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Kerry Lab wins ISO

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ISO for Hereditary Genetics

ISO for Hereditary Genetics

Kerry General Hospital’s Molecular Diagnostics Dept was awarded ISO-15189 by the Irish National Accreditation Board. 

On receiving the internationally-recognised accreditation, Kerry’s Diagnostics Department has become the first Irish public hospital lab to receive this honorary standard for genetic testing.

Under direction of Consultant Haematologist Dr Mary Cahill, the Kerry lab carries out tests for hereditary haemochromatosis.

The service Kerry General Hospital’s Molecular Diagnostics Dept, provide is said to save annual costs in the region of €70,000 per annum.

Congratulations to Kerry General Hospital, all the hard work paid off.

Every bit helps in the medical world!

Facebook is taking up more space

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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.

It’s not all bad news?

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High Value Jobs are still being attracted to and being created in Ireland

High Value Jobs are still being attracted to and being created in Ireland

Its not all bad news on the jobs market. IDA Ireland have announced in the past month alone a number of new expansion and investments by major multinational clients involved in Pharmaceutical manufacturing, R&D, software production, customer and financial services who will be creating several hundred science jobs  over the next five years.

Granted there have been job losses too; but these are high value jobs that continue to be created, are in the knowledge economy where long term investment is crucial as these attract additional support positions and are generally indicative of long term rather than short term commitment by MNC’s.

This is borne out by more  and more multinational firms who have decided to set up their research and development departments in Ireland, again a key indicator of long term confidence and future commitment.

Medical Device Manufacturing and advanced manufacturing firms employing plastics/ polymer, manufacturing and life science engineers  for the biopharma industry continue to recruit which can be attested by the high levels of activity within the Irish Recruitment agency market especially those catering for Medical and R&D Jobs.