“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, [...]

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. [...]

What’s Hot – May

In by the skin of our teeth for May! April was missed but purely because we’re so busy. The other guys in the office have trouble with the Blog button on their internet…. This month there seems to be a huge focus on the Commercial side of things according to recent jobs. Sales Agent – previous experience [...]

Irish Life Science Directory 2011

Attached is the Irish Life Science Directory for 2011 – a superb document for anyone who is seeking to do some research on companies and trying to make their first move into Industry. The full directory is here (Click into post to see working link): Lifescience Directory – Brian (brian dot c at lifescience.ie)

Starting in Sales

This is a short post focussing on the potential of scientific grads to start their careers in sales.

Currently we have a number of junior sales roles across Ireland:

Account Exec – Limerick

Jnr Product Specialist – Dublin to Galway and north territory

Sales Exec – Dublin. Some international travel involved.