Press

​Sigmar in the Media

​

May 2023

• Do I have to sit with people? Covid graduates on working in an office for the first time

​

April 2023

• Lessons from the Talent Summit: How HR is taking centre stage (The Currency)

​

​March 2023

• Sigmar Recruitment (Grand Prize Winner, 51-Plus employees, Ireland, 2023) (Staffing Industry Analysts)

• Robert MacGiolla Phádraig - Ireland is an island at the centre of the global economy  (Newstalk)

• Adie McGennis - Ireland Gateway To Europe live from New York City (Newstalk)

• Clare Kelly - There's always someone who has an Irish connection (Newstalk)

• The answer to the financial crisis was the CFO. But post the pandemic the Chief People Officer has come to the fore  (The Currency)

• The global tug-of-war of work will be played out at Talent Summit Dublin (The Irish Times)

• NASA hope to put humans on Mars 'in the next 15 to 20 years' - Deputy Director of NASA (Talent Summit mentioned on Newstalk March 2023)

​

February 2022

• Is the novelty of remote work wearing off? (Robert Mac Giolla Phadraig, The last word with Matt Cooper, Today FM)

​

December 2022

• An overview of the labour market for the next 12 months (The Irish Times)

• Opportunities aplenty in the life sciences sector (The Irish Times)

• Ask not what the company can do for you but what you can do for the company (The Irish Times)

• Solving the inflation equation (The Irish Times, American Chamber of Commerce Supplement)

​

November 2022

• In Dublin, It's Elon Musk Versus the Housing Market (Bloomberg) - Article is behind a paywall, but can be viewed for free here

​

October 2022

• Ireland Gateway To Europe: The Hard Shoulder LIVE in London, with Adie McGennis, CEO at Sigmar Recruitment (Newstalk)

• Ireland Gateway To Europe: The Hard Shoulder LIVE in London, with Robert Mac Giolla Phadraig, CCO at Sigmar Recruitment, Neil Naughton, President of Glen Dimplex/Boston College Ireland Business Council and Conor McEnroy, owner of Sudameris Bank in Paraguay. (Newstalk)

September 2022

• Job hunting the tried and tested way - Looking for a job can be a difficult business. We look at how a new graduate might best approach the challenge (The Irish Times)

• ‘We’re looking at a culture war’: The growing divide between bosses and staff over remote working (Business Post)

August 2022  

• Paulstown native set to cycle 750km from Paris to Nice to raise funds for Saplings school in Goresbridge (The Kikenny People)

June 2022

• Cork is in a great period of sustained growth: Denis Cremin, Munster Manager talks about how we have doubled our operation in Cork in the last 12 months (Business Plus Magazine - Page 80)

April 2022

• The Changing Landscape of Recruitment for SMEs: Interview with Adie McGennis (World Trade Centre Dublin)

• 'Flexible and adaptable' Irish third level graduates attracting foreign direct investment (Mike McDonagh, Director, Sigmar Recruitment on the Hard Shoulder (Newstalk)

• Tech Talk with Jess Kelly. Jess talks to Adie McGennis, CEO at Sigmar Recruitment and co-founder of Ireland Gateway To Europe (Newstalk)

• Highlights of Ireland Gateway to Europe - Chicago Leg with Adie McGennis, CEO at Sigmar Recruitment and co-founder of Ireland Gateway To Europe (Newstalk)

• Highlights of Ireland Gateway to Europe - Boston Leg with Adie McGennis, CEO at Sigmar Recruitment and co-founder of Ireland Gateway To Europe (Newstalk)

March 2022

• Ireland Gateway To Europe: Sigmar CEO Adie McGennis and Clare Kelly, Director at Glandore chat Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk about our upcoming Ireland Gateway To Europe FDI trip to the US in April. (Newstalk) Listen back at: https://bit.ly/3vyBEUk

• SIA announces 2022 ‘Best Staffing Firms to Work For’ (Staffing Industry Analysts)

  ​

February 2022

• Irish SMEs grab pole position in talent race (The Sunday Times)

January 2022

• Skilled workers salaries set to surge due to staff shortage (Newstalk Radio Interview with Sigmar CEO, Adie McGennis)

• Job placements see record rise in 2021, but talent shortages predicted to be single biggest threat to economy (Staffing Industry Analysts)

November 2021

• The Great Recruitment of 2021: Pandemic leaves chronic staff shortages (The Irish Times)

October 2021

• Robert Mac Giolla Phadraig talks to Matt Cooper on The Last Word (Today FM) 

• More Remote Working - The Deputy Chief Medical Officer has urged everyone who can work from home, to continue to do so. But do people want to continue to work remotely? (RTE Radio, The Business)

• Could ‘the great return’ cause a mass exodus and skills shortages? (Silicon Republic)

• Surge in resignations as employees defy bosses on return to office (The Irish Times)

• Ireland - Surge In Resignations As Workers Reluctant To Return To Office (Staffing Industry Analysts)

• Impossible to find anywhere': Housing crisis impacting on company recruitment in Cork (Echolive.ie)

September 2021

• Gigs: No reopening date leaves events industry frustrated (Dublin's Q102)

• The big short: As Covid curbs lift in Ireland, businesses struggle to fill positions (The Sunday Times)

• What skills do employers look for in candidates? (The Irish TImes)

​

July 2021

• Recruitment market for professionals at its most buoyant ‘in 20 years’ (Irish Times)

• Sigmar Recruitment sees record level of job placements in Q2 (RTE.ie)

• Job Placements reach record high in Q2 : Sigmar Recruitment (Staffing Indstry Analysts)

• Jim Power: Covid will leave its mark on employment for years to come (Irish Examiner)

• Tallaght rep. condemns new work experience placement scheme (FM104)
  

June 2021

• The short-handed recovery(The Times)

​

May 2021

• Trouble on the home front: remote working puts a strain on graduate recruiters (The Times)
  

April 2021

• Post-Covid US trade mission planned for April 2022(RTE.ie)

• College during Covid: 'I can't say I've made any friends' (RTE.ie)

​

March 2021

• Nearly a quarter of workers will operate remotely after pandemic (Irish Times)

• Only a third will return to office full time post-pandemic - Sigmar/Aon study

• Return to the Workplace (RTE Radio - Audio Clip)

• Return to the Workplace (RTE.ie)

• Just one-third of Irish people plan to return to the office when pandemic ends, study shows  (The Irish Post, 3/3/21)

• Study shows just 34% of Irish workers will return to office full time after pandemic (Extra.ie)

• New survey shows only 34% will return to office full time after Covid-19

​

February 2021

• EU’s largest HR and leadership conference makes a return

​

December 2020

• SIA RECOGNISES ‘BEST STAFFING FIRMS TO WORK FOR’ UK & IRELAND

​

October 2020

• How to land a job during COVID-19
  

September 2020

• Graduating in 2020: hiring landscape has changed but opportunities beckon