Receptionist (Auctioneering Firm)
- Where
- Kilkenny City
- Division
- Office & Administration
Same city as the desk it is being worked from.
Kilkenny · recruiting since 2009
Six 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.
Board as it stood on 1 September 2026.
See every live role
Where the work is
5 counties · 1 officeSenior Estimator
- Where
- Mayo
- Division
- Construction & Design
The far side of the country, and still worked from Ormonde Street.
Bid Manager
- Where
- Mayo
- Division
- Construction & Design
The second Mayo brief on the board this week, for the same construction desk.
Health and Safety Officer
- Where
- Munster
- Division
- Health & Safety and Environmental
Briefed province wide rather than to one town, so the marker sits at the centre of Munster.
Internal Sales Representative
- Where
- Laois
- Division
- Sales & Marketing
The next county over, and close enough to meet the client on the way home.
Sustainability Engineer (LEED AP)
- Where
- Dublin
- Division
- Environmental & Life Sciences
An accredited role in the capital, run from a desk in Kilkenny.
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.
Practice and industry, nationwide
Qualified and part qualified finance roles across accountancy practice, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, hospitality and financial services.
Michelle FlemingRecruitment Consultant
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
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
Technical, design and manufacturing
Technical and design engineering across the Republic, backed by an ERF Certificate in Recruitment Practice.
Alan MaherTechnical Recruitment Consultant
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
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.
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The questionnaire
Completed online by the people you select. It takes 25 to 40 minutes and can be done before or after interview.
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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.
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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.
- Office10 Ormonde Street, Kilkenny, R95 R2HY
- Phone056 7786631
- Emailcareers@optimizerecruitment.ie
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