Jackie Brown Medical are nominated 3 times!

 

NRF Awards Ceremony

NRF Awards night

Jackie Brown Medical were nominated 3 times on the Annual National Recruitment Federation Awards Ceremony last Friday @ the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin.

The 3 nominations were -

  1. Agency of the Year
  2. Best in Sector – Medical and Healthcare
  3. Best Online Service for our fantastic new website and online presence.

The Team here are very proud to have been nominated so many times and we wish to thank our Client Companies and our Job Seekers for remaining our inspiration for striving to be the Best Medical Recruitment Agency in Ireland.

 

Jackie Brown Medical launches new website!

Alert!We have just celebrated our 4th Birthday @ Jackie Brown Medical and have given the Business a Birthday present of a fresh and fabulous new website which it deserved!

We now have movement, interraction and life on our site.

We have a Social Media aspect

We have used our job seekers and Clients comments and input in to the content and design.

We have kept the same high standard of Compliance and made it very user friendly.

As the business grows, we learn more and have more to give to you, our readers.

We have features such as our Advice Centre which gives solid advice around interviews, CV layout and Medical Sales which remains one of our Specialist sectors across Medical Recruitment.

We are very excited about it and will watch over the coming months it’s performance with Google and it’s bots!

In 2008 and 2009 we were short listed for ‘Best Online Service’ @ the National Recruitment Federation Awards and we are now aiming for the overall winner.

We couldn’t have done it without you, our readers, so please do keep your comments and feedback coming as it is very important to us to remain on top of our game.

 

Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

Jackie Brown becomes a Fellow

We are delighted to congratulate Jackie Brown on being awarded Fellowship of the National Recruitment Federation (NRF)

She has also recently successfully completed the only Recruitment Practice qualification in Ireland – The NRF Cert in Recruitment Practice.

She is currently one of the only people in Ireland with these 2 Accolades.

Speaking about her recent Award and Certificate, Jackie says – ‘I am thrilled with becoming a Fellow of The National Recruitment Federation. It is essential as Recruiters in Ireland, we are encouraged to always be proud of what we do and to become better at what we do. The more the NRF do to keep the Recruitment Practice in Ireland as a Profession to be proud of and one to be commended, the better.

We take our job seekers careers in our hands every day and it is so important to represent them as professionally and to the best of our ability.

It is not only their career, more often these days, it is their livelihood and life balance and we can make a difference to them. That is both an honour and a priviledge and we must have confidence and capability for our job seekers to be able to trust their future in our hands.

The NRF have been brilliant for our Industry in Ireland in terms of bringing it forward to a profession to be proud of and recognised.

The Code of Conduct and now the recent Certificate Course they have commenced will go a long way in ensuring that Recruiters takes this Profession seriously and our job seekers can be assured of a Legal and Professional Practice when they hand their career and future in to their Recruiters hands.

I am personally and professionally thrilled to now represent my Job Seekers and Client Companies with 11 years experience in Medical Recruitment, Fellowship of the NRF and now the Certificate in Recruitment Practice.

In my own Business @ Jackie Brown Medical, it is standard practice that we are Members of the NRF and Recruit at the highest possible standard and we use the NRF Code of Practice in all we do.

When I won the’ Recruiter of the Year’  Award in 2008, this was of benefit to my Business to ensure Best Practice at all times. Now with this Fellowship and Certificate in Recruitment Practice, this will now ensure we continue to work at the highest possible standard of Recruitment for our Job Seekers and our Client Companies.

It has been a long time coming, but the NRF are to be commended for their continued effort to reward and encourage this Best Practice in Recruitment Industry in Ireland’.

What motivates a Company to choose a Recruitment Agency?

An imperative to work together can be a decider of sucess

An imperative to work together can be a decider of sucess

What motivates a company to choose a Recruitment Agency?

Some might consider cost should be the single prime decider. However, this is a questionable basis for making an important decision; ask yourself, how safe would you feel if you chose cheap tyres for your family car!

Therefore client companies tend to consider more than the simple cost of provision of recruitment services. Again it may be alright as long as everything works out- but when rathet than if it doesnt work out; using the wrong provider can be a very costly lesson to learn and to correct.

Once queried on his professional service costs by a client, Red Adair, the famous Oilwell Firefighter simply replied;

 ”If you think its expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur ”

So what do client companies want from recruitment agencies?

  • Client Companies want  Recruitment Agencies that can show they understand their business and are committed to them.
  • They want an alternative opinion to their own, a business partner who works with them and not ambivalence when there is the possibility of another independent perspective being offered which may help and improve the overall recruitment process.
  • They want to see delivery on promises made and not just empty promises.
  • They want to hear sorry when a mistake is made and not blame shifting which is both unconstructive and shows an inability to learn from mistakes.
  • They want a Recruitment firm that involves themselves with the candidates, by taking an interest in the candidates motives and reason for coming on board with their client.
  • They want to see Recruitment firms that can demonstrate a long term rather than short term view of the client business relationship.

Hitting all of the above heavily influences the decision of a company to use a Recruitment Agency and is obviously a key decider of  the long term business future of a Recruitment Agency and can be the difference between a Recruitment Agency surviving or going under in a recession.

Therefore real commitment to the above factors for sucess are also an imperative for both quality and survival.

Swine Flu Vaccination for Santa!

Santa protesting that he should be immunised againse swine flu

Santa protesting that he should be immunised againse swine flu

Santa has made a good case for being classed as a priority for swine flu vaccination.

He cited the fact that he comes into close contact with millions of children in the run up to Christmas in grottos all over the world, and added that he personally handles all the presents he delivers on Christmas Eve.

Santa has also made a plea that his elves also be immunised against Swine Flu as a matter of urgency.

The H1N1 swine flu virus is extremely contagious.  Given that children are already classified as an at risk group it makes sense that Santa and his helpers be immunised as a matter of urgency.

Jackie Brown Medical are calling on Minister of Health Mary Harney to address this situation immediately.

Facebook is taking up more space

Social Networks like Fcae Book and Twitter continue to grow

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.

Where are all the Jobs?

A Diverse range of Medical Devices are manufactured today

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

Give something back

Interview and CV preparation skills

Interview and CV preparation skills

It’s always nice to give something back to those who you work with. In the case of recruitment its nice to give something to those that recruiters most depend on to ensure their business’s continue to function;-ie the job seekers.

Many Irish recruitment agencies spend a lot of time taking CV’s but not giving  enough feedback to those who are unsuccessful  in their application but none the less have taken the time to respond to the advertisements that the agency has  run. If they didn’t reply the agencies wouldn’t  have the CV’s they require to support their clients requirements and by extension they would have nothing to offer to sell their recruiting services.

As recruiters work continually involves the professional assessment and presentation of CV’s and daily interviewing of candidates, they are uniquely qualified to present valuable insights and advice to candidates, and to enhance their candidates with the maximum possibility of achieving success in not only winning an interview, but also maximising their competitive potential against opposition at their individual interview.

The NRF has recently taken measures to address this and has set up workshops to educate those who require information on a variety of topics on areas such as CV and interview preparation. Jackie Brown Medical, an NRF award winning recruitment agency in particular, has provided it’s applicants with specialised tips and advice on a wide variety of professional topics to ensure and to enhance their job hunting prospects in today’s challenging employment market for medical professionals seeking work in the medical jobs recruitment market.

Please feel free to visit our website to read our testimonials and to review our advice center topics if you are looking for a winning CV or tips on how to get the best out of agencies and interviews. Its worth your while and our pleasure to help.  After all, its nice to give something back.