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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...
How to Build Relationships with Recruiters
Author: Claire Jarvis If you’re new to the biotech job market you may hold the following common misconceptions about recruiters (put your hand up if you’ve believed either of these things): recruiters are indiscriminate in who they reach out to, and they only care...
“It’s Not You; It’s Me” – How To Avoid Candidate Ghosting
Author: Claire Jarvis How can you avoid candidate ghosting? First we need to define ghosting. The term “ghosting” - when one person drops all contact without warning and no longer replies to your messages - is something you may have heard about in the context of...
Job Perks that Matter Most to Candidates
Author: Tara Smylie Everyone likes to be rewarded for their efforts – especially when those rewards bring measurable value to their lives. And once rewarded, most people are extra motivated to keep putting out great work. This is especially true when it comes to the...