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Top 10 Hottest Topics in Science Research in 2012

Eamonn O’Raghallaigh is Head of Technical Operations and co-founder of Life Science Recruitment (www.lifescience.ie), a specialist scientific recruitment consultancy based in Dublin. Trained as a neuroscientist and pharmacologist, and a self-confessed science nerd, Eamonn is a keen follower of the latest trends in science research. He now gives us a flavour of what’s hot in science research at the moment.

“You call that hagglin’?” – on salaries and negotiation

For anyone who has seen the movie “Life of Brian,” the haggle scene has to be one of the funniest: Life of Brian – Haggle At the end of the recruitment process, there is the inevitable offer. Do companies ‘lowball’ (ie offer less to see what they can get away with) candidates in a tough [...]

LinkedIn Groups and work with Life Science Recruitment

Firstly, we’d like to wish all readers, clients and candidates a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Here’s hoping that 2012 brings a lot of good news for our little green isle. As huge fans and heavy users of LinkedIn, we utilise it’s various features a lot. One of these is groups. We have, in fact, [...]

Thoughts on advertising salaries

This is a slightly expanded version of the Sunday Times article (9th Oct) that we featured in. On a side note, ca. 12% of the jobs we advertise contain detailed information on the salary range on offer. “The need for good staff has never being more important and companies are going to greater lengths to [...]

QP or “Qualified Person” courses in Ireland

**Jan 30th, 2012 update – thank you to the course coordinator for UCC, Linda McGuire, for the update on this post** As we are seeing an upturn in the requirement for excellent Quality staff, we thought it’d be interesting to collate the course that can lead to the QP or “Qualifed Person” status in Ireland. [...]

Europass CVs – don’t go there!

A brief word on Europass CVs, as we receive these formats from many EU candidates, mostly from PL / IT / ES it seems. For the Irish market, however, it may be useful to point out that these CVs don’t serve their purpose well. They are too rigid, aren’t attractive and don’t serve any real [...]


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