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9 Cover Letter Secrets That Can Get You Hired!
9 Cover Letter Secrets That Can Get You Hired! By Skip Freeman, "Headhunter" Hiring Secrets

If you have been in the job hunt any time at all you already know that, if you go through "normal" channels today during your job hunt, e.g., online postings, applications sent directly to Human Resources, etc., chances are, your application will end up in some "black hole" and your efforts will largely be in vain. There is a reason for that, of course. What worked just a few years ago in finding a new job no longer works at all! All the "rules" have changed!

As I point out in ""Headhunter' Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! (as well as in numerous other places), first and foremost, you must understand that hiring is a game, and like every game, it has its own unique set of rules. More...

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A new, three-day, hands-on, laboratory training for bioscience professionals
March 26-28, 2012

The University of Maryland, together with industry experts, is offering a new three-day workshop on cell culture technology.

Geared toward bioscience industry professionals, this workshop combines eight lectures and eight lab exercises focusing on the theory and practical applications of cell culture technology. The lectures will cover principles, practices and case studies leading directly into laboratory exercises performed at the Biopharmaceutical Advancement Facility. The lab exercises will cover a broad range of topics: from inoculation of cultures, to aseptic sampling to the preparation, inoculation, and harvest of a bioreactor. The lectures and lab exercises will cover applications of both anchorage dependent and suspension adapted cell lines.

This workshop is designed for industry professionals, including bench scientists, QA/QC, manufacturing, business development, and sales personnel seeking to advance their knowledge and experience in cell culture.

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Elsevier
Product Manager, Text-Mining & Bioinformatics Product
Take the primary responsibility for a text mining software product, own the business case and product vision. Work with clients, beta testers and company scientists to come up with the concept design for the new software product modules, features, usability improvements, workflows. Prepare and justify the feature lists for the new releases, analyze competitive products and prepare comparative feature matrixes etc.

Genetown (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

StratAcuity
Director of Biology
Need a scientist with demonstrated expertise in protein biologics and with testing for intracellular target modulation. This position requires a Ph.D. in biology or a related discipline with a minimum of five years industry experience leading an early development project team as well as designing and executing screening in vitro and cell-based assays. Experience with designing mid-throughput assays preferred. The ideal candidate will have experience communicating results to management and managing laboratory staff.

Biotech Bay (Menlo Park, California)

Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc.
Research Associate/Assistant - Medicinal Chemistry
The successful candidate will be involved in various peptide drug discovery projects and perform peptide synthesis and purification, document methods and create data presentations. Characterize compounds using analytical instrumentation such as HPLC, LCMS and maintenance of the analytical instruments. Present scientific results at team meetings. Maintain laboratory notebooks. Write experimental protocols and prepare internal reports.

Biotech Beach (San Diego, California)

BioNano Genomics
Senior Scientist
Incumbent will work as a team member in the nanofluidic cartridge group, responsible for the design, prototyping, characterization, assembly, and QC of consumable nanofluidic cartridges. This team is responsible for the development and commercialization of a fluidic nanochannel device which enables rapid, high-throughput single-molecule fluorescent analysis of DNA for a variety of genomic applications.

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Will take a leading position in downstream and formulation process development to propose, assess develop and validate new downstream production and formulation methods for vaccines with a specific emphasis on production animal vaccines. Definition of scalable processes, identification of critical parameters, transfer of processes to manufacturing, interface with formulation developments and evaluation of new technologies, evaluation and maintenance of representative scale equipment are essential to the position.

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Job seekers can spend a day with HR representatives and Hiring Managers from top biotech, pharma, medical device and diagnostics companies in the tri-state area.

Candidates with a 4-year degree in the life sciences and a minimum of 2-years of industry related experience are invited to attend. (Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a four-year college degree. PhD and Postdoc candidates welcome.)

Exhibiting companies are recruiting for positions in areas such as: QA/QC, clinical research, engineering, manufacturing, biostatistics, clinical data management, chemistry, regulatory affairs, and research.

Job seekers may register here.

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