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TWO MORE MIGRANT boards issued distress calls in the Mediterranean today with more than 20 people reported drowned.
The International Organisation for Migration said it received a distress call from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean carrying more than 300 people, with at least 20 people reported dead.
Distress calls
As the search for victims from yesterday’s shipwreck continued, the International Organisation for Migration said it had received a distress call from another boat — but cautioned against concluding this was another disaster in the making.
Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said separately that Italy’s coast guard had asked merchant shipping to help two boats off the Libyan coast with up to 450 migrants on board after they sought help.
Police in Greece meanwhile reported three people killed, including a child, after a boat coming from Turkey sank off the island of Rhodes.
Dramatic YouTube footage showed people trying to reach survivors huddled on a piece of wreckage as they were being swept towards rocks. Ninety-three people were rescued alive, police said.
EU meetings
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini unveiled plans today to tackle the growing migrant crisis after telling member states they had “no more excuses” not to act.
EU foreign and interior ministers met in Luxembourg on the issue.
More than 700 migrants are feared dead in yesterday’s disaster, with some survivors suggesting nearly 1,000 people could have been on board.
Europe’s southern shores have been swamped over the past two weeks with migrants fleeing war and hardship, mostly via conflict-wracked Libya.
Action plan
Unveiling a 10-point action plan, Mogherini said the 28-member bloc needed “to show that same collective European sense of urgency we have consistently shown in reacting in times of crisis.”
The EU had to live up to its humanitarian values and commitments towards migrants, she said, adding:
To send them back is another way of killing them.
First on the list, ministers agreed the current EU border surveillance mission Triton should be increased to extend its range and capabilities on the bloc’s southern flank.
The EU will also try to capture or destroy people smuggler boats and increase cooperation across the board, the European Commission said.
The bloc will offer too a “voluntary pilot project on resettlement, providing a number of places to persons in need of protection”.
Up to now, countries relatively untouched by the problem had objected to this form of burden sharing, however small.
Diplomats said there could be 5,000 places available but the Commission gave no figure.
Emergency EU summit
EU president Donald Tusk announced an emergency leaders summit for Thursday to discuss the plan, saying:
We cannot continue like this, we can’t accept that hundreds of people die.
Italy’s Renzi, whose country bears the brunt of the problem, said Rome was studying the possibility of mounting “targeted interventions” against Libya-based people smugglers.
“Attacks on death rackets, attacks against slave traders (traffickers) are in our thinking,” Renzi told a press conference with his Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat.
The charity Save the Children criticised the EU for not agreeing “immediate action” at Monday’s meeting.
“What we needed from EU foreign ministers today was life-saving action, but they dithered. The emergency summit on Thursday is now a matter of life and death,” said the group’s head Valerio Neri in a statement.
Search continues
Italian and Maltese navy boats meanwhile continued to search for the victims of yesterday’s disaster, which brings to an estimated 1,600 the number of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.
Only 28 survivors have been found so far, along with 24 bodies, which were taken to Malta.
One survivor told Italian authorities there were as many as 950 people on board and that some had been locked below deck by the smugglers.
The tragedy caused an outcry across Europe, where newspapers declared it the “EU’s darkest day” and called for urgent action.
UNHCR head Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the Mediterranean was turning into a “vast cemetery” and accused the EU of “turning its back on some of the most vulnerable migrants in the world.”
In Washington, the US State Department said it was cooperating with the EU on the issue and providing assistance closer to the migrants’ “point of origin”.
Call for help
IOM’s Rome office said earlier today it had received a call for help from one of three boats floating near each other in international waters.
“The caller said that there are over 300 people on his boat and it is already sinking (and) he has already reported fatalities, 20 at least,” IOM spokesman in Rome Federico Soda wrote in an email.
His colleague Flavio Di Giacomo however warned that so far IOM only had the word of the caller to go by.
“For now, this is simply a call for help… It’s too soon to talk about a shipwreck,” he told RaiNews24.
He said migrants often make distress calls even when they are not in a desperate situation to ensure they get picked up.
Off the Greek island of Rhodes, at least three people, including a child, died when a boat carrying 90 migrants sank.
The boat ran aground on rocks off the Aegean island on a crossing from Turkey. Video footage, shown above, shows survivors, including children, being pulled from the sea as water crashed onto the rocks. Authorities said they rescued 93 migrants, 30 of whom were hospitalised.
Victims
Italian and Maltese navy boats today were still scouring waters off Libya for the victims of yesterday’s shipwreck – feared to have cost the lives of hundreds of people.
But the outlook appeared grim, with only 28 survivors rescued so far, along with 24 bodies picked up by the Malta coast guard.
One survivor told Italian authorities that there were as many as 950 people on board and that some of them had been locked below deck by the smugglers.
Yesterday’s tragedy came after a week in which two other migrant shipwrecks left an estimated 450 people dead.
© – AFP 2015 with reporting by Michelle Hennessy.
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They can see past spelling mistakes… obviously they do the recruitment for thejournal
@Nick Allen: The headline actually says the opposite.
I wonder how they feel about comprehension mistakes…
You really zinged them there.
@Dermo Adams: I see I see says the blind man, the hole in the wall, ah ha says the deaf man, you cannot see at all
@Dermo Adams: He was disagreeing with the headline. You’re allowed to that, you see.
@Nick Allen: Haha, that was the first thing that came to mind when reading this!!
Jobs.ie has turned into minimumwage.ie
@Bart: True data ah sure isn’t the economy recovered, sure we all have 9 euro an hour jobs.
@Bart: have to start somewhere.
Standing there like he controls ALL the jobs. I own the jobs lads. They’re mine!
Spelling mistakes on cvs are a very simplistic and unqualified means of overlooking people for jobs. Everybody makes mistakes. You could be overlooking a lots of very talented people.
@Adrian: *a lot of very talented people
@Vigo the Carpathian:
Einstein, JFK, etc. didn’t have automatic spell checkers available to them.
If one is bad at spelling, the very least you could do, if preparing to present the best possible representation of yourself on paper/ online, is click the spell/ grammar check menu option in Word. Jeez c’mon!! There’s no reason to defend not doing that.
It might not be a red card offence, but it’s like defending coming in to an interview with a lump of porridge and jam on your face. It’s an indicator.
It’s evident (from the comments section of the Journal at least) that crap spelling is ubiquitous. The app even offers an automatic spell checker. Some / most are even too lazy to use that.
@Adrian: Why don’t people spend €10 to have a professional proofread their CV? It is easy to do, cheap and shows a level of professionalism and attention to detail that many are lacking. I proofread and honestly, the standard of spelling, grammar and sentence structure that otherwise professional people have is often quite poor.
I agree that people shouldn’t be overlooked based on that but the fact is that people are and that it creates a bad impression of them.
@Adrian: you are 100% correct.
@Vigo the Carpathian: if someone is careless enough to leave mistakes in their cv, they will be careless at work. Not someone I want to hire. No excuse with spellcheckers and grammar checks
@Jazz Buckler: you can misspell a word with another word. Then the spell check doesn’t catch it and your brain doesn’t spot it on the proof read. Would Mr. Jobs.ie bin my CV because I put “spills” instead of “skills”?
@Adrian: please fokes can we get the spelling write
Job agencies has destroyed this country and peoples pay rate
@dick dastardly: *have destroyed
@Cathal: You do realise the comments section is neitjer a job application nor a spelling bee?
@Cathal: ha ha yea boat of them will do
@Neal Ireland Hello.: spelling bee? Are we in America now?
@Rob Cahill: I’m not, but I understand the Internet, unlike Settle, is available internationally, so there may well be people here from the United States.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: *unlike Aertel
@dick dastardly: very true
Well if he’s going to judge a book by its cover I wouldn’t work for him. Obviously he is considering the negatives over the positives and would always be on the lookout for mistakes and ignoring any positives or improvements.
Yeah – poor spelling is an indication to me that I should avoid the applicant. Lack of care and attention to detail. Get someone to check your CV – not everyone is a good speller
@Martin Byrne: Use spellchecker!!!
@Martin Byrne: if you can’t spell your a gonner ,is that it
@Jack Jackson: well then would that knot be fooling people
@FlopFlipU: it’s not the inability to spell. It’s careless and your first contact with an employer. When that comes off as careless then it puts you to the back of the queue. Things like you’re and your are things that stick out like a sore thumb. And if there are other cvs that show care and thought to ensure it’s correct then you have a better shot.
@FlopFlipU: It may be contended that bad style or spelling are not important if the words are understood, but they do show slovenliness which reflects on the writer.
@Jack Jackson: a spellchecker is a first step but it won’t sort your principal from your principle or affect from effect etc. Many of us also suffer from overzealous autocorrect that mangles words we have typed correctly.
@Damien Mc Padden: Some actual writer’s are bad speller’s .I heard them say it on interviews on Rte on a least two occasions .There are thing’s called talent ‘s a good interviewer can spot that ,a lot depend’s on the job available sometimes a good bladderer is the man for the job
@FlopFlipU: and a lot don’t know when to use an apostrophe
@EvieXVI: no one is biting.
@Martin Byrne: you sound just like a robot, please see intelligent logical comments above.
You’re a goner.
@EvieXVI: exactly
He lost me at spelling mistakes and Donal Skehan…Very little job areas that require manual writing now; computers, spell check etc are more the norm…Also linkedin and actual interviews can tell more about a person than a CV.. anyone can make one of those up! He might need to come into the 21st century.. and read up on ‘chef’s… the fact that he follows the RTE crowd, thinking Donal Skehan is innovative and writes his own scripts, is a big red flag for me….
Someone who doesn’t understand the role they’re hiring for would filter CVs that way. It’s a stupid way of filtering CVs in my opinion. I’ve read email threads with MDs / project leads etc making basic spelling and grammar mistakes. A neat CV doesn’t mean they’re 100% literate. Invite a candidate and talk to them about their experiences and pose challenging questions. That’s how you gauge a candidate. CVs are fast becoming redundant.
@Will: challenging questions! Like – if you were a dinosaur, what dinosaur would you be? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I would be a Geckosaurus, and in 5 years time I see myself in a hammock, ordering my third alcoholic beverage of the day, and it’s not even noon. When would you like me to start?
Just because your CV has perfect grammer, spellings doesn’t mean that you can do the job. The same goes for all the courses you do it also doesn’t mean that you can put into practise what you’ve studied. Experience goes a very long way, this is just my opinion.
@bings: and mine as well ,there is a lot of crap out there that I have discovered over the years about all this type of thing
@bings: true, I was in college with a now qualified solicitor and an accountant and neither could even boil potatoes hadn’t a clue. The girl came home one evening with a Tesco ready meal and put the cardboard box and all into the oven!!!!
@bings: grammar. Haha sorry, had to point it out. I agree with your point.
@James Thorn: I think your the only one who got the spelling mistake. But I work with people who couldn’t organise a pixs up in a brewery.
I never use this site, INDEED and JOB ALERTS are my job searching site choices, now I have another reason not to use this sight. Thanks for confirming my view that a ponce like this actually vets CVs and doesn’t send them on as is stated on this poorly designed and runned minimum wage site.
“For me, it’s a really simple thing that still baffles me when I see it: spelling mistakes on CVs – it’s a simple way to not get yourself a job or interview.”
Obviously Chris Paye wasn’t sifting through CV’s from prospective Journal employees.
Haven’t fill out a CV in 30 years. My last 2 jobs I walked into the office & both my managers knew who I was. When can you start was all I was asked. If you decide your talent based on a CV then your company will be full of people good at filling out CVs.
His biggest mistake was using a duvet day prize? Really?
A profound waste of space jobs.ie , cluttered with factional jobs and vulture recruitment agencies seeking to harvest resumes.
Think of all the great talent missed by this guy and others over such petty s****e. What if the job applicant suffered a bit o’ dyslexia, autism or some other literacy issue we haven’t yet identified. I know from re-reading stuff I’ve written but didn’t check, for whatever reason, a spelling and/or grammatical error jumps out like it’s in block red capitals making me look either careless, illiterate or manic. Or all. One of the most capable, competent, thorough, hardworking, dependable, reliable and caring people I know is “functionally illiterate.” I haven’t got room here to describe their emotional intelligence, solidarity and loyalty. But they wouldn’t be able to complete the first line on a job application form. For a man so fixated on detail, his open/just dragged out of the wardrobe
@Paul Jennings: shirt collar look is popular but looks like he couldn’t be arsed to make an effort for the camera. See…anyone can be petty. And I’d far rather work for/with someone who made the odd spelling mistake than someone with a cheesy sense of humour. Wonder if he spotted I used one too many * in the first line of my comment…
@Paul Jennings: He says “ensuring your CV is correct and doesn’t have any spelling or grammar errors” I think Mr Paye the correct word you should have used is “grammatical” however we all make mistakes, don’t we?
Minimum wage vs emigrants minimum wage, company’s or your c.v. in Ireland?
A person who never made a mistake never made anything.
Do a lot of recruiting over the years. Generally find the odd spelling mistake in cv’s. It would never stop me bringing person for an interview. Generally find a relaxed interview that’s shows the candidates true personality is best way to judge.
Lost me at donal skehan
This guy must be a genius
Until there is more work than people then anyone will do
How can EACH of the jobs receive on (sic) average number of applications ?
@WCS: Because all the site really offers is low skill, minimum wage, drone jobs…
AS General custard said at the battle of little big horn , i am effed
To be honest, the World of Work is greatly over-rated. A one could be perfectly happy never doing a hand’s turn (was that the correct use of a possessive apostrophe?) as long as you had benefits and Netflix…
If someone wrote to him saying they believed he harbored a grudge against them ( against writing saying they harboured a grudge against them) now would be react.?
I agree with the spelling mistakes comment but when I was searching for a new job last year I saw lots of poor spelling and grammar in job postings and many from recruitment agencies
@Bart:
have your say