General Science
Explain Yourself!
We see a LOT of CVs on a daily basis (I even see CVs in my sleep on weekends – OK maybe not!).
Some points that occurred to me recently that are very important:
-NEVER address an email to Sir / Madam or “To Whom it Concerns”. This is lazy. Go onto LinkedIn, find the name of [...]
What’s Hot – May
Wow, June is nearly upon – that was quick!
It’s been a good month in Life Science Towers on various fronts, here’s a run down of the roles were working hard on currently:
Health Quality professionals. We’re working exclusively with this Client to provide them with a number of people who have previous experience in the Healthcare [...]
Keeping your finger on the pulse (while not working)
So you’ve just graduated and are looking for your first job, or recently been made redundant? It’s important to keep that fire burning by staying in touch with current scientific issues. This will come across very well at interview when they ask you something along the lines of: “so what are your interests?” or “tell [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
More CV tips
An interesting CV arrived in last week, something I had not seen before. At the bottom was a whole paragraph of tags, which the candidate was obviously hoping would be picked up by our database as it scanned the CV for key word skills. He CV would then show up in more searches which he then hoped woudl result in his CV being more visible to us and us calling him more often in relation to available opportunities. This is similar to “black-hat” webpage search optimisation which has since been discovered by Google. People would hide a multitude of keywords in the background text on their website, often in the same colour oas the background itself (say white words on a white background which would be picked up the the search bot). Needless to say, this did not look very good on the CV and didn’t strike me as being hugely professional, for someone that had a lot of experience.
Lessons learned from Jack White
Last night I had the pleasure of attending an interview with Jack White, guitarist form the White Stripes in Trinity College. A rock star in every sense of the word, he arrived exactly as one might expect him to, all black clothes, white rockstar boots and top hat. Some (I think!) white make up and [...]
Crisis as University Science Drop-Out Rates hit 40%
Recent reports have indicated that a very high percentage of university students are dropping out of science and technology courses after their first year in college. In DCU, heralded as the cutting-edge technology campus, drop-out rates of 39% have been reported, while in UCD a drop-out rate of 26% was reported and countrywide, the seven universities averaged 20%.
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