Free for candidates, and every job in one place

In August we made everything for candidates free and put every open job we track on one page, alongside new reference pages on how Irish employment permits work.

Everything for candidates is now free

From 15 August, every feature on the candidate side of IrishTalents is open to anyone with a free account. That covers the ranked job recommendations in your workspace, the full report from the visa check, the complete suggestions from the CV rewrite and the outreach template in your tools. The home page now carries the line "Free for international candidates" above the fold.

Search every open job from one page

IrishTalents Jobs opened on 17 August with roles from recruitment agencies in one list, where before you had to open each agency's profile to see its vacancies. Roles that mention sponsorship come first, followed by those from employers with recent permits, and you can switch to newest first. Search matches every word you type against the job title, in any order. Later that week we added the roles employers publish on their own careers pages, credited to the employer.

A page for every job

Each vacancy now has its own page with the full description, laid out with the headings and lists the advertiser wrote instead of one block of text. Where the employer is known, the page shows how many employment permits it had issued in the last 12 months, from the government record. We also read the sponsorship wording in each advert more carefully, so a line like "not eligible for visa sponsorship" is no longer taken as an offer.

See which recruitment agencies are hiring

The recruitment agency directory now lists the agencies with open roles first, with each agency's logo and a filter to show only those that are hiring. On an agency's profile you can search its current vacancies, which appear above its licence record and are ordered by what they say about sponsorship. Licensed agencies can also claim their profile, while the licence details stay exactly as the official register publishes them.

Guides, comparisons and a glossary

We published six guides to the Irish permit system, among them the General Employment Permit, the Critical Skills Employment Permit and the Labour Market Needs Test. We also added side-by-side comparisons of four pairs of routes, such as the General Employment Permit and the Critical Skills Employment Permit, with the date each rule was checked against the official sources. The glossary explains 47 permit and immigration terms, each linked to the page where it matters. All of it is information, not legal advice, and each page links to the official source to confirm with before you apply.

Permit figures for your country

Work in Ireland from has a page for each of the ten nationalities with the most employment permits issued, from India and the Philippines to Brazil and Nigeria. Each shows the permits issued and refused for that nationality, the record over five years, and whether you need a visa to enter Ireland, all taken from published government statistics.

Sector pages

Eight sector pages, from healthcare and social care to software and IT, bring together the occupations in each sector with their position on the official occupation lists, the permits issued in that sector, the recruitment agencies that work in it and the professional registration bodies you may need to contact.

Smaller things

• The July 2026 permit figures are out, with a summary of where permits went that month.
• If you use Chrome and have not installed the IrishTalents extension, your workspace menu now offers it, and the entry goes away once it is installed.
• The country lists in your profile stopped emptying themselves, which had left some people unable to find their nationality or country of residence.
• The agency pages for each county, which had stopped loading, work again.
• Recruitment agencies have a page explaining how to work with us.
• A web address typed with a double slash no longer breaks the page.