Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Jackie Brown Medical Grows
Jackie Brown Medical are proud to announce further growth.
Experienced Medical and Science Recruiter Elaine Lambert has just joined our team here at Jackie Brown Medical. Elaine comes to us from Techstaff International Ltd where she specialized in Science Recruitment, specifically Environmental Science recruitment. While at Techstaff, Elaine built up a fantastic relationship with a vast number of clients and is looking forward to working with them once again.
Elaine has 5 years Recruitment experience and is “delighted to be a part of the continued expansion of Jackie Brown Medical”.
Elaine’s science background, medical knowledge and personable nature will make her an invaluable part of the team at Jackie Brown Medical.
Elaine can be reached at elaine@jackiebrownmedical.ie or on (01) 2016363.
Tags: Elaine Lambert, Jackie Brown Medical Growth, Medical, Medical Recruitment, Recruitment Growth, Recruitment Team, Science, Science Recruitment, Techstaff, Techstaff International
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
From ATM to AMT (Advanced Manufacturing Technology)
Banking on it, the banking industry in Ireland today is suffering with almost 800 jobs are going in Bank of Scotland, Ireland/ Hallifax. Today people are looking elsewhere for employment prospects that offer security and good salaries.
Currently those conditions only appear to exist in either the public sector at senior clerical officer grades or within certain growth sectors in the Irish economy such as Medical Device Manufacturing or within Medical Sales. Both of these sectors are exhibiting phenomenal growth despite the current down turn.
Positions such as those for Medical Technical Sales rep, Chief Science Officer, or Senior Injection Moulding Engineer are on offer from a variety of major employers such as Vistakon, Mergon, KCI, Medtronic or HSL. All these positions offer considerable career prospects and attractive salaries that still hark back to the good old days of the early naughties.
Tags: Bank of Scotland, Chief Science Officer. Senior Injection Moulding Engineer, employers, Employment Prospects, Hallifax, Ireland, Irish Economy, KCI, Manufacture, Medical Device Manufacturing, Medical Devices, medical Technical Sales Rep, Medtronic, Mergon, Naughties, Public sector, Vistakon
Posted in Candidates, Medical Devices, Medical Jobs, News | No Comments »
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Back to the Brain Drain of the Eighties
A New Order seems to have decended on the Irish employment front with salaries being one of the most obvious signs that things have changed in Ireland and that the Celtic Tiger is becoming more and more of a distant memory.
The New Order today for job applicants requires greater flexibility in taking on job roles that require increased duties for in most cases salaries as much as 15 to 20% less than previously paid less than two years ago and job descriptions that have expanded responsibilities which would have previously merited increased pay but now are considered mandatory and simply part of the job.
Additionally we see greater flexibility demanded of candidates required to take work further and further away from home requiring longer commutes and in some cases having to be transferred overseas to sister offices whilst the current economic conditions prevails.
Job seekers should consider this as temporary however as these were similar conditions some of our earlier readers may remember existed in the eighties when emigration was the order of the day. But that order changed too and then came the boom of the mid nineties bringing us to the recent present.
The key point to remember is things do change no matter how bleak or omnipresent that they can appear. Our current downturn will change but it requires willingness to accept change to current or previous existing terms and flexibility to continue working in order to survive the harsh conditions we must go through today to meet the eventual upturn of tomorrow.
Tags: Candidates, Celtic Tiger, commute, downturn, economic conditions, eighties, emigrate, employment, flexibility, future, Irish, job, job applicants, job descriptions, job roles, job seekers, New Order, nineties, overseas, pay, Salaries, upturn
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Suspended for posting pictures on facebook.
In Scotland a nurse has been suspended for posting pictures of patients during operations on facebook.
The location of the pictures was identified by a NHS logo in the background. Social Media is great, and I know that the last post here was about marketing yourself and showing that you are an expert in your field, but that was not clever.
It should be noted that the patients were not identifiable in these pictures, which were snapped in a Glasgow hospital. It is also claimed that most other staff (if not all) were unaware that the pictures were being taken. That strikes me as a somewhat strange claim in a theatre environment.
Back in October of last year Facebook stepped up their security, filling in some security holes that allowed people to access photos in private profiles. Even in a protected profile, any pictures on Facebook can not be assumed to be secure though. They are visible to friends, who can copy and disperse them further. In general it should be assumed that anything you ever put up on the internet is not secure. What’s more it should be assumed that anything you put on the internet is there for ever. This applies to data you delete too. There will be caches of old information that retain a copy of deleted information.
The Scottish nurse that posted the pictures on Facebook is suspended pending an internal investigation, but it would be surprising if he/she is not hung out to dry for such a breach of confidentiality, even if the patients were not identified.
Tags: Add new tag, Glasgow Hospital Security breach, NHS, Nurse Suspended, Op pictures on facebook, Operation pictures on Facebook, Patients not identified in operation pictures, Social Media gets Nurse Suspended, suspended for facebook posts
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
How to spend your time more productively
Its not the end of the world it just looks like it! Snow and Ice seems to have kept a lot of us at home yesterday and today but that doesnt mean that the world stops. Thanks to the internet and e-mail its still possible to keep in contact and to assess whats happening in your career.
Although it may be irritating that you have work to do at your desk and cant make it in to be physically present, it can sometimes be benificial from a number of perspectives being at home when you are snowed in.
Primarily from a safety perpective there is little benifit to you or your employer if you attempt to come to work only to end up coming to harm as a result of being stuck in a snowdrift for the majority of the day or being stressed to the point of a nervous break down as you slip and slide your way to work as usual or worse still; find yourself stuck behind an articulated truck which appears to be sliding unstopably towards you and your equally immobile car.
If you are at home and have as most people do these days, a home office, it may be possible to do quiet a lot of work contacting clients, drafting documents or reviewing plans that are sometimes difficult to achieve at work due to interuptions or staff meetings. When the weather clears it may then be possible to return to work with a clear mind and a fresh approach that may have not have been possible simply due to a lack of opportunity.
After all how many of us have found that a few hours away from the desk to think can allow you to see the woods for the trees rather than feeling like you are reacting to events rather than driving them?
Tags: career, career change, Internet, Irish Weather, safety, Travel Advice
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Working together for the future
Economic Meltdown appears to have been averted in the 2010 Budget but this is small consolation for those of us in the private and public sector who now are bearing the brunt of the severest budget in living memory. The worldwide economic community appear to be full of praise but the reality is we, the Irish Nation will have to live with reduced incomes, strikes and reduced living standards for at least the next three years
The only positive aspect of all this is, that good or bad news what ever your perspective we at least now have direction and from here action can be taken. From an oft heard maxim, fear causes paralysis, action cures fear.
Perhaps at this point we may see a move towards job creation as the economic fire fighting that has so long been a feature of the governments performance in the past two years may soon move into positive decisive action that will encourage investment and bring us back to some semblance of order and perhaps to a new economy that leaves behind the pursuit of property as an end in itself and back towards an econmy that relies on Irish knowledge, skills and talents that brought prosperity in the recent past.
But perhaps this time we will remember what and who brought us today to the situation we find ourselves in as a nation and perhaps next time round we will be weary of sweet promises of today that bring a bitter tomorrow from those we previously regarded as the pillars of our nation
Tags: Dole Ques, Irish Economy, Jobs, Knowledge economy
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Protect Santa & our children from Swine
Hi guys,
We were being serious in an earlier post this week about the need for Santa to also be vaccinated for the H1N1 as he is at serious risk.
Imagine the amount of children who will be sitting on his knee this year?
In hot stuffy shopping centres across the country with queues a mile long!
The Swine Flu is highly contagious and can be passed by touch and contact.
Although Santa normally wears gloves, he may remove them when hot.
The H1N1 vaccinations take 3-4 weeks and it is less then 4 weeks now to Christmas.
We have appealed to Mary Harney - Minister for Health to help this Santa appeal to protect our children and him.
With all the tragic stories of flooding, economic downturn and looming budget, please don’t let anything happen to Santa.
We have just started a facebook petition. If you have children who will be in contact with Santa this year sign up! All you have to do is click on the “become a fan” button on the Immunise Santa Facebook page.
Tags: Christmas, H1N1, H1N1 immunisation, H1N1 vaccinations, Immunise Santa, Mary Harney, Protect Santa, Santa, Save our Santa, Save Santa, Swine Flu
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Social Networks sites like Face Book and Twitter continue to grow
Facebook is taking up more space at the docklands as news comes of a further 70 jobs being created in the social networking sites head quarters based in the heart of the Dublin Docklands.
These badley needed new jobs are being created in engineering, sales and finance and are further testament to the growth in social network sites as previously discussed on this blog.
Facebook is based in California and has over 300 million members and over a million members here in Ireland. Those stats alone are seriously worth considering for Irish Medical Recruitment Agencies looking to tap into the current talent pool in Ireland and abroad.
Small wonder that as previously discussed on this blog, social networks are clearly percieved to be the way forward in future recruitment. Indicative of this were the comments of facebook’s CEO, Sheryl Sandberg, who said at the company’s video presentation yesterday, that the company had not really considered anywhere else other than Ireland because of the number of qualified people here in Ireland.
Ireland has seen a considerable increase in numbers of highly qualified medical, science and R&D professionals looking for jobs in the fields of Medicine, Science, Research and Development and the recruitment for these jobs is moving further away from traditional jobs boards to the universally available mediums of social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Heres to a brighter more social future.
Tags: CEO, Compliance Manager, Engineering, Engineers, Facebook, Finance, IT Jobs, Jackie Brown Medical, LinkedIn, Medical Jobs, Medicine Jobs, Moulding Engineers, QA/QC, Qualified Engineers, R&D, R&D Research and Development, Regulatory Affairs, Research and Development, Science Jobs, Science Recruitment Agency, Social Networks, Talent aquisition, Twitter
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