Posted: July 1, 2015
Today we were delighted to welcome crew members from “Meangadh Fíbín” who are currently filming a new series called “Is Eolaí Mé” for TG4 which is scheduled to be aired in January 2016. The series, “Is Eolaí Mé” (I’m a scientist) , looks at the various aspects of science, technology and the maritime sector. To date the crew have filmed in a recycling centre, on the Celtic Voyager, the National Maritime College of Ireland and have a busy schedule lined up for the coming weeks before going to the studio back in Galway in September to edit.
Peadar, the show’s presenter, was introduced to the life of a mariner this morning at the NMCI as he donned gear and experienced our environmental pool (Check out the environmental pool facilities below). Peadar was filmed in stormy conditions in one of our life rafts.
Once the crew arrived on site, they began filming outside the college where Peadar spoke about the college facilities, the ever changing weather in Ireland and how many professions are reliant on the weather e.g. Mariners . Once this scene had been shot the crew moved up to the pool area where Peadar was getting ready to experience the “Stormy” weather conditions. The film crew took several shots and even used a Go Pro Camera & Drone to film some scenes. Two of our instructors, Elizabeth & Cillian, were with the film crew this morning alongside our Senior SNO Instructor Terry O’Brien. Safety is paramount during any training exercise and even during filming the safety of delegates is paramount. Check out some of the behind the scenes pictures below which were taken this morning.
Coiméad súil amach ar an laethanach seo le haghaidh tuilleadh eolas faoin sraith nua a bheadh ag teacht amach i mí Éanáir 2016. We had to put in some Gaeilge there as the show will be as Gaeilge . Keep an eye out on our page here for further information on the new tv series which is due to be aired in January 2016.
Our “Sea Survival Pool” is 20m x 8m indoor pool where the temperature is maintained at 21oC. It has a depth of 5m at its deepest end which extends for 7.5m and a depth of 2.5m at the shallow end. The environmental conditions which can be created include :
- Wave generator with variable setting
- Wind generated by large fans
- Rain sprinkler system
- Thunder and lightning using strobe lights and audio effects
- Day and night capability
Equipment and facilities at the environmental pool include :
- A dive tank (8m deep, 4m diameter) for training divers in underwater burning and welding
- Helicopter Underwater Escape Trainer (HUET) for ditched helicopter evacuation training
- Marine evacuation system (MES) including landing platform
- A large variety of inflatable life rafts and associated equipment
- Jumping platforms at 1, 2, 4 and 6 metre heights
- A comprehensive selection of dry suits, wetsuits, life jackets and PFD’s
- Pool side safety equipment
- Numerous survival equipment display boards
- Life raft repair room
- Divers workshop
- Changing rooms with showers, lockers and WC’s
- Disabled changing facilities
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Posted: June 29, 2015
Once again SNO (SEFtec NMCI Offshore) are set to break records by training over 240 delegates from the State of Maine Maritime Academy over a 4 day period this week. With all hands on deck it’s set to be a busy week here at the National Maritime College of Ireland. The delegates who are currently on a trip to Ireland decided to use the world class facilities at the NMCI to complete training.
The delegates are currently completing exercises in the pool such as a PST , completing exercises in our Damage Repair Unit and completing training on our jetty. It is an honour for the NMCI to be chosen as the training providers and we would like to officially welcome all delegates. We will be keeping our twitter account updated with pictures of the delegates completing different elements of training but as a taster we have some for you below.
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Posted: June 24, 2015
Where do we even begin?
The awards took place in Dublin at the Ballsbridge Hotel last Thursday and were hosted by Colm O’Regan of ‘Irish Mammies’ fame. A charismatic host who had over 240 guests laughing in their seats from the beginning. The night kicked off with a champagne reception at the Ballsbridge Hotel which was a great way to begin networking with the guests at the event. The bell rang and the doors opened into the ball room which took your breathe away. The room was beautifully decorated, seating arrangements even had guest names with company logos on them. Event Strategies thought of everything for this night. Once we were seated the Starter, West Cork Black Pudding, arrived followed by an option of either Beef or Hake. Dessert was then presented, a trio of chocolate, followed by tea & coffee.
The awards ceremony kicked off then at 10pm on the dot. With two large screens showcasing the award winners receiving their trophies nobody missed the moments which we had all been waiting for. All pictures from the night of the awards can be found on our Twitter Page here.
Some pictures from the event can be seen below.
Seán Mowlds (SEFtec) & Joy Gillen (GTSS)
NMCI Gents at the Maritime Industry Awards
James O’Byrne, Conor Mowlds & Roderick Cooke (NMCI)
Annette Coughlan (NMCI) , Giuesseppe from D’amico & Helena Day (NMCI)
Ball Room at Ballsbridge Hotel
Background to the event
The inaugural Maritime Industry Awards is something which we had been working towards for some time now. A lot of people may not be aware of the work which went on behind the scenes prior to the event but there were several key industry players involved in getting these awards off the ground. We would like to take this opportunity to thank those people involved in the awards, namely; Conor Mowlds – Head of the National Maritime College of Ireland, Liam Lacy -Director of the IMDO, Capt. Kevin Allen -Harbour Master, Belfast Harbour , Geoffrey O’Sullivan – (Retired) formerly Senior Science Policy Advisor, Marine Institute (Ireland) , Conchur O’Bradaigh – Director, Professor of Energy Engineering, Marine Renewable Energy Ireland, Lorcan O’Cinnéide – Irish Fish Processors, Dr. David Jackson – Inspector of Fisheries/Section Manager, Marine Institute, Capt. Dave Hopkins – Marine Director, Irish Mainport Holdings, Prof. Patrick Shannon – Irish Offshore Operators’ Association, Minister Simon Coveney, Event Strategies and the Team at the National Maritime College of Ireland.
Overall Category Winners at the Maritime Industry Awards
In total there were 15 prestigious trophies which were presented to individuals and organisations within Ireland’s maritime industry.
The 2015 Awards Winners are listed below.
Overall Maritime Excellence Award: Resolute Marine Energy
Lifetime Achievement Award: Eoin Sweeney
Ship Operator of the Year: Atlantic Towage & Marine
Excellence in Maritime Environmental Protection Award: Commissioners of Irish Lights
Excellence in Maritime Education & Training Award: Marine Data Network – SEA-Tech Evolution
Excellence in Marine Renewable Energy Award: Resolute Marine Energy
Excellence in Vessel Repair & Maintenance Award: Mooney Boats
Special Recognition Award: Helen Noble
Excellence in Marine Tourism & Leisure Award: Port of Cork Company
Excellence in Aquaculture Award: Marine Harvest Ireland
Offshore Ireland Award: Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Shipyard of the Year: Bere Island Boat Yard
Innovation in Maritime Safety Award: SafeTrx – DeCare Systems Ireland
Innovation in Marine Technology Award: SeaFi Horizon – Port of Cork Company and SEA-Tech Evolution
Commercial Dive and Marine Contractors of the Year: Inland and Coastal Marina Systems
Category Winners at the Maritime Industry Awards 2015
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone who was shortlisted for an award and the overall category winners. It was great to see companies being recognised for their efforts in supporting the growing maritime sector in Ireland. For pictures of each category winner receiving their award click here.
A huge thank you goes to our Minister Simon Coveney for his motivating and heartfelt speech at the awards about the potential of Ireland’s Maritime Sector. It was an honour for the NMCI, as patrons to the awards, to have the Minister both attend and speak at the inaugural maritime awards.
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister
for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation with Rory McGuire, Flagship’s European Partner (2013)
Who are Flagship Management?
Flagship Maritime Consultants Ltd, trading as Flagship Management, provides specialist recruitment, staffing and executive search services to the maritime, energy and offshore industries. From its base in Kinvara, Co. Galway, the company provides services covering markets in Ireland, the EU, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. The company works across many sectors of the industry including the oil and energy majors, leading ship owners, leading shipyards, classification societies, maritime regulatory agencies and maritime finance and insurance services. Flagship Ireland is one of the principal suppliers of senior management for major shipbuilding projects in China and South Korea.
Flagship has established itself overcoming many competitive challenges. It was a new entrant into a highly competitive and established market with numerous competitors spread across Europe. The Flagship model had already proven itself in the US, Canada and South America, and was now to target two of the largest maritime marketplaces: Europe and the Asia Pacific. In order to claim market share we are focusing on our competitive advantages that are difficult for our competitors to replicate:
- We focus on employing staff with extensive experience in the maritime industry adding skills and knowledge that our competitors cannot offer. Our staff are ex-‐naval architects, master mariners, chief engineers and bunker traders amongst others.
- In addition to their expertise, our staff offers a more mature profile in an industry dominated by a very young and very transient workforce.
- Everything is in the ‘Cloud’. Our cloud-‐based infrastructure allows our personnel to work remotely in real-‐time just as if they were still in the office. Our office phone numbers follow us wherever we go, allowing an “always-‐ on” service for our clients.
- Our service offering: in addition to the above, our services follow a six-‐point process that provides a structural approach for both ourselves and our clients. By following this process we have an industry leading retention rate of professionals placed with our clients.
Our knowledge, our network, working for our clients and candidates
We are professional recruiters with real maritime know-‐how. Our experience matters. We have worked in the industry and are vested in it and consequently our clients benefit from an intuitive knowledge of the positions they are trying to fill. Our candidates can expect dedicated support throughout the recruitment process from submission to the first day on the new job and beyond. Check out our website: www.flagshipmgt.com
Want further information on Flagship? Open this PDF : Flagship Management Profile
A CV IS NOT YOUR LIFE STORY: it’s the exciting advert for your life story coming soon to an interview room near you.
Your Maritime CV: 3 simple ways to make your CV a LOT better!
Every week we’re reading hundreds of CV’s and, for any given job advertised, you can bet company HR departments are also reviewing hundreds of CV’s and they have a lot less time to review them than our team. Some career advisors will tell you ‘you need to make your CV stand out!’ You might also feel that fancy formatting and plenty of colour with ‘cool’ infographics is the way to go. In our opinion the following is much more productive:
1. Standard formatting: Personal details, Employment (most recent to oldest), Education (Always include from-to dates, type of degree/dip/cert and University/Educational Institute), Skills (IT, personnel, HSEQ training, short courses, languages, etc) and Interests.
If the HR manager has 100 CV’s to review, 6 annual performance management interviews, a union dispute, and any amount of payroll, pension or new employee inductions to carry out that day then they are not going to appreciate having to work through your infographics, diagrams and colourful pictures to find out if you’re actually qualified to do the job, particularly if you’re number 99 and they’ve already found 5 guys they can call to interview. It’s a lot easier for them to find your information if it presented in a similar format to most of the CV’s they’ll see.
2. It’s not what you’ve done, it’s how well you have done it! It’s ok to include brief information on the roles and responsibilities of each position you’ve had in the past, but it is extremely important to highlight your achievements in each role. What additional value were you to each employer? How did you improve processes or procedures? Did you make your employer more efficient? Did you save costs or earn extra revenue for your company? Did you have excellent annual performance appraisals? Did you give to your employer more than just the standard requirements of the job.
If you’re a bunker trader or marine business developer you must highlight your performance against target. If you’re a HSEQ manager you must highlight processes, incident-free records, etc. If you’re a tech super, highlight solutions that saved your employer time/money in downtime maybe in drydock. At the very least you should be able to say that your annual performance reviews were excellent.
3. Keep it short. Too many guys were speak to believe that they cannot possibly fit their experience into anything less than 8 pages! We have argued this point with guys with CV’s that are over 20 pages long! A CV IS NOT YOUR LIFE STORY: it’s the exciting advert for your life story coming soon to an interview room near you. It should be 2 pages, max 3. Most employers are only going to be interested in what you’ve been doing over the past 5 years, provide detail on your last 2 to 3 positions and list out everything else.
Good luck in your job search!
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