Archive for the ‘Science & Scientific’ 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.
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Dont let Ebenezer Lenihan Ruin your Christmas
Twas a few days before the budget, and all around the house, Nothing stirred, not even a mouse….
What festive cuts can we expect this year and what will it all mean for you and I? Christmas… Bah Humbug!
Assuming that we don’t all get looted while the law is on strike, we can assume that we will all be a bit worse off, but we were expecting that. Life will be a bit more of a struggle and, if we were to believe the general theme of the press, one could be forgiven for thinking that this may well be the last Christmas ever - such are the prevailing prophecies of doom for our little isle.
I for one do not think that that the level of doom and gloom is warranted. I’m fed up of people saying that it’s going to be an awful Christmas. Have people forgotten what it’s all about? Did the Celtic Tiger take away our sense of magic? Santa may well be affected by the budget too and his gifts may be more frugal. Does that make him any less wonderful than I remember him from my own childhood?
In recruitment we have seen an upturn. It is not a huge one, but it is an upturn never the less. Businesses know that if they are not growing and finding new ways to do business better than their competitors, then they are not going to pull through. The point some people seem to be missing is that a large percentage of our businesses have been through recessions before. They have the experience to know what is required to pull through it.
All you nurses, doctors and other medical staff know that you are going to be in demand. Nursing was a popular career choice during the 80’s when nursing offered security above and beyond that of other careers. With the Celtic Tiger came a feeling of entitlement. If the country is so rich, where is the share for the front line workers? But that has changed again. Now there is nothing. Nothing? There is security in a career that will always be in existence, you will always be needed.
It holds true for all medical staff. Science careers are also more assured than most. Ireland is putting considerable resources into maintaining and indeed accelerating R+D investment. Simple economics are at play here (the type that even I have no problem understanding). More exports = More money coming into the country. This is the best way of increasing a countries wealth. So to get more revenue in we need to export. Develop and sell. The multi-nationals have a huge part to play here too. They create jobs and even with the tax breaks available to them, they contribute to this land of ours through taxes.
In the 80’s we lost huge numbers of our skilled workforce abroad. Now, with fewer opportunities in far away lands, we have a wealth of people right here. If we can tap into our own resources we may just find that we are in a better position than we were back in the days of bad hair styles and leg warmers.
Enough of the bah humbugs! Let us make merry with what we have and work hard at creating a more affluent new year!
Tags: Celtic Tiger, Create Jobs, doctors, Festive Cuts on the way, Front line workers, Last Christmas...ever, Leg Warmers, looted, Make Merry, Medical Staff, nurses, Prophecies of Doom, R&D, Science Careers, Simple economics, Skilled workforce, Tax Breaks
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
A Diverse range of Medical Devices are manufactured today
Where are all the jobs? A question a lot of people are asking these days as they scour job boards and recruitment agency sites after months of news about redundancies, layoffs and wage cuts which have forced people to look at pastures new.
Well within the science and technology sectors, it does appear as if there are still some job opportunities for engineers and professionals within the green sciences and medical device manufacturing sectors.
Companies such as ESB, Open Hydro and Aertricity are investing billions in green renewable energy technology projects and are attracting attention from overseas as well as at home. All of these companies retain considerable hope and expectation that these markets will not just be in demand this year but will expand further in the years ahead as the global energy market shifts away from our reliance on fossil fuels.
Over 140 companies in Ireland export €6 billion euros in medical devices which consutitutes nearly 9% of total exports. Medical device manufacturing now employs over 25,000 people in Ireland and is spread through out Ireland covering aspects such as R&D, imnno assay test kits, precision tooling and moulding, micro component, manufacture, New product development.
The geographic spread and range of products and services offers potential to science and technical graduates through out the length and breath of the country offering employment opportunities within every region in Ireland. This is a positive as it reduces the strain on civil and commercial infrastructure that has previously been exerted upon Cork and Dublin as a result of certain industries clustering in on regions that offer strong IT and Utilities infrastructure.
Several Irish Recruitment Agencies are now gearing themselves to support these paticular sectors including Jackie Brown Medical which has dedidcated Science and Technology desk covering all aspects of life science recruitment covering Medical Device manufacturing jobs, Green Jobs, plastics jobs, moulding jobs and a host of other related science and medical jobs in Ireland today
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Further Investment by Pfizer in R&D at their Cork facility confirms Ireland as being a competitive and attractive site
Ireland still continues to attract Foreign Direct Investment
for foreign direct investment. Over €11 Million is being invested at the Ringaskiddy Process Development Center (PDC) plant.
This facility will be a center for research and development centering on advanced manufacturing and enhanced production techniques which will be utilsed at Pfizer plants globally. Technologies developed here will have the potential to drastically reduce associated costs for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) as a result of optimising and improving on current manufacturing systems in use.
For further news please visit our blog/ news page.
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
R&D
The preeminence of R&D at UCD is very much in evidence and globally renown. Despite the shortcomings of the current government and its recent track record on the economy, its long term investment strategy in relation to R&D appears to be on target. €14.8m is being invested over the next five years in the Systems Biology Ireland Research Centre and will be centered at the UCD campus, already home to NIBRT, (National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training).
It is hoped that this will make Ireland a leader in the consolidation of computing, maths and biology and will further enhance Ireland’s attractiveness as a site of foreign direct investment for the future as this state of the art computing center will considerably promote Ireland as a significant R&D center of expertise and scientific research in addition to being a major scientific contributor in the fight against cancer and various other life threatening medical conditions
Adding to the attractiveness of NIBRT’s direct industrial applications and capabilities potential, the consolidation of computer modeling and study of biological systems offers a similar appeal to R&D clients. Collectively these will present considerable marketing advantages for Ireland as a center for foreign direct investment and offers enhanced potential for collaborative projects which can only improve Ireland’s already excellent reputation for world class scientific and engineering professionalism.
For more news on developments and employment opportunities in science and technolgy in Ireland, please visit our news and jobs pages
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Wafer Fab Technician at Work
The Appliance Of Science by Irish Engineers and Scientists is not to be underestimated and should be a beacon to those who have followed in their wake. More so today in a time where jobs have been outsourced to cheaper locations overseas for example from manufacturers such as Dell who have recently outsourced from Limerick to Lodz in Poland.
In the past year alone, Ireland has had the misfortune of seeing large numbers of jobs outsourced to low cost economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Undoubtedly we have not seen the end of these events and perhaps this is symptomatic of a maturing economy and a further reason to develop a more cohesive strategy of moving toward a knowledge based economy that offers greater numbers of high end / value jobs.
To this end on a more positive note we have seen investment flowing into Ireland by a number of Multinationals who have decided to base their R&D centers here. Intel, Diageo, Pfizer, Boston Scientific and Hewlett Packhard to name a few have all announced plans to establish or expand existing research facilities which encouragingly are not focused in any one sector but are diversified into almost every high tech sector ranging from nano robotics, polymer sciences, medical devices, semiconductors, biopharma and advanced manufacturing systems.
Irish scientists have been at the fore front of scientific research following in the footsteps of Robert Boyle, the father of chemistry, George Boole, the father of computer science, Francis Beaufort, author of the Beaufort scale. There are no shortage of gifted, inteligent scientists in Ireland today and it is a compliment to our educational system that Ireland globally, is well represented across all fields of modern scientific research and development
Modern Irish Scientists and Engineers are developing and applying scientific principles to all aspects of Industry that will someday provide the nucleus of high end manufacturing facilities that will anchor employment in Ireland and provide jobs for our graduates ensuring we do not experience the brain drain that hitherto has been experienced as a result of limited job opportunities for locally educated graduates and professionals.
For further news and information on opportunities as they develop please feel free to visit our Jobs Pages
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