News & Blog
Below you’ll find the latest Match news, advice, candidate & client resources.
How to master a video interview
More than often we think video/telephone interviews are easier and tend to pay less attention to the preparation actually required to ace the interview. Let’s be honest, you probably do prefer video/telephone interviews as you don’t have a panel of interviewers...
A European GP living in Dublin and answering all our questions!
After our first interview with a Pediatric Registrar from South Africa living and working in Ireland, it’s time for us to find out more about how it works, the IMC process and the day to day for an European doctor moving to Ireland. Dr Angela Marchal is originally...
An international doctor’s experience moving to Ireland!
We interviewed Dr Simangaliso Sibanda, Pediatric Registrar at Letterkenny University Hospital to get her view on moving to Ireland. Dr Sibanda is a Zimbabwean experienced Paediatric Registrar that decided to pack up and move to Ireland from South Africa with her...
All your questions answered!
Have you ever imagined how it would be to have a life in Ireland? What Ireland has to offer, as a country for you and your family personal and career wise? The MatchMedics team are constantly thinking about new ways of helping international doctors with the big...
6 Reasons Why You Should Use A Medical Recruiter
Searching for a Medical position, can be both time-consuming and stressful, especially when living abroad. Using a recruitment consultant can alleviate a lot of that pressure, provided you find someone who understands your own unique background, needs, family...
Tips for a perfect CV!
As we head towards the next rotation a lot of us will think about updating our CV but are we doing it right? As a recruiter I can tell you that it would only take me a few seconds to decide if I would be interested in shortlisting you or not (studies show its around 6...
COVID 19: Newsletter Series #5
In our 5th edition of the Match Medics COVID 19: Newsletter Series, we join the British Medical Journal podcast in one of their latest episodes looking at the public health response to COVID 19. BMJ host is joined by a panel of public health experts from the US and...
COVID 19: Newsletter Series #4
In the latest edition of our COVID 19: Newsletter Series, we are going fully Irish! To kick things off we have consulted the expertise of some of our promising Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees who give us a birds eye view of what treating patients in this new world...
South African Medical Recruitment Events 2020
This years' MatchMedics South African Roadshow has been postponed due to Covid 19. Worry not! We will be hosting a webinar in May instead. Further details to follow shortly. Stay tuned. MatchMedics are coming back to South Africa for our biggest ever set of Medical...
COVID 19: Newsletter Series #3
In the latest edition of our COVID 19: Newsletter Series, we listen to the most recent release by Science Weekly where host Sarah Boseley, joined by Infectious Diseases and Professor in Vaccinology, Helen McShane, discusses one of many possible paths researchers are...
Primary Care & Covid19 – The Next Steps
As we start to think about the next stages of the fight against Covid19 we are expecting that we will see a form of “normal service” return to the Primary Care and the General Practice area over the next few weeks and months. We’ve heard that it is widely the case...
COVID 19: Newsletter Series #2
This week we have jumped into the Guardian’s latest release of Science Weekly to get an insight into how vulnerable asthma patients are during this pandemic. Regular Science Weekly host Nicola Davis is joined by Dr Andrew Whittamore – Clinical Lead at Asthma UK....