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...

Given the uncertainty posed by the spread of COVID-19, I want to let you know what we are doing at Fastnet to protect our people and to ensure we to continue to deliver the highest level of service to you. Fastnet is well placed to be fully operational during this crisis. Our Dublin and Cork offices have closed tempor...

Fastnet – The Talent Group® is proud to shine the light on inspiring female engineers.  We recently caught up with Tatiana Ryan, a project manager with a leading biopharma company, who shares with us why she became an engineer, who inspired her and why she believes engineering is a great career.  ...

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...

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...

The changing nature of work means that a career move is more feasible now than for previous generations. People are increasingly working in new ways; be it in different roles, more dynamic working environments, changing locations or flexible working hours.  While in the past skills and professions were learned for...