19 May 2022
IIEA Reviews
3.8
59% would recommend to a friend
Tony Brown
100% approve of CEO
59% positive business outlook
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7 reviews
5.0
12 Mar 2020
Recommend
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Business outlook
Pros
It is a great place to learn
Cons
Have to adapt to the system quickly
4.0
14 Oct 2019
A great place to start for graduates
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
Dublin, Dublin
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Research jobs at the IIEA offer great opportunities to work on a range of different policy areas - given the range of issues covered, there's something for everyone. If you have the time, you can work on producing policy briefs and blogs, building practical writing/drafting experience. Through the IIEA's extensive events programmes you get to deal with visiting senior politicians, officials and policy experts. There's also great networking opportunities as you work closely with senior government department officials, Ambassadors to Ireland, senior management in big multinationals and prominent academics.
Cons
While the events programmes are what people might be most familiar with when it comes to the IIEA, there's a great research capacity there that is underutilised. Too much focus can be placed on events and not enough on producing regular content. In such a small organisation, management and hierarchical structures can be blurry. This leads to a lack of clear process and direction at times and oftentimes things are done on an ad-hoc basis. This can also be done in how the organisation treats employees affecting morale as staff can be treated differently on case by case basis. Efforts have been made in recent times to address some of this but issues remain. There can be control issues from longer-serving staff which results in some resistance to change.
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