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The importance of RSS feeds to today’s job seeker

January 15, 2010   Jamie Savage   No comments

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 large database of candidates who could potentially fill the role. So how do we choose? We ring as many as we can, and those whom we contact or those who call back, are inevitably the ones who get presented as profiles to our Client.

In a market like this, in which there are not many junior roles, there is a high level of competition for the ones that do arise. This is where RSS feeds come in. If someone subscribes to our feed, they will be alerted IMMEDIATELY as soon as we post a new vacancy (which is the initial step in the recruitment process). So if you are a candidate who is recently out of college or with a couple of years experience in a lab – you would be alerted as soon as the role is up. You could then contact us before we get a chance to get to you, by phone as this is the most immediate and effective. This would put you ahead of the queue, and gives you the best chance be out forward and to be itnerviewed. For roles where we are the exclusive provider for, we are not going to submit more than 4 closely matched CVs. As our Client will not have the time or inclination to see more than 4 people. Therefore as soon as those 4 interviews are arranged, we closed off the application process. This could literally happen throughout one working day. If your CV is 100% matched to our Client’s requirements but you were a few hours too late, then you could have potentially missed out on an excellent opportunity.

This market is tough, candidates need to be predatory and utillise all of the tools at hand. So if you’re on the lookout for a role, be it junior or senior (Junior Senior, whatever happened to them?!), the subscribe to the links below now. When something of potential interest does pass our way, give us a call – we’ll can update you on the role in the blink of an eye.

RSS. For information on using RSS feeds – see here

Facebook Fan Page (417 and growing!) – we post off of our recent jobs on our FB and Twitter page

Twitter

Brian – bhc at lifescience dot com

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Organisational overview of the Pharmaceutical Sector – Part A Clinical Affairs

January 08, 2010   Sinead Cullen   No comments

The pharmaceutical sector plays an important role in Ireland and is responsible for a significant majority of Irish exports. The following is breakdown of the functions and organisation of the Clinical Affairs department within a typical pharmaceutical company. The clinical affairs department acts on the whole in tandem, with all departments interrelated and working together.

Clinical Affairs Department

Typically the clinical affairs department is headed up by the Medical Director. They are responsible for the following departments.

Pharmacovigilance – reporting of SAE’s and other pharmacovigilance data of current drugs on the market and also preliminary data for drugs in development.

Clinical Trials – management of ongoing phase I-III clinical trials.

Regulatory Affairs – management of the preparation and submission of regulatory documentation to the relevant government regulatory bodies – IMB, FDA etc

Medical Information – responsible for the dissemination of technical information regarding current products to primary care providers and academia. Responsible for the training of sales force with regards to technical information and also the dissemination of information internally.

Quality Assurance – responsible for the development and management of quality systems within the department – writing up SOP’s and training other stakeholders in their implementation and application.

Key Job Profiles:

Medical Director

Pharmacovigilance / Drug Safety Officer

Medical Information Officer

Medical Advisor

QA Executive

Medical Science Liaison

Regulatory Affairs Officer

Clinical Research Associate

If you would like any further information please contact

Eamonn O’Raghallaigh MSc, LifeScience.ie – 01 6854848

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Job Seeking over Christmas

December 10, 2009   Jamie Savage   No comments

A couple of notes about your Christmas job hunt.

-Don’t send CVs out over the Christmas period. It’s a sure-fire way to make sure your CV gets lost in an inbox. A much better tactic is to use the Christmas vacation as a research break, and find the names and contact people of who you want to approach. LinkedIn LinkedIn LinkedIn! Do not send your CV between 19th Dec and the 3rd January.

-Try to keep in good shape over the Christmas break. It’s tough and will be a challenge, but don’t over-indulge (too much) over Christmas. There’s nothing worse than starting the New Year with too little energy and feeling run down. This will affect all areas of your life.

-A final note – keep things simple. A recent CV arrived in the inbox which contained a mini-interview at the end. Although you have to admire the effort and originality, it doesn’t work. Focus rather on the content on your CV. Tailor it to the specific position, incorporate key words mentioned in the Job Spec. It’s a laboured point but it works.

AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

-Brian (bhc at lifescience dot ie)

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Attention Science graduates (updated)!

November 10, 2009   Jamie Savage   No comments

I was informed by a good friend who works in the Environmental Protection Agency that they are on the lookout for CVs to fill a number of graduate jobs that are on offer currently. A quick search suggests they are amongst the positions listed here (click text search and type in “EPA” – then “Show Vacancies”. EDIT: MUST BE 6 MONTHS UNEMPLOYED TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR APPLICATION

Many graduates wouldn’t necessarily look on the FAS site when searching for jobs, so if you have stumbled uponn this then you may have an advantage.

In the same search I noticed another interesting role with IT Tallaght.

Another point of note, there are 4 FAS jobs listed – DO NOT send your CV to all 4. Pick the 1 (or at most, 2) that suit your skills and send your CV in with a strong cover letter. There is nothing worse than getting 4 identical CVs in for different roles, if you are more suited to different roles the HR person in charge will be aware of this. I’ll post more of CV Do’s and Don’ts later in the week….

Brian (bhc at lifescience dot ie)

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Lessons learned from Jack White

October 19, 2009   Jamie Savage   No comments

jack_whiteLast 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 Dylan-esque pencil moustache topped off the look.

He gave a superb insight into his apprenticeship as an upholsterer in Detroit, lessons learned and how he always believed his calling was in art / music (stitching poetry and putting vinyl discs inside couches, writing receipts in crayon!). Current muses and thoughts on his marriage / family were also interesting. Jack fielding some questions from the audience about finding the “lost” America and comparing Britney Spears to Dylan, Bowie and himself – apparantly in some ways he feels she is being truer to herself than they are!

When asked what advice he would give to up and coming musicians, he tied the interview together nicely with the theme of night – authenticity. New musicians need to love what they’re doing, if they don’t love their work then how can anyone else? I think this is a concept that can be applied different areas in life. He advised to stay away from sites like myspace to promote themselves, instead to focus on creativity and getting out to the fans.

As a company focussed on Web 2.0, of course we will not take his advice literally! However, I think the substance is relevant – love what you do, be authentic, differentiate and people will naturally be attracted to you. Stretching this out somewhat and applying it to canddiates on the job hunt, I would suggest it means getting “out there” more, don’t just send out 10s of CVs out to various recruiters and potential employers, focus on quality. Pick up the phone, get to the right people and project your value and personality upon them.

Note: this postwould like to doff its cap to a couple of other business / ideas blogs: Robin @ Bytesurgery, the guys @ Contrast and to a lesser extent, the 37signals signal v. noise blog, all of which are superb.

-Brian (brian dot c at lifescience dot ie)

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Life Science launches its Web 2.0 Periodic Table

August 31, 2009   Sinead Cullen   No comments

Life Science Recruitment launches its Web 2.0 Periodic Table

Life Science Recruitment is a specialist scientific and healthcare recruitment company based in Dublin and is the first Irish recruitment company to develop a portfolio of industry-specific recruitment websites. Presented in an innovative periodic table format (Life Science Periodic Table), the aim is to make job-seeking in specific vertical markets more relevant, targeted and efficient for candidates.

The company’s market research into recruitment trends in Ireland began in late 2007 and results from a recent online survey conducted on the lifescience.ie website indicated that 67% of respondents said they wanted to see less duplicated jobs online, while 73% of respondents said they wanted to see more niche websites dealing in their specific professional fields. The culmination of this research has been the development of the “strategic online presence” comprising 15 industry-specific websites and a Web 2.0 footprint made up of a number of blogs, combined with a presence on Facebook, twitter and other social media resources.

Each industry-specific website is tailored to the jobseeker; pharmaceutical.ie for jobseekers in the pharmaceutical sector, medicaldevice.ie for the jobseekers in the medical device sector and so on. Each website contains latest jobs from Life Science Recruitment, academic institutes and featured industry partners only, as well as industry sector overviews and career advice targeted to the specific end-user. These websites have an unrivalled presence in the search engines, compared to competitors.

According to Seth Godin, author of numerous best-selling marketing books and internet marketing guru, “Big companies, non-profits and even candidates will discover hyperlocal, hyperspecialized, hyperrelevant… this is where we are going, and it turns out that this time, the media is way ahead of the marketers.” Life Science Recruitment’s strategic online presence aims to encapsulate these three maxims as it moves forward with the changing face of the recruitment industry in Ireland.

The management team at Life Science Recruitment brings over 20 years of recruitment experience to the table, combined with an academic grounding in life science and technology.

Contact Information:
For further information please contact:
Eamonn O’Raghallaigh, Life Science Recruitment Ltd, 4th Floor, Newmarket House, Newmarket, Dublin 8. Tel: 01 6854545 / Fax: 01 443 0524

Websites:lifescience.ie/pharmaceutical.ie/medicaldevice.ie/alliedhealth.ie/clinicalresearch.ie/biopharmaceutical.ie/diagnostics.ie/scientificjobs.ie/salesandmarketing.ie/qualityassurance.ie/regulatoryaffairs.ie/qualitycontrol.ie/microbiology.ie/chemistryjobs.ie

Social Media:ScienceBlog.ie/Life Science Company Blog/Sales and Marketing Blog/Life Science FaceBook Page/Life Science Twitter Page

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The Leaving Cert results don’t lie

August 12, 2009   Jamie Savage   No comments

Data out summising the Lc results supports the drop out rate we just blogged on. Some of the most stand out figures:

-only 16% do higher level maths (many Science / Tech courses require this for entry)

-4,600 do higher level physics / 6,ooo take higher level Chemistry (out of 57,000 students)

-7,000 apply to do Science courses (vs. 17,000 doing Arts). This actuyally represents a 21% increase in Science applications ove rlast year, but when average points down for courses across the board, the standard of student seems to be waning (70 less A1’s than 2008). It will be interesting to see the trend in drop out figures over the next number of years….

Brian – brian dot c at lifescience dot ie

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Crisis as University Science Drop-Out Rates hit 40%

August 11, 2009   Sinead Cullen   No comments

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%.

SO what has brought on this rise in the drop-out rates in science…?

One camp says the increase in due to the “dumbing-down” of the leaving cert exam combined with significant drop in points for science subjects especially. The points for science in UCD in 2008 were 300, compared to 440 the year I started my science degree there… Quite a drop.

Reading in the Irish Times, Tom Boland, chief executive of the Higher Education Authority, recently voiced fears of declining standards, with what he called “spoon-fed” second-level students struggling to cope at third level.

The other side of the argument is that maybe student life is too easy, too much of a party and that those who perform badly in first year, due to the excitement of genuine party-time, do not have the funds to go back and repeat the year.

The reality is that there is a massive over supply of science graduates on the market – I think the govt have forgot that “quality” is better than quantity… Raise the points for university to what they were 10 years ago and make the leaving cert harder, then we will get a real marker of how smart of economy is.

-       Eamonn

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