Careers and Jobs

The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical sectors are huge in Ireland and growing. I posted previously about Elan and the sector. I recieved an email enquiring how to get additional information about the sector and how to locate the key companies in the sector. (Its ok I will send your CV and attend your interviews too).

Biotechnology Ireland – This site has good information on the sector including latest news and announcements. The site also has a directory list the Biotech employers in Ireland. So if your are keen to secure work in the Biotech sector this site could prove a valuable resource.

Alternatively there are the online jobboards and recruitment agencies.

I posted previously about how to get the best out of recruitment agencies. I thought it might be useful to create a list of agencies to help those of you new to the Irish job market or for those of you who have not been job hunting for some time.

The list below are general agencies and will cater for most jobs including accountancy, HR, technical, IT, construction, Pharmaceutical, Banking, Hotel, Administration, Sales and Multilingual.

HRM
Eden Recruitment
Premier Group
CPL
Brightwater
Manpower
Hunter Marshal
Qualitas
Ormond
Grafton
Hudson
Sigmar

The lists below are specialist recruiters who specialise in a particular field, function or sector.

IT Recruitment Agencies
Elan IT
Enterprise People
Rescon
Computer Futures

Sales Recruitment Agencies
School of Sales
Sales Placement
Berkley
BMS

Banking & Finance Recruitment Agencies
Accountancy Solutions
Q.E.D
FH Recruitment
Executive Connections
Delta Resource

Administration & HR Recruitment Agencies
La Crème
Office Angels
Maryb
Capital

Hotel & Catering Recruitment Agencies
Noel Recruitment
Caterassist
Maria Logan

Construction Recruitment Agencies
ICDS
Atlanco
Matrix

Pharmaceutical Recruitment Agencies
Life Science
Brunel
Kingsley

There are a number of possible strategies that jobseekers can use to locate potential jobs. I will discuss these in detail in later posts BUT let us look a Job Boards now.

Job boards are big business and there are many focusing on Irish employers and jobseekers. These online Job Boards are straight forward to use. The question I often get is which Job Boards to use. To help you I have outlined some of the bigger online Job boards and some of the niche Job Boards.

General
EmployIreland
RecruitIreland
Monster
LoadzaJobs
Irishjobs
Jobs

Niche
AdminJobs
SalesJobs
ComputerJobs
Hoteljobs

If you need any additional help here just drop a comment.

It’s official – we all knew it but the facts now prove it. It takes Irish workers an hour on average to get to work each day. This is twice as long as it did 5 years ago. In 2003 we took about 29 minutes to get to our job but now it takes 55 minutes. That means that we are traveling for the equivalent of 12 working weeks a year. Even more depressing is the fact that a survey before Christmas indicated that only 6% of Irish workers survey loved their job.

What can you do?

There are two options available. Try to find a resolution with your employer. Many employers appreciate the hardships on staff caused by daily commutes as many suffer with their staff. There are many possibilities to explore such as remote working, flexi-time or a condensed working week. If this is not possible the other option is to find alternative work.