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Careers Centre
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Welcome to the Pharmajob's Careers Centre.
The advice given in the Careers Centre is intended to help give yourself the
best possible chance of clinching that all important job. You will find useful
advice on Career Progression, CV's and Interviews.
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Assessment Centres
The Assessment Centre is the latest popular recruitment tool. Assessment centres are not a place (although they often do involve going to a centre) but a type of assessment process where several candidates are present at the same time. The idea behind this process is that employers can gain more information on candidates' abilities with respect to key job demands; in contrast to interviews, which can be seen more as a sales pitch that is not backed up by any concrete evidence of the applicant's ability to perform.
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CVs From Hell!
Here are some amusing classic CV blunders, which have all been used in real-life situations. Unsurprisingly the following applicants are still looking for work.
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Getting A New Job!
Almost everybody, at some stage in their career, will have to go through a recruitment process in order to get a job. This may be an application to a new company, a promotion within your own firm or even a redefined role after a merger or an acquisition. The recruitment process in the pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly more complex over the last ten years. For some help in jumping through the hoops, Pf magazine brings you a new series about Career Management sponsored by Futures Resourcing. Pf aims to offer all job applicants useful information and guidelines on how to go about getting that new job.
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Interviews (Preparation Instils Confidence)
Preparation instils confidence
The mere mention of the word Interview sends many people into a blind panic. The Interview is a major obstacle for many job applicants. Although you may have the qualifications, experience and a proven track record, you may lose out to a candidate who interviews better.
In order to interview well you need to be well prepared and confident. A candidate who can answer questions in a way which is acceptable (but not necessarily right) to the interviewer, someone who knows something about their potential employers business and the post they hope to fill.
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Ordeal by Audience (Presenting)
How to make presenting at interview work for you
More and more of us are having to face that rite of passage known as the presentation as part of the process we must go through if we want to make a career move. It is now common practice for candidates to be required to make a presentation as part of the selection process. This procedure gives an employer the opportunity to assess your communication skills, your ability to summarise and pass on information, and your ability to think on your feet. In this Career Management Article, sponsored by Futures Resourcing, we look at how you can do this to best effect.
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Personality Profiler
What energises you? How do you look at things and how do you like to make decisions?
New Oceans Personality Profiling brings the two worlds of Myers-Briggs and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) together to provide a unique personality questionning process that elicits the unconscious perceptual filters or preferences that determine how we think and behave in different work contexts. It deals with the whole structure of human experience. In effect what makes people tick - eliciting the beliefs, values, internal thinking strategies and behaviour that lead to effective action.
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Psychometric Tests
Psychometric tests: fitting square pegs into square holes and round pegs into round holes
Many employers are now using psychometric tests in recruitment in the pharmaceutical sector. In this, the final article in the Career Management series sponsored by Futures Resourcing, we look at the two main types of psychometric tests used – personality questionnaires and aptitude tests.
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Shooting Stars - How To Shine At Interview
How To Shine At Interview
Interviews are still an important part of the process of getting a new job. In this Career Management article sponsored by Futures Resourcing we look at some tips and hints on how you can perform your best at interview.
Most candidates view the prospect of a job interview with some trepidation largely because the interview process is seen as an interrogation with all the negative images that evokes. In reality an interview is merely a discussion between you and the recruiters. A position is vacant, and you are coming together to see whether you are the best person to fill it. Seeing the interview from this perspective immediately relieves some of the tension inherent in the situation and leaves you to get on with the next big stress-maker – preparation.
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Take Control of Your Career
Destination Unknown? Taking Control of Your Career By Catherine Midgley
Imagine going on holiday without planning it - packing your bags and setting off for the airport with no idea of whether or not you'll get a flight, never mind where to. Yet so many of us do exactly this with our careers. In fact, we probably spend longer planning our holidays than our career!
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