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Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland
Strategic Recruitment Partner Supporting Talent, Innovation and Organisational Transformation
Enterprise Ireland is the Irish Government organisation responsible for supporting Irish businesses to start, grow, innovate, and compete internationally. As one of Ireland's leading economic development agencies, Enterprise Ireland requires highly skilled professionals across innovation, technology, legal, governance, risk, procurement, and commercialisation functions.
Conscia has partnered with Enterprise Ireland across multiple recruitment initiatives, supporting both specialist hiring campaigns and broader organisational talent projects. Through this partnership, we have delivered recruitment services, competency framework development, recruitment process redesign, talent attraction strategies, and specialist search campaigns, helping Enterprise Ireland attract and retain high-calibre talent in a competitive market.
The Challenge
Enterprise Ireland recruits for a wide range of specialist and strategic positions, many of which require a unique combination of technical expertise, commercial awareness, stakeholder management capability, and public sector values.
Particularly challenging were recruitment campaigns within the Research and Innovation Division, where candidates required deep scientific knowledge alongside commercialisation and technology transfer expertise. These roles demanded access to niche talent pools across academia, research institutions, innovation centres, and industry.
In parallel, Enterprise Ireland sought to modernise and strengthen its recruitment processes, ensuring greater consistency, transparency, and alignment with organisational competencies and strategic objectives.
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Our Solution
Conscia worked closely with Enterprise Ireland's HR and leadership teams to deliver both recruitment campaigns and strategic talent initiatives.
Our recruitment support included:
• Workforce planning and campaign design
• Development of competency-based recruitment documentation
• Targeted advertising and employer branding campaigns
• Direct sourcing and executive search
• Talent mapping across Ireland, the UK, and European markets
• Candidate attraction through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, university partnerships, and specialist databases
• Shortlisting, interview management, candidate assessment, and offer management
• GDPR-compliant recruitment administration and reporting
• Candidate and stakeholder communication throughout the recruitment lifecycle
Alongside recruitment delivery, Conscia partnered with Enterprise Ireland to review and redesign its end-to-end recruitment process and contributed to the development and rollout of the Enterprise Ireland Competency Framework, supporting greater consistency in hiring decisions and talent assessment across the organisation.
Recruitment Impact
Conscia worked closely with Enterprise Ireland's HR and leadership teams to deliver both recruitment campaigns and strategic talent initiatives.
Our recruitment support included:
• Workforce planning and campaign design
• Development of competency-based recruitment documentation
• Targeted advertising and employer branding campaigns
• Direct sourcing and executive search
• Talent mapping across Ireland, the UK, and European markets
• Candidate attraction through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, university partnerships, and specialist databases
• Shortlisting, interview management, candidate assessment, and offer management
• GDPR-compliant recruitment administration and reporting
• Candidate and stakeholder communication throughout the recruitment lifecycle
Alongside recruitment delivery, Conscia partnered with Enterprise Ireland to review and redesign its end-to-end recruitment process and contributed to the development and rollout of the Enterprise Ireland Competency Framework, supporting greater consistency in hiring decisions and talent assessment across the organisation.
The Outcome
Conscia's partnership with Enterprise Ireland extends beyond recruitment delivery. Through a combination of specialist talent sourcing, employer branding, competency-based recruitment, and organisational consulting, we have helped strengthen Enterprise Ireland's ability to attract the expertise required to support innovation, research commercialisation, enterprise growth, and economic development.
Our success in recruiting highly specialised scientific, technical, legal, governance, and commercialisation professionals demonstrates our ability to deliver complex recruitment projects while supporting broader organisational talent objectives and long-term workforce capability.
Why Partner With Us
At Conscia Talent, we’re redefining recruitment—cutting through the noise to deliver results where others fall short. We work alongside you every step of the way, with a straightforward, no-nonsense approach built on trust, transparency, and commitment.
With a 98% fill rate at a fraction of the cost, our results speak for themselves. Partner with us to experience a smarter, more effective way to hire.
