A Physiotherapist or Physical Therapist is required for international travel.

A superb Physiotherapy job for someone available, experienced and flexible.

Must have a minimum of 6 years experience.

Manual Therapy would be essential as this is a role which involves travelling and working with athlethes.

You would have to be committed to this role and fully flexible in terms of travel.

A fantastic opportunity for any Physiotherapist or Physical Therapist currently seeking a new challenge.

We have received a requirement for a Nutrition Product Manager for a client in Dublin.

Candidates should:

• Be degree qualified in Marketing 
• 5-6 years experience in the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, FMCG or Medical Devices industry.
• 2 years experience in a Product Management role
• 1-2 years field sales experience is desirable
• Service Marketing would be advantageous

For more information please contact us with your most up to date CV

 

 

Things, it seems, are on the up in the Medical Device world and we now have the following urgent requirements:

1. Quality Validation Manager - Munster
2. Senior Electrical (Facilities) Engineer - Munster
3. Senior Mechanical Engineer - MidWest
4. EMEA Procedural Kitting Director - Midlands

So if you are from a Medical Device or high volume manufacturing background then please do get in touch

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

These are all permanent Medical Device jobs in Ireland.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon!

Medical jobs are looking good in Ireland.

We have a large amount of Medical jobs currently.

There are a large number of Medical Sales jobs and Pharmaceutical sales jobs

Also Science jobs and Nursing jobs.

For further information on these Medical jobs, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

It could be my imagination, but it seems to me that nurses are in higher demand than they have been over the last year.

The UK is screaming out for Irish Nurses in particular.  Unfortunately the weakening of sterling has made it less attractive for Irish nurses from a financial aspect.  There does remain though, the fact that the NHS is generally a much nicer system to work under than the HSE.  It’s not all bad here though.  And we are seeing nursing jobs begin to spring up despite the continued ban on recruitment.  Most of these jobs are private sector.

Nursing as a profession can be deeply rewarding, but threat of pay cuts and harder working conditions make it ever less attractive to school leavers, or even those who have been working as nurses for years.

It is hard work and it is sometimes dangerous work.  The plain truth of it is that nurses will always be in demand.  There will never be a time when this country is without nurses.  Just a few short years ago we were importing nurses because we could not find enough nurses to cope.  As our population ages we are going to need greater numbers of nurses again.  The cosmopolitan environment that exists in our hospitals, hospices, homes and clinics has doubtless been instrumental in aiding with cultural integration in this previously secular country.

Nurses have a lot to be proud of.  The contribution made by nurses to society is one that the nation should be eternally grateful for.  I know that nurses feel persecuted by the government, by cutbacks and by heavier workloads.  I think we may be reaching the bottom of the recessionary curve now though.  Things are looking up.

Have a look at some of the nursing jobs on offer!

Finding a job in medical or healthcare fields is more difficult now than ever.

There was a time, not so long ago that when you decided to look for a new job you picked up the paper on a Thursday or a Sunday.  If you really wanted to make sure you didn’t miss any jobs you also contacted a Recruitment agency or maybe two.

Then it changed a bit.  The online explosion of the web led to the creation of job boards.  In Ireland the biggest of these were IrishJobs, RecruitIreland, Monster and Loadzajobs.  All of a sudden it was no longer even necessary to buy a paper, you could surf jobs from your couch at home (or often from a computer at work).

Job sites made finding a job easier.  Job boards charged companies and Recruitment agencies a lot of money for the privilege of using their services to advertise their positions.

For a while it worked well.  But now finding a job is more complicated than ever.  There has been an absolute explosion of job boards.  Which one should you use?  To add to the complication recruitment agencies and even companies themselves are increasingly turning to social media for their recruitment.  So much so that CPL have just dropped IrishJobs. Simply because they no longer provided them with the value for money that was available elsewhere.

Social Media, Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Blogs.  New buzzwords are appearing all the time.  Recruitment agencies are reaching out over increasingly diverse online media.  Twitter alone is awash with job advertisements.  The popularity of Twitter is beyond the understanding of most of us born in an era when most companies did the books on paper and nobody had a PC at home.  So why would recruitment agencies use it?  Because it is popular and it is free.  Marketing and job advertising on social media cost little more than the time and effort to do it… and even that can be automated. Clearly it works for job advertising and job hunting.  It is all about connections.

Where does that leave the bamboozled majority?  I’ll explain it.  Social networking is about just that.  Networking (the social part has been hijacked by recruitment agencies and business in general).  The old saying holds true, “It’s not what you know it’s who you know”.  In the world of Linkedin and Facebook that translates to “It’s not what you know it’s who you linked to, and who they in turn are liked to”.

If you build a good network, you can find just about anything you want, including a job.

It is worth getting involved.  The more links you build the more people you are connected to.  When it truly was “Social” media, it was about linking to your friends over the internet.  Now it is much more than that.

A word of warning though.  Be careful what you post, and what your friends post.  If you are linking to anybody who you may be a potential employer, or at least help you find a job, then you do not want them to see from your profile that your CV is a work of fiction, or that you had the worst hangover in the world (again) and had to call in sick after yet another great night out with your mates.  Set up separate accounts for job finding if you can’t trust your friends not to write something incriminating on your wall.

So do you have to get involved in social networking now?  Not at all.  Recruitment agencies still perform the same function that they always did, the papers have less jobs advertised now though, so perhaps they are a better option than ever.  When it comes to medical jobs, chose a good agency.  Chose several.  Remember, finding a job does still involve people (even when it’s over the internet).  The internet is just a big newspaper.

It’s been a while since I posted and now the recession is in full swing.  Indeed, other countries are talking about the recession bottoming out and the first signs of recovery.  It certainly doesn’t look that positive for us in Ireland at the moment.

NAMA remains a bone of contention and there is no obvious clear policy for a comprehensive plan to get us out of the mess we are in.  Indeed, it looks like we are facing a winter of public service strikes.

There is some positive movement though.  The initial recession panic seems to have alleviated to some extent.  While we are still seeing some redundancies in the medical sector, the rate of job losses has decreased.

Pharmacies are still reeling from the double hit they have taken.  There is little to no movement in the Pharmacist jobs market.  Our advice to pharmacists is “If you are working stay put”.  There were pharmacy closures over the last year and profit margins have been squeezed.  Salaries for new hires have similarly been affected.  The days of six figure salaries are largely over for now.  We have gone from a situation where pharmacists were in demand and could obtain nearly any salary they desired, to one where is an oversupply of pharmacists for very few jobs indeed.  We do not expect a change in this situation for another 12 months.

Nurses are finding themselves under increasing pressure, not immune to the bitter bite of the recession either.  Staff are not being replaced, Agency nurses are finding that there are fewer shifts available and conditions are not as good as they were (I can hear the comments already).  Many nurses are looking further afield with Nursing jobs in Australia enjoying a larger than normal interest.  Given that as a rule we export a lot of our nurses in good times it is perhaps not surprising.

The pharmaceuticals industry has also undergone some restructuring.  The Pfizer Wyeth deal has not had the negative effect that many in the industry in Ireland feared. We have seen large scale job cuts in manufacturing though, with several companies announcing redundancies.

Medical Sales Reps have been having a mixed time on the jobs market.  There have been redundancies, but there are still jobs available.  The people worst hit by the recession in Medical Sales are the people who are trying to break into Medical Sales.  A sudden glut of experienced Medical Sales reps on the market has left the hopeful rookies with little hope in a market that was always a relatively difficult one to breach.

We are still importing medical professionals to Ireland for positions that we just do not have enough people in the Irish pool for.  These tend to be specialist positions across the board.

Allied Health workers may as well get a job in the local chipper for the time being.  Despite there being a desperate need for Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Workers, the budgets are just not there to hire them.  We are faced with a culture of marginalisation, where special needs requirements have been firmly shelved.

Health Care Assistants are having a rough ride too, as are any professions where there are an excess of people qualified for the position.  The Fetac qualification is fast becoming an absolute necessity.  Competition is fierce and agency shifts are ever thinner on the ground.  The best route to finding a permanent position remains in building contacts in individual hospitals and nursing homes while doing agency work.

Recruitment Agencies are reporting an upturn in the numbers of jobs available.  In the Medical Recruitment Market in particular there has been clear signs of improvement.

Want an update on another sector? Leave a comment.

So, you are in the job market.  Where do you start?  You could use a recruitment agency.

Let’s face it though.  Recruitment agencies have not got the best of reputations.  Here are 5 reasons not to use a recruitment agency.

Do not use a Recruitment Agency if….

1. You have years of experience in writing CV’s or are willing to pay someone to work on your CV for you. - A recruitment agency will not only give you advice on your CV, but will make it specific for the job you are applying for.
2. You don’t like interview feedback beyond the very basics. - A recruitment consultant can ask for more detailed feedback from an interview than you can.  This can give you a head start at a second interview or tell you where you went wrong for next time you get called for an interview.
3. You don’t need any career advice. - Recruitment agencies are full of career advice.  They can tell you how to upskill and what areas you need to work on to make yourself more attractive to a prospective employer.  If you do not need any career advice, then a recruitment agency may not be for you.
4. You know the jobs market very well and have good contacts in all the companies you may wish to apply to. - Recruitment consultants livelihood depends on building good connections like this.  If yours are as good then you may be able to do without a recruitment agency.
5. You are not intending to change your job.

The list may be a little flippant, but the reality is that if you use a reputable recruitment agency they can help you find your next job. More than that they can give you valuable advice on what your career options are.  Importantly they will do this without charging you for it.

You do need to pick your recruitment agency well though.  Read through this advice on dealing with recruitment agencies before you start the job seeking process.  That is a suggestion but it probably should be a requirement for anybody who is entering the jobs market.

I just read a press release about a new directory of recruitment agencies.  At first I thought “not another recruitment agency directory” but I had to go and look at it anyway.

What a surprise.  Yes it is just like other lists of agencies in some ways, but it is also different too.

The advice section is great.  So great that I’m going to provide a link to it right here. Recruitment Agency Advice.

Read the advice well if you are currently job seeking or are an employer using a recruitment agency.  The advice for job seekers section is very close to the advice on Jackie Brown Medical, which was probably the first site to show such open and honest insight into the world of recruitment.

Needless to say we signed ourselves up straight away.  I loved the fact that you could search for a recruitment agency by speciality as well as location.

The site has an associated Recruitment News section, some of which may be of interest to readers of this blog.

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