Tag Archives: Medical Recruitment Agency

Reason for Leaving

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CV writing

CV writing

One of the most common questions Employers ask when they see a job seekers Curriculum Vitae (CV) is their reason for leaving their current or last job.

We advise regularly on CV writing to our job seekers and this is an area we cannot emphasise enough.

It is essential on your CV as a job seeker to clearly state your reason for leaving each job.

This can be done in one line at the end of each job and makes it alot easier for an employer to gauge if a job seeker is a ‘hopper’ – someone who leaves jobs after a short time regularly, or a ‘stayer’ – someone who shows commitment and longevity in the work place.

Employers prefer the latter.

It may simply be the case you have had contract positions, or a baby or many of the good reasons to only be in a job a short time, but if you do not state your reasons for leaving on your CV, you are left wide open to the wrong interpretation which may be the difference between an Employer dismissing your CV or not.

As a Medical Recruitment Agency, this also helps us to analyse our job seekers better.

So remember, when submitting your CV to a Recruitment Agency or directly to a Company, always state your reason for leaving after each job.

Recruiting more NCHD’s will reduce overtime bill

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Recruiting NCHD's to reduce overtime bill

Recruiting NCHD's to reduce overtime bill

The HSE will end up with more NCHDs in certain specialties than the number of existing vacancies after it allocates trainee doctors currently being recruited from India and Pakistan, Irish Medical Times exclusively reports.

 

Correspondence seen by IMT reveals that this is as a result of a deliberate plan taken at corporate level and with backing from senior management.

“As part of the allocation of Indian/Pakistani doctors from the centralised recruitment process, an additional number of doctors are being allocated to certain specialties in excess of current vacancies,” states the letter dated July 8.

According to the correspondence, the corporate motivation is to reduce overtime pay or eliminate agency cover, enhance compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and improve the quality of services and working lives of doctors.

Some of the country’s largest rural and regional hospitals are set to spend up to 10 times more than the 2005 figure on agency workers to fill staff gaps this year. Despite HSE plans to reduce spending on agency workers, costs continued to rise steadily in the first three months of 2011.

As of July 4, HSE-centralised NCHD recruitment had received 1,791 applications over five rounds from February 28 to June 30, with NCHD vacancies at July 11, the date of the changeover, at 150.

The plan to hire an excess amount of NCHDs has been agreed by the National Directors with the Regional Directors of Operations (RDOs), IMT understands. Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) ceilings will not be an issue in circumstances where there is evidence that significant savings in agency/overtime can be achieved.

In line with the correspondence, sent to some local managers and clinical directors and copied to RDOs, the amount of doctors allocated would be determined by the numbers of new employees arriving from India and Pakistan. At the end of May, the Executive said more than 240 doctors from India and Pakistan had applied for visas and legislation to introduce a new classification of NCHDs has now been passed.

Local hospital management were requested, in the correspondence, to review their overtime/agency expenditure and EWTD compliance by specialty and to advise by last Friday (July 15) if this allocation could be utilised to reduce or eliminate overtime and agency costs or to enhance EWTD compliance.

The HSE expressed appreciation that this additional allocation could potentially involve changes to rosters or changes in cross-specialty cover, which in turn could generate negotiation with staff representatives.

Jackie Brown Medical are hiring!

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Medical Recruiter wanted

Medical Recruiter wanted

Here at Jackie Brown Medical, we are hiring!

Our team is expanding and we are seeking an experienced Science/Medical Recruitment Consultant.

We have very high standards throughout our Recruitment process and an Award winning reputation we are proud of.

Our Staff are our key to our success.

If you want to be part of the Award winning Jackie Brown Medical Recruitment Team -

 

What we are looking for -

  1. A Medical or Science Recruiter
  2. Living in South Dublin or Wicklow
  3. 2-3 year Medical Recruitment experience
  4. A proven Recruitment Sales track record
  5. A Recruiter who is a strong Candidate advocate
  6. A Business Developer
  7. Someone who is passionate about Recruitment
  8. Aware of NRF guidelines
  9. Target driven
  10. A professional

If you have what we are looking for and wish to apply, please send your CV to -

jackie@jackiebrownmedical.ie

3 Hospitals responsible for longest waiting lists in Ireland

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Patient Waiting Lists

Patient Waiting Lists

There are 3 main Hospitals responsible for the longest Surgical waiting lists in Ireland.

Approx 50% of all patients waiting over a year for surgery are under the care of -

Tallaght Hospital

Temple St Children’s Hospital

Midland Regional, Tullamore

This is in accordance with the latest figures from the National Patient Register

 At the end of April, 611 patients were waiting over 12 months for Surgical Procedures.

115 of these were Tallaght Hosp, 79, Temple St and 73, Tullamore.

Some positive news though. Compared to the figures collated from last year, this is a nearly 50% decline in numbers of patients waiting over a year.

A spokesperson for the National Treatment Purchase Fund – NTPF made the point that the average waiting time across all Specialties across the Public system in Ireland for both Surgery and Medicine remains at a historical low of 2-3 months.

The NTPF are now concentrating on the few patients left waiting still over a year for Surgery with the hope they can help in reducing this waiting time.

Other peoples’ opinions can be dangerous

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Other people's opinions

Other people's opinions

Other people’s opinions can be dangerous – always check it out before making a decision based on them.

We have had 2 recent episodes where our job seekers had been told by other people negative things about the Company they were applying to for a job and nearly pulled out as a result.

This is where word of mouth can be dangerous.

Check out the facts yourself first before making such a critical decision regarding your career and life balance.

Both cases were unfounded and it transpired that these were ex Medical Sales Reps who had left both Companies on a bad note and were both spreading negative feedback about these Companies down the Medical Sales Grapevine.

If you are a job seeker, you need to be very thorough in your methods and your research.

It is okay to hear negative things about the Company you are considering, but check it out – try to get a balanced non biaised opinion.

We are very thorough as Recruitment Consultants within the Medical Industry and will know whether rumours or word of mouth is true or not as we know our Client Companies very well and can therefore advise.

However, it is still imperative you seek out both sides of story and DO NOT let one person’s opinion dictate your career path.

Doctor Doctor!

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Doctor Doctor!

Doctor Doctor!

 

Kicking off the weekend Doctor Doctor theme -

 

Patient – ‘Doctor Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains’?

 

Doctor – ‘Well sit down and pull yourself together’!

Recruiters. We Need You at Jackie Brown Medical

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Are you a Medical or Science Recruiter?

Jackie Brown Medical is growing.  We need an experienced Recruitment Consultant to join our Award Winning team.

For Full details of this position click on the job description here: Medical or Science Recruitment Consultant

The Medical Jobs Blog at Jackie Brown Medical

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Welcome to the Medical Jobs Blog here at Jackie Brown Medical.  This is the tool that we will use to communicate current events in all Medical fields.  If there is something new happening in Nursing, Radiography, Medical Sales, Pharmacy,

Medical Jobs in Ireland

Medical Jobs in Ireland

or any other area that has a connection to Healthcare and Medicine then this is the place to look for information on it.

This Medical Jobs Blog is for job seekers and employers who want to keep up with current events.  It will feature articles on the industry and also on recruitment agencies and how to get the best out of using whichever recruitment agencies you are dealing with.  We know that job seekers use more than one recruitment agency, in fact we encourage it.  We want this blog to be a place where you can leave comments and direct the contents of the blog to information that you would like to see.

It’s not all about Medical Jobs or even Medical Recruitment though.  We will also be providing some lighter content for your amusement.

In short, if you are a job seeker looking for work with a Medical or Healthcare based company, hospital or clinic, or if you are an employer wanting to keep in touch with recruitment trends or our observations on your own field, then you should sign up to the RSS feed by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.  Maybe you are one of our competitors looking for information to keep up with Irelands fastest growing Medical Recruitment Agency.  You are all most welcome and we look forward to seeing your comments.