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Best Practices in Recruiting

Authors: Gabrielle Bauer & Tara Smylie Big-picture ideas to help recruiters—and those who use them—play their A game INTRODUCTION to BEST PRACTICES IN RECRUITING In an era of rapid growth for biotech and life science companies, STEM-savvy talent experts play an...

Job Hopping as a Career Path: Is It Right for You?

Author:  Tara Smylie Let's discuss job hopping.  As a recent grad or job-seeker, you may have been spending some time charting out potential career paths. If that’s the case, you may have wondered: how long should you plan to stay at each of your positions? On the one...

Questions to Ask Life Science Job Candidates

Author:  Tara Smylie “Tell me about yourself.” …Not today! Nowadays, more specific questions for life science candidates are in style – not to mention, far more useful. Instead of ultra-vague cliches, consider carefully thought-out inquiries to really get to know your...

Hiring with Corporate Culture in Mind

Author:  Tara Smylie Corporate culture hasn’t always been at the forefront of hiring processes. Nowadays, though, it can play a huge role. That’s right: corporate culture is all the rage in today’s recruiting world – and for good reason. Employees are more than their...

The Pros and Cons of Working for a Start-Up

Author:  Tara Smylie Have you ever considered working for a start-up?  It’s almost a buzzword nowadays – that’s how much the term “start-up” is tossed around. But what really is a start-up, and why is there so much chatter about working for one? In truth, working for...

Recruiter Spotlight: Sahana Nazeer

Sahana Nazeer is one of Sci.Bio’s wonderful Scientific Recruiting Partners, as well as a recent graduate from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Here, she talks about her growth as a recruiter, how her medical training connects to her work as a recruiter,...

Useful Online Courses to Beef Up your Resume

Author:  Tara Smylie Online courses - how important are they once you're employed?  Once you’ve finished with college, you’re done learning and can now sail by on the skills you have, right? Wrong! More than ever, learning is a lifelong process, and new skills can...

ChatGPT: What Does It Mean For Life Science Employers?

Author:  Tara Smylie Ah, ChatGPT. These days, you can hardly walk ten feet without hearing about it. How will it help our species? Whose jobs will it eradicate? Who owns the rights to what it produces? As of right now, no one has a concrete answer to any of those...

As a life scientist, do you need communication skills?

Author:  Tara Smylie Communication skills?  The short answer: yes! You might think of a “science job” as a lab-coat-wearing, number-crunching, sitting-and-calculating kind of affair. But science jobs can call for a full gamut of abilities – including “softer”, more...

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