Ciara Farrell
Head of Research
Ciara joined MERC Partners from a leading executive search firm in Canada having completed a variety of C-suite and Director level searches across a broad range of industries including financial services, education, natural resources / energy and not-for-profit. Prior to this, Ciara worked with a boutique occupational psychology consultancy in the areas of assessment and selection with a particular focus on delivering training and solutions utilising psychometric profiles for selection and development.
Ciara leads the research team at MERC Partners and works closely with our consultants to deliver excellent research insights and ensuring the successful completion of search assignments. She has a keen interest in the area of assessment, ensuring objective measures are used to identify the best candidates for each search assignment and she holds a number of Test User (Psychometric) Certificates from the British Psychological Society.
A graduate from Queens University Belfast where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Ciara also holds a Masters in Work & Organisational Psychology from the University of Limerick where she was awarded the Kemmy Business School Outstanding Scholar Award in 2013 for coming top of her cohort.
