Safety and Environmental

Twenty years of customer service and sales, much of it as the link between customers with specific requirements and the technicians who met them.

“We used Optimize Recruitment for senior vacancies within our business. From our initial contact & meeting I found that they had a really good understanding of our business, our culture as well as the requirements for each role. The team kept me fully informed throughout the processes.”

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company, client testimonial published on optimizerecruitment.ie
Recognition

Judged by the industry, and by the town

  • Small Business of the Year, 2017Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce
  • Permanent Recruitment Consultant of the Year, 2021Employment and Recruitment Federation, finalist
  • Recruitment Agency of the YearEmployment and Recruitment Federation, finalist
Talk to a consultant

Tell us the role. We will tell you honestly whether we can fill it.

If it is not a market we work in, we will say so on the first call rather than take the brief and go quiet. If it is, you will have a name, a plan and a timeline before the day is out.