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Among the best in the World

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Irish Surgery

Irish Surgery

“Irish Surgeons are among the best in the world, Professor Traynor of the RCSI says.

Due to a lack of adequate surgical training posts, it seems Irish trainee doctors have been pushed to greener pastures in a search for sufficient experience elsewhere. This has helped them to join the best in the world in surgery.

Prof Oscar Traynor, Director of the RCSI National Surgical Training Centre recently said that Irish surgeons owe a huge part of their excellence to training abroad.

“I think in general, Irish surgeons are among the best in the world, for a number of reasons. The main reason is that most Irish surgeons do take time to go abroad and do some training and bring back ideas, a new way of looking at things, and new techniques”

He goes on  to say that it is tradition with Irish surgeons to broaden their experience range, where in countries like UK and North America it would be highly unusual to go to this extent.

It seems, for the medical world in any case, the benefits of surgical training abroad has had a phenomenal effect on the Medical industry of Ireland.

And long may it go on!

R&D at UCD

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R&D

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

Grab your job with both hands!

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Keep your job!

Keep your job!

Hi guys,

We are getting calls every day currently from people who are trying to change jobs or change career and our advice right now as employment is so insecure, whatever job you have right now, grab it with both hands!

This is not the time to change career direction unless of course redundancy is becoming a risk and you have to upskill or change career direction.

Alot of Sales people are trying to get in to Medical or Pharmaceutical Sales and this is proving more difficult without a Medical/Science qualification and Medical Sales experience.

We hear of redundancies being made every day and for these people we can offer little advice or encouragement as the economy dictates this situation.

Alot of people are turning to college and up skilling which seems to be having a positive effect.

However, if your current job is secure, do not look to change anything as it may not be the best job you ever had, but now is not the time to do anything about it as in a new Company, your will be the last in and therefore the first out as the Redundancy cloud looms.

In a nutshell, whatever your current job is, if it is secure, grab it with both hands.

The time for change will come when the market turns for the better.

HR & Recruitment join forces…..

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one-teamI am delighted to see the merging of the two professions in the shape of  the HR & Recruitment Ireland website.

For too long now, the two professions have been separated. We are all too familiar with separate HR and Recruitment departments in large organisations.

As a Fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), I have been  disappointed by the CIPD publications in the past as they have been very UK focused and not relevant to the Irish market. I am glad to see that the HR & Recruitment Ireland website has taken up the thread here and given us an Ireland focus.

On this website, Recruitment professionals as well as  HR professionals can look for industry information in their field . People can air their opinions on the Opininons/Analysis section of the website and this can be a great platform to exchange ideas and gain up to date information on areas such as Compensation and Benefits, Staff Health & Wellbeing and Training.

HR and Recruitment professionals can learn a lot from each other and it is good to see this happening in the form of the HR & Recruitment Ireland website.

Contributions in the form of articles from both HR and Recruitment professionals are helping to bring these professions much closer.

The foundations are now being set for the HR and Recruitment departments of large organisations to join forces and start working together as one team.