Networking can be one of the most effective ways of landing your next job within the scientific industry. However, networking events and conferences can often be intimidating for jobseekers. Therefore, here are 6 helpful hints to help you out:
1. Show your passion for the scientific industry and company
To help you come across as passionate and knowledgeable as possible, it is a good idea to do your research about the industry and the companies working within it.
2. Show an interest in the person you are talking to
Stop focusing on yourself and concentrate on potential contacts within the scientific industry. Company representatives will always talk to you about themselves and the scientific company they work for. By asking questions and showing an interest in them, you will make a good impression and it is more likely you will be remembered.
3. Prepare an elevator speech
Jobseekers are often stumped as to what to say to company representatives exhibiting at networking events, and how to say it. To help you structure your introduction, it is a good idea to write a short speech that includes the following information:
Who you are
What you do
What type of job in science you are looking for
Practice your elevator speech in front of the mirror and in front of your friends and family before you go to the networking event.
4. Don’t ask for a job
Instead of directly asking for a job, it is better simply ask for advice. This way, people are more likely to be generous with their time.
5. Be organized
During the event, keep a record of all the people you have spoken to, their contact details and any job hunting advice or scientific industry insights they have given you.
6. Follow up
After you have met a contact within the scientific industry, make sure you follow up with an email or a telephone call, you could even add them as a contact on Linkedin. In your message, reiterate to the contact how much they have helped you and remember to thank them for any specific advice they have given you.
In partnership with the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, scientists at the University of Manchester and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will be working together to investigate how the biological clock controls inflammation in lung diseases, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
It is hoped that the £500,000 study, which will be funded by GSK, will lead to the development of new drugs that will target how the internal body clock regulates the severity of inflammation. The team at the University of Manchester will be headed up by Professors Andrew Loudon, David Ray and Kath Else. This team will work closely with colleagues in the Discovery Biology group at GSK.
Speaking of the collaboration, Professor Loudon or the faculty of life sciences, stated:
“Many inflammatory diseases are highly rhythmic in presentation and often worse at night. We believe there is also a strong rhythmic control. It has long been speculated that asthma and other inflammatory conditions have an underlying clock mechanism controlling the severity of the disease. These clocks are all over the body, including in cells responsible for the immune response in the lung. In addition the way we metabolise drugs is highly rhythmic. Our aim is to gain a sufficient understanding of this process so we can target key parts with specific new drugs.
“We are working with GSK not only to develop new drugs to alleviate symptoms but also reveal optimal timing of therapy, known as chronotherapy. This is a new and exciting area of research. It is being taken very seriously in France, for example, where researchers have for some time been studying the importance of timing of chemotherapy in cancer. This study is just one at the beginning of an exciting new phase in circadian rhythm research.”
Inflammatory diseases of the lung are a major cause of mortality world-wide. In the case of COPD, the progression of this inflammatory disease is irreversible once commenced. In the UK 27,478 people died as a result of COPD in 2004. Other diseases with an inflammatory aspect include asthma, which is a predisposition to chronic inflammation of the lungs in which the airways are reversibly narrowed.
Our client, a major biotechnology company is currently looking for a Senior Process Technologist to join their Manufacturing department based in the North East of England.
As Senior Process Technologist your role will involve:
The introduction of new products
Prioritising plant preparation and start up activities
The allocation of tasks to members of the production team
Accountability for the introduction of new and existing products
Acting as a focal point for process performance issues
This Senior Process Technologist role also involves managing a small team of document technicians and manufacturing scientists ensuring all documents are compliant with company standards and laboratory scale process development and scale up activities during early stages of technical transfer.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an exceptional company which offers innovative solutions at the cutting edge of research.
To be considered for this Senior Process Technologist role you must have a proven background in a similar role and be of graduate calibre.
How to Apply
For more information or to apply for this Senior Process Technologist role, please contact Heather Deagle at hdeagle@ckscience.co.uk. Please use reference number DH19448 in all correspondence.
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
CK Science, the largest independent scientific and engineering recruitment consultancy in the UK, is currently looking for a Recruitment Consultant to join their team based in Durham on a permanent basis.
You will be joining a small, friendly and very experienced team of recruiters who specialise in providing permanent and temporary recruitment services to companies employing scientists and technologists in the North East of England and Scotland.
This Recruitment Consultant role is a sales-orientated position with an account management bias and will involve extensive people contact, both face to face and by telephone. Your role will involve liaising with scientists and other technical disciplines so qualifications or a background in a relevant technical discipline would be an advantage.
The ideal candidate will have experience in sales or recruitment, along with excellent communication skills combined with self-confidence, a professional approach and highly developed organisational and administrative skills. We are looking for an outgoing individual with lots of personality, who is hungry for success and will enjoy the satisfaction of providing a quality, professional scientific recruitment service to both clients and candidates.
For further information or a confidential chat, please call Lorna Crombie on 0191 384 8905 or email lcrombie@ckscience.co.uk.
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
Our client, a leading food manufacturing company, is currently seeking to recruit a Process Development Technologist to work with them at their site in Leicester on a temporary basis for a period of 3 months.
This Process Development Technologist role will involve being responsible for coordinating the manufacture of products from kitchen concept into factory within the commercial criteria signed off by the customer. Key departments this role will be involved with will include Operations, Engineering, Technical, Procurement, Planning, Commercial and NPD therefore communication and teamwork are key for this role.
Key responsibilities of this Process Development Technologist role will include:
Attend product handover meetings to understand and challenge, where necessary, product attributes.
Provide details of necessary quality standards for new products (including product life) ready for customer technologist sign-off.
Completion of written and photographic standards for customer and operational areas
Prepare scale-up recipes.
Provide required packaging details to enable generation of keylines.
Manage the ordering of new raw materials and packaging onto site.
Effectively carry out and co-ordinate each stage of required factory trial programmes.
Run pre-production trials with the customer in attendance.
Send all required samples throughout the development process to the customer, as necessary.
The ideal candidate for this Process Development Technologist role will be educated to degree/HND level, or equivalent, in a food related discipline and have detailed knowledge of food manufacturing processes and experience in a high care chilled environment. Previous experience with M&S as a customer, an understanding of the underlying fundamentals of food processing specifically in the chilled food category as well as dough/pastry/batter knowledge would also be ideal but not essential.
If you would like to hear more about this job, please contact Russell Oakley on 0114 2839956 or email roakley@ckscience.co.uk. If you do not hear back from us within 5 working days of your application for this role, it means that on this occasion you have not been shortlisted for the next stage of the recruitment campaign. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential. Please quote reference SH19333 in all correspondence.
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
Our client is a global Pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge. They are looking for a Senior QA Officer to act as a liaison between the company plants and contractors for bulk and components supplied by the plants to the contractors.
As a Senior QA Officer, your key role will be to modify, audit and ensure contractor quality standards and protocol for processing material into finished product. You will also be involved in conducting contractor quality assurance audits and coordinating the development of documentation for the contractor manual.
Suitable candidates for this Senior QA Officer role should have a broad knowledge of cGMP for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry and have an understanding of worldwide regulatory affairs. It is also essential that you have previous experience of working within Quality Assurance and knowledge of Quality Control techniques and testing methodologies is beneficial. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential.
If you would like more information about this Senior QA Officer role, please contact Lucy Campell on 01438 723 500 or email lcampbell@ckscience.co.uk. Please quote reference ST19212 in all correspondence.
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
Assay Scientist Required for Leading Technology Consultancy based in Cambridgeshire, UK
Our client, an industry leading Technology Consultancy, are currently looking for an Assay Scientist to join their state-of-the-art facilities based in Cambridgeshire. Joining their Technology Development Team, you will be involved in a range of development projects surrounding technology for the Medical Device, Healthcare and Consumer industries.
Working as an Assay Scientist, you will be responsible for Project Management of multi-disciplinary teams surrounding the development of new technology, liaising on a consultancy basis with clients and maintaining a ‘hands on’ focus within the fields of assay development and formulation. You will also be involved in the mentoring and development of junior consultants.
This is an exciting time to join an innovative organisation who specialise in the development of bespoke technology for clients within the Medical, Healthcare and Consumer markets. In return they offer a very attractive salary and benefits package.
To be considered for this Assay Scientist role, you will have a degree in chemistry or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) as well as proven practical project management experience and demonstrated knowledge of assay development gained within a technology and/or medical device environment. Experience within a consultancy based function or client facing role would be highly advantageous but not essential.
If you would like to hear more about this Assay Scientist job, please contact Andrew Bolton on 01438 723 500 or email abolton@ckscience.co.uk.
If you are successful after the first round of screening, we will contact you within five working days. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential. Please quote reference ST19294 in all correspondence.
About CK Science
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
Looking for a new science job? Subscribing to RSS feeds can help compliment your traditional job hunting methods by regularly providing you with relevant science job vacancy listings.
What is it?
RSS or ‘Really Simple Syndication’, is a simple way to distribute information to a wide number of people.
How can it help me in my job search?
When job hunting it is likely that you will regularly visit industry specific job boards. The content of these websites changes all the time. Having to continually go back to each website to check for new job listings can be tedious and time consuming.
Subscribing to the websites RSS feed pretty much solves this problem as it allows you to keep informed of the latest content of the sites you are most interested in. This saves you time as you don’t have to visit each site individually. This is obviously a great job hunting tool.
How do I subscribe to an RSS feeds?
In order to grab RSS feeds from all of your favourite websites and job boards you will need to download a web-based feed reader such as Google Reader.
So, you have downloaded your RSS Feeder via Google Reader. Now to subscribe to an RSS feed, say from CK Clinical, simply follow these instructions:
Our client, a pharmaceutical service company based in Scotland, specialise in conducting research, development and manufacturing on a contract basis. This innovative company are currently looking for a Director of Quality to join their steriles division which manufactures investigational medicinal products.
As Quality Director you will have responsibility for the development of the site quality strategy and compliance with the site Quality Management System. You will liaise with the MHRA to maintain IMP MA, develop and manage the site validation master plan and manage the Quality Department, comprising QA, QC, analytical and microbiology.
The ideal candidate for this Director of Quality position will be fully qualified and accredited as a QP eligible for permanent provision in a steriles IMP MA, with considerable experience in a senior QA role within the pharmaceutical industry. Prior experience in sterile products manufacture is also essential.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Qualified Person to develop their career with a dynamic pharmaceutical service company who are committed to making a difference.
If you would like to hear more about this role, please contact Lorna Crombie on 01913848905 or email lcrombie@ckscience.co.uk, quoting reference DH19237 in all correspondence.
CK Science is the largest independent scientific recruitment company in the UK. Our team of specialist recruiters are here to help you achieve your career ambitions within the scientific industry. We actively offer you careers advice, help with writing your CV, assistance with interview preparation and up-to-date information about the industry. We pride ourselves on providing an honest, straight-forward and trustworthy service to both our clients and candidates.
As reported in the Telegraph, Shell, a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies, are now planning to cut another 1,000 oil jobs on top of the 5,000 job losses already announced.
Tuesday saw the announcement that the oil company’s full year results indicating their performance was worse than their rival BP’s, sparking plans to embark on $1bn programme of further costs cuts on top of the $2bn identified last year. The company is also planning to sell around 15pc of its refineries which convert crude oil into petroleum products.
Refineries set to be closed include:
Shell’s last UK refinery and producer of 15pc of the country’s pertrol – Stanlow, Cheshire.
Montreal refineries.
German refineries.
Operations under review include:
New Zealand
Costa Rica
Panama
Sweden
Speaking of the full-year results, Peter Voser, Chief Executive of the oil company, stated, “Our downstream business [refining and retail] is in the toughest refining environment we’ve seen in decades. Margins were squeezed by increasing oil prices on the one hand and weak demand from our customers on the other.”
Established in 1991, CK Science is the leading independent scientific and engineering recruitment agency. We provide all round recruitment consultancy services to the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, engineering, food, oil and waste industries. CK Science has three offices staffed with fully qualified specialist scientific recruiters, so you are assured an efficient, friendly and cost effective service.
Networking can be one of the most effective ways of landing your next job within the scientific industry. However, networking events and conferences can often be intimidating for jobseekers. Therefore, here are 6 helpful hints to help you out:
