EU Pay Transparency Directive: What it means for your organisation and how to effectively prepare for it.
Written by Oliver Coakley, Citris, in partnership with HRMEU Member States have until 7 June 2026 to transpose the Pay Transparency Directive into their national laws. The main objective of the Di...
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Site Automation Project Team
Industry Biologics Manufacturing Location: Ireland The Challenge As the client built a new manufacturing facility, they required a specialist automation team to lead the design and integration ...
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Senior Engineering Project Manager
Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Location: Ireland The Challenge With a series of business-critical projects approved, the client needed immediate on-site expertise to manage their delivery....
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Divisional Vice President of Quality
Industry: Devices Location: Ireland The Challenge Our client sought to hire a Divisional Vice President of Quality to oversee quality across nearly 15 manufacturing plants worldwide. The challen...
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Senior Director, Test Method Systems & Molding
Industry: Devices & Biologics, Med Devices Location: USA The Challenge Our client had struggled to find the right talent for the Senior Director position in the USA through their own recruitment ...
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Strategic Market Intelligence – Leading FMCG Organisation
Location: UK & Ireland The Challenge Our client was considering several senior-level hires but required clarity on talent availability across the UK and Irish markets. This strategic intelligence...
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Strategic Market Intelligence – Global Pharmaceutical
Location: Ireland The Challenge Our client required confidential, real-time market intelligence to inform strategic hiring and workforce planning within the Irish pharmaceutical sector. The aim ...
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Beyond Compliance: The Strategic Value of Board Assessment in Financial Services
Our colleagues at IIC Partners have released their latest insights on Beyond Compliance: The Strategic Value of Board Assessment in Financial Services:Amid rapid change in the financial services s...
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Supply Chain Consultant
Industry: Food Manufacturing Location: Ireland The Challenge With their supply chain leader approaching retirement, the client wanted to bring in a contractor during the transition period. This ...
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Leadership Mapping Following European Expansion
Location: Southern European Country Industry: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) The Challenge Following the acquisition of a major regional business, our client was integrating it into their bro...
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EU Head of Quality Control
Location: Ireland The Challenge Our client, a large multinational, required an interim solution for a specialist-level position overseeing the externally tested product within the EU. The role was...
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EMEA Sales Director
Industry: Manufacturing Location: EMEA, based in Germany The Challenge This was a pivotal hire following a number of strategic acquisitions as the business scaled across the EMEA region. The org...
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Global Technical Operations Managers (Multiple Roles)
Industry: Biopharmaceutical Location: Ireland/Europe The Challenge As the client transitioned product manufacturing from CMOs to its internal network, they required multiple technical operations...
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HR Transformation Director
Location: Ireland The Challenge The client was undergoing a significant HR transformation as part of an organisational restructure. They required a senior HR leader with experience in large-scale...
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Chief Transformation Officer
Industry: Utilities & Energy Location: Ireland The Challenge Our client was investing heavily in automation across multiple business units and needed a transformation leader to drive systems, p...
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Senior Director: Finance & Operations
Industry: Pharmaceutical Germany The Challenge We were retained to appoint the senior leadership team for a multi-billion Euro greenfield site in Germany. A key appointment was the Senior Directo...
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Head of Corporate Development
Industry: Property Development Location: Ireland The Challenge This succession hire came at a crucial juncture as the organisation was shaping its five-year growth strategy. Success depended on ...
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Research Review: Leadership and Team Performance Strategies for Executives
Our colleagues at IIC Partners have released their latest insights on Leadership and Team Performance Strategies for Executives:Effective leadership is critical to realising talent potential and a...
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Executive Search Market Outlook 2025
Executive Search Market Outlook 2025Our colleagues at IIC Partners have released their Executive Search Market Outlook 2025, offering a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and trends shaping ...
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Opposites Repel
Opposites RepelTwo distinctly opposing leadership ideologies now exist, one could damage your organisation. Here’s how to avoid it. Thirty years ago, the late Colin Powell, former US Secretary of...
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Executive Mobility Report 2024
Executive Mobility Report 2024Our colleagues at IIC Partners have released their Executive Mobility Report 2024, which explores the key factors influencing executive career decisions today. Based...
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From Boardroom to C-suite: Redefining Leadership in Consumer Markets
From Boardroom to C-Suite: Redefining Leadership in Consumer Markets.With the advent of new C-suite roles and the growing importance of digital transformation and sustainability, the structure o...
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Recruiting Leaders in Sustainability
Recruiting Leaders in SustainabilityWith the advent of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU now has mandatory reporting standards in this area. Large and listed EU-bas...
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The Intersection of AI and DEIB
The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB).Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the context of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion a...
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Healthcare Supply Chain Management - 2023 Global Trends Report
Healthcare Supply Chain Management - 2023 Global Trends ReportAs the global healthcare industry continues to grow and evolve, the supply chain function remains in focus to capitalise on new oppo...
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The Changing Skill Set of the C-Suite
Priorities have shifted around the skill set required of today’s leaders. Technical knowledge and commercial capability must be accompanied by softer skills. These include compassion, effective co...
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Are Women Rising?
Second generation bias - the unseen barrier to women leaders.In Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, a HBR article by Herminia Ibarra of London Business School, Robin J. Ely from Harvard Business Sc...
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2023 Global Talent Acquisition Trends
2023 Global Talent Acquisition Trends.Social, political, economic and technological forces are having a unique impact on the worldwide executive search market. While job losses in tech are gaining...
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence | Will AI replace our jobs or simply change the jobs we do?Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live and work. As technology advances and becomes more p...
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Collaboration for Contractors
Collaboration for Contractors | 5 ways to integrate contractors to working in collaborative cultures, and why it is essential for success.Even firms with highly collaborative cultures can overloo...
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Central Europe Executive Search Market Outlook
Central Europe Executive Search Market OutlookIIC Partner's Executive Director, Christine Hayward, recently led the compilation of a report into trends in executive acquisition in Central Europe....
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Connected Leadership - Four essential competencies for future leaders
Connected Leadership - Four essential competencies for future leadersLeaders are facing a complex mixture of new challenges. Hiring, engaging and retaining remote employees, addressing the opp...
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5 Global HR Trends That Are Transforming Business
5 Global HR Trends That Are Transforming BusinessIIC Partners is one of the World’s top 10 executive search organisations. Operating through 40 offices and 460 consultants, the organisation’s par...
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Lifting the Lid on Gender Pay Gap Reporting in Ireland.
More than just Money. Lifting the Lid on Gender Pay Gap Reporting in Ireland. In a working paper on gender pay gap, the OECD[1] indicates that while 60% of wage discrepancy is due to glass ceilin...
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Managing Your Leadership Pipeline - How well positioned is your firm?
Managing Your Leadership Pipeline. Succession Planning is essential for business continuity and all your key roles. In HBO’s hit series Succession, Brian Cox’s performance as Logan Roy, a chara...
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Why you lose the very best Candidate?
The firms, great talent choose to join are not always the biggest, those that pay the most, nor organisations with the widest range of benefits.While ordinary performers may be attracted by these...
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Do you know your ‘XYZs’?
Are you Gen Z, Generation Y, Generation X, or the rarer breed of baby boomer? With retirement ages drifting and young graduates streaming into the jobs market, a truly diverse workplace will in...
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4 Smart Ways To Maximize Your Value From Professional Contractors
The knowledge base HRM Search Partners has seen how high performing professional contractors bring excellent value and flexibility. Specific skills and experience when you need it, reduced costs ...
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Retained Search Recruitment
In recent times there has been much talk and reference made to the ‘Great Resignation’ in Ireland. Various information and media channels gave the impression that there is a large-scale mobility ...
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The Flip Side of Disruptive Change for Companies
One thing is certain. The pandemic in more ways than one was a catalyst for the future of work – in tandem with honing digital skills and an improved infrastructure, we saw a change in corporate ...
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Clara Test 2
Lorem Ipsumis simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of ty...
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What you really need to know NOW to hire great talent- TESt
What you really need to know NOW to hire great talentThe current and future drivers and deterrents of leadership and professional candidates when choosing a new employer.DOWNLOAD THE FULL SURVEY R...
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Three Essential Competencies Every Leader Must Now Demonstrate
If Rob Kaiser ever picks a stock or backs a horse, go all in. Kaiser is President of Kaiser Leadership Solutions and an author on Leadership. In an article published in HBR just prior to the 2020 p...
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Preparing an Executive CV
The old idea that your CV acted as a personal sales brochure is outdated. Your resume should be an accurate reflection of your career path and learning to date. It should highlight what you have ac...
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Four Steps to Planning a Great Career
As if it were needed, 2020 proved beyond doubt that even the most robust and well researched plans fall aside when the unexpected occurs. But it does not need to be a tragic global pandemic to make...
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Preparing for a High Performance Interview
No doubt you have interviewed many candidates for positions in your function over the years. Perhaps even some undertaken remotely using online video communications. However, being the subject of t...
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Financial Guide To Contracting
Creating Higher Personal Value Contracting is the ultimate labour market illustration of the law of supply and demand. Highly experienced professional talent resources applied to a short-term missi...
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6 Considerations When Using Contractors
6 Considerations When Engaging With High Value ContractorsWhat is a contractor? Contractors can create immediate value for organisations by bringing specialised skills and flexibility, and by bei...
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Dynamic
dynamic (dai’nÆmik) adj. 1. characterised by constant change, activity, or progress. 2. positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas.Talent Acquisition is changing for Good.The extraordina...
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Reignite Your Team
It is difficult to think of an aspect of our existence that the Covid pandemic has not impacted in some manner. Our working lives have certainly been impacted, for some that meant loss of jobs or p...
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Post-Covid Leadership
We face in to a challenging future. As the economy reopens, leaders are addressing complex and demanding issues. Their toughest, is how to bring align employees safely while rebuilding operations a...
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Why HR is a new Frontline
The years that followed the banking crisis saw HR leaders and functions in most organisations grow in strategic influence. While that period wreaked economic havoc on businesses, the social impact ...
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From Now To Next
As firms slowly remove the dust sheets and move beyond this extraordinary and destructive pandemic period, two types of futures emerge for firms and their employees. The first is organisations who ...
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Certainty in Uncertain Times
We are experiencing and growing accustomed to new ways of working. We no longer have traditional “workplaces”. We work from home, work under restricted conditions or sadly for many, not working at ...
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Using Contractors to address Business Critical challenges in a crisis
If we have learned anything from the last economic crisis, it’s that the use of contractors is the most consistent talent acquisition initiative deployed by firms. During periods of growth, contrac...
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Vital Signs: Business Critical Hiring
3 essential steps to getting Business Critical hires correct. For many organisations, current hiring means focussing on business-critical roles (BCR). Uncertainty can put expansionary recruitment o...
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Business Critical Hiring
Focus on essential needs only and stay ahead of a looming talent war. Acquiring human capital is always a strategic challenge. Even firms on hiring lockdowns or those with full headcount have key r...
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Four Essential Actions To Lead Your Team Effectively Through A Crisis
When you are first promoted, it’s exciting and daunting. Leading others or leading bigger teams, if you are stepping up a leadership level, is a privilege. When business is good or service demand h...
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Five Lessons For New Leaders On How To Face A Crisis.
A week after I set up HRM in 1992, An Post went on strike. The banks went on strike. Within a year, two of the largest technology employers, Digital Equipment Corporation and Prime Computer, closed...
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Only Hire Leaders Who Are Soft
The four essential soft skills of leadership competence. Sir John Harvey-Jones, the larger than life former Chairman at ICI who was arguably the first pin-stripe celebrity, was horrified to discove...
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Say It To My Face
Five steps to high performance through effective feedback events. The value in providing feedback to employees and team members remains one of the most contested topics in HR practice. Opinions are...
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4 Competencies of Great Procurement Leaders
A substantial change in how consumers acquire goods and services means procurement is a central strategy for many firms. Even for companies whose strategies lie elsewhere, procurement has shifted f...
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3 Most Dangerous People In Staffing
While winning and retaining customers is regarded as top priority for most companies, many describe recruitment as their most difficult challenge. The ability to attract and retain talent into key ...
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Improve Agility, Reduce Costs
Drive maximum value from your contractor hires.An entirely new generation of professionals are choosing to work in contract and interim roles at much greater levels than ever before. Drawn by the f...
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Four Ways To Reach The Discretionary Effort Of Your Employees
The ability to reach an employee’s discretionary effort is a primary objective of any employee engagement strategy. "Discretionary" effort, is the contribution an employee can make, above and beyon...
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Interview Hacks: 5 C's Employers Seek In You
The goal for you as a candidate when attending interview for a new position is not in fact to be appointed into the role, but rather to become the preferred choice of the hiring organisation. This ...
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Four Steps To Fostering Future Leadership
While new leaders from external talent pools can bring new purpose and direction, sourcing leadership from within is a valuable exercise but succession planning is not easy. Effective programmes ar...
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Work Is Mental
Work is mental so why do firms ignore an obvious competitive advantage?It is the last great taboo. People now share their intimate experiences online with total strangers, we talk to each other abo...
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I Want To Tell You A Story
Leaders are addressing change on more fronts now than ever. The ability to bring others with you is subject to how well you communicate to stakeholders. Not communicating effectively is as damaging...
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Interview Questions To Prepare
As with all presentations, the key to confidence and success at interview is preparation. The questions below are not necessarily going to be asked in these formats, but they represent what an in...
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