Our professional and personal lives were transformed by Leo Varadkar’s announcement on March 13th. Working in recruitment, I constantly have discussions with clients and candidates on traits such as flexibility, being adaptable or a self-starter, dealing with difficult situations; but I never would have thought t...

In November 2019, I returned to work after taking a 3-year break to care for my young family. While I loved being with the children, motherhood is hard work and I missed the social interaction you get from being part of a team. I also missed working in marketing. I missed the intellectual stimulation. Suffering the sa...

Fastnet Talent Consultant, Deirdre Duboy, recently featured in The Evening Echo's Women On Wednesday feature. Read the inspirational interview here:​ Talent Consultant, Quality and Laboratory - Fastnet - The Talent Group, Deirdre Duboy tells us about her role, in our My Career column Name: Deirdre Duboy...

The Irish Life Sciences sector has shown extremely strong growth in recent years with major investments from several large multinational companies such as MSD, BioMarin, WuXi Biologics, ILC Dover, DePuy and Pfizer, and the sector recording €39 billion in annual exports of pharma, bio and medical device products.&n...

Revenue introduced PAYE modernisation on 1st January 2019 which introduced “real time” payroll reporting for PAYE employees.  As we approach the end of 2019 we would like to remind PAYE contractors of what this change means for them. More information on PAYE modernisation can be found here. The main c...

Over the past number of weeks, the Fastnet team has been spreading some Christmas cheer and giving a little something to those less fortunate than ourselves.  Team Hope works with communities to transform children’s lives by tackling poverty and inequality through its Christmas Shoebox Appeal, sustainable d...

As we continue our 20th anniversary celebrations at Fastnet – The Talent Group®, we are today celebrating our colleague Ailish Groarke who has played an important role in the business for 20 years. When presenting Ailish with her service award, Managing Partner Niamh O’Driscoll commented &quo...

Fastnet - The Talent Group®  is celebrating 20 years of Talent and Recruitment consultancy in the Life Sciences sector this week.  Founded in 1999, Directors Niamh and Pat O’Driscoll had a very clear strategy based on three pillars: to be expert in the life sciences sector; to provide an excepti...

Fastnet is a dynamic and innovative Talent and Recruitment Consultancy. We are the market leader in the Life Sciences sector, and steered by our core values, our teams collaborate with many leading multinational and indigenous firms delivering tailored talent solutions. As the Talent Partner of Choice for the Life Sci...