The Art of the Job Search for Life Scientists
I frequently tell persons who attend my career development seminars that looking for a job ought to be a fulltime job in itself. Unfortunately, while this may be accurate, it generally is not feasible...
View ArticleStrategies to Help Unemployed Friends and Colleagues
It’s a New Year but national unemployment is still hovering around 9.4 per cent. And, the unemployed will continue to face unusually harsh economic conditions when looking for new jobs. Recent surveys...
View ArticlePharma Begins Using Social Media to Recruit New Talent
Over the past few years, life sciences companies have shed over 200,000 jobs. Unfortunately, downsizing at some of these companies may not be over yet. Nevertheless, companies are always looking to...
View ArticleBioCrowd and Quertle, a New Biomedical Literature Search Engine, Ink a Deal
BioCrowd (www.biocrowd.com) and Quertle (www.quertle.info) announced today that BioCrowd has enhanced its site by embedding Quertle’s semantic biomedical search engine. BioCrowd is an online networking...
View ArticleLife Scientists: Tweet Your Way To a New Job or Career
There is no question that Twitter is the new social media tool of the moment. And, it should come as no surprise that scientists and other bioprofessionals have been slow to jump on the Twitter...
View ArticleImprove Your Job Prospects By Using LinkedIn
Last week, financial analysts and social media enthusiast were all a twitter (sorry I couldn’t resist) about LinkedIn’s multibillion dollar IPO. There is little doubt that LinkedIn has emerged as the...
View ArticleJooble: A New Job Search Engine
New job search engines come and go. That said, I was recently contacted by the folks who run Jooble, a job search engine that operates in over 42 countries. While I haven’t used it myself, this is what...
View ArticleOptimizing LinkedIn As A Job Search Tool
While LinkedIn is not considered by many to be a “true” social networking site (some consider it to be little more than a place to post an electronic resume), it is increasingly becoming the place to...
View ArticleQuertle, a Life Sciences Semantic Search Engine, Wins a National Library of...
In April 2011, The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, invited people to show off their apps. NLM challenged people to create innovative software applications...
View ArticleOptimizing a LinkedIn Profile to Land a Job
Social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and niche career development communities like BioCrowd are being used to identify job candidates by hiring managers, employers and professional...
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