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Would you fire this person?

I had an interesting online conversation with a friend who is based in the States last night.The chat came round to a lab supervisor who was upset that a person they had recently hired had “embelllished” and added details onto their CV. Essentially, they had lied in order to get themselves ahead of the pack. [...]

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Career Advice from Industry Experts

I’ve tweeted and posted this on Facebook already (as well as blogged about it before), but I think it’s worthy of a lot more than that.
All Life Science jobseekers should check out this video: HERE.
It’s 4 Irish industry leaders: Owen Treacy (GM, Novo Nordisk Ireland), David Lloyd (Dean of Research, TCD), Joe Keenan (Director Sales [...]

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Being Creative in a Tough Market

It’s a tough market for jobs. No one prizes there. If you are as unfortunate as to be out of work at the present time, differentiation is key. This can’t be stressed enough. As well as the usual advice you’ll be given (knock on as many doors as possible, follow up all contact, keep yourself busy and in good shape), there are other things you can be doing.

It can’t be stressed how much potential lies in the internet. IT professionals can get outsourced work, people can open ecommerce shops in minutes (eBay) and everyone and the uncle seems to be an “expert” at something or other (“social media guru anyone??!). However, if you are willing to dig deep and work harder than the next person, opportunities will come your way:

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Naming your scientific Start-Up company (for guaranteed success)

I was once told by my chemistry lecturer that the key to naming new drugs was for it to be easy enough for the public to say and understand, yet complex enough for the doctors to not feel left out. This is of course referring to their commercial names, not scientific names.
I feel the same [...]

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The importance of RSS feeds to today’s job seeker

Recently, we have been working in conjunction with Clients on some more junior roles.
The majority of our roles are quite senior and we may not have more than 3-4 very suitable candidates for each, possibly even only 1 depending on the specificity of the requirements. However, for these recent Lab Tech roles, we have a [...]