{"id":493,"date":"2023-09-30T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/innopharma_education_wp\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:17:28","slug":"ireland-life-sciences-talent-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/blog\/ireland-life-sciences-talent-gap","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Life Sciences talent gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the demand for highly-skilled workers in pharma increases, flexible and future-focused approaches to qualifications and continuous professional development will help to fill Ireland\u2019s talent gap. 

The demand for talent can be met with flexible approaches to learning and continuous professional development (CPD). Lifelong learning is a fact of any professional career, and a growing and rapidly changing pharma sector need to look both within and outside of the industry to develop and up-skill people.

\u201cTo keep Ireland\u2019s pharma workforce at the leading edge, qualifications that feature advanced manufacturing technology and data analytics topics are critical.\u201d<\/em>

Pharmaceutical companies must work with industry and academic partners to develop education programmes that can be delivered full-time and part-time with online remote learning support. This flexibility will help those already in the industry to get to the next career level, but will also help people from outside the pharma industry transition into roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qualifications must be relevant and up-to-date<\/strong>

To ensure that education and training are meeting the needs of the pharma industry, it\u2019s critical to work with key industry stakeholders to develop programmes that prepare students for these high-tech jobs.\u00a0Industry\u00a0lecturers and\u00a0insights from business can build academic programmes that align academic learning and practical applications.\u00a0

Training in\u00a0advanced\u00a0manufacturing\u00a0technologies and data\u00a0science\u00a0to\u00a0future-proof\u00a0our\u00a0workforce and industry\u00a0<\/strong>

Advanced manufacturing\u00a0technologies and data science are\u00a0critical\u00a0areas of focus\u00a0for\u00a0the world\u2019s top pharma companies. To keep Ireland\u2019s pharma workforce at the leading edge, courses and qualifications that\u00a0feature technology and data analytics topics, as well as subjects such as Lean Six Sigma, are even more\u00a0important\u00a0now. Managers and leaders in the industry\u00a0are\u00a0starting to\u00a0explore\u00a0how they can prepare their people to lead into the digital future of high-tech\u00a0pharma manufacturing.\u00a0

How Innopharma Education has helped up-skill Ireland\u2019s pharma industry<\/strong>

Government funding\u00a0and support\u00a0have been instrumental in\u00a0helping\u00a0people\u00a0and industry get\u00a0the right skills.

Since 2010, Innopharma Education is incredibly proud to\u00a0have\u00a0helped\u00a0thousands of\u00a0people\u00a0gain pharma qualifications\u00a0through initiatives like Springboard+. Over\u00a070% of these\u00a0people\u00a0are\u00a0now\u00a0employed in all regions of Ireland\u2019s pharma industry.\u00a0Without this\u00a0commitment from the\u00a0government, our industry talent gap would be even larger.\u00a0

In addition to the Springboard+ initiative, approaches\u00a0like the recently announced Human Capital Initiative will help even further in addressing this skills gap, providing\u00a0Ireland with a competitive advantage in attracting pharma investment.\u00a0Innopharma\u00a0Education looks forward to working with industry, government and our academic partners Technological University Dublin (Tallaght Campus) and Griffith College, to map out the next phase of professional learning and skills development that will keep Ireland\u2019s pharmaceutical industry competitive and prepared for what\u2019s next.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the demand for highly-skilled workers in pharma increases, flexible and future-focused approaches to qualifications and continuous professional development will help to fill Ireland\u2019s talent gap.  The demand for talent can be met with flexible approaches to learning and continuous professional development (CPD). Lifelong learning is a fact of any professional career, and a growing and rapidly changing pharma sector need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[30,28],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-degree","tag-job-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innopharmaeducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}