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Tips for Job Seekers in a Contracting Environment

Megan Driscoll, President, PharmaLogics Recruiting, www.pharmalogicsrecruiting.com

In these uncertain times, it is very easy to get worried about your future.
Maybe you have lost your job already, or you are facing an upcoming layoff at your company. Even if you are still happily employed, the economic downturn is enough to make anyone a little nervous. However, it is not a
time to panic.

Thankfully, Bio-Pharma is usually the last industry to be
affected by a recession and the first to recover from it. Our firm is actually quite busy with new positions coming into our office every day, so don’t lose hope. For candidates who are looking, it is important to remember a few specific things:
 

 
 
 

 
  • Make sure you have a great resumé to present. Share it with peers for feedback to ensure it is as good as it can be.
  • Research companies that have products similar to the ones you have worked on in the past, and approach them with your qualifications.
  • Re-invent yourself. Be looking for positions that would be slightly outside your current scope of experience and think of creative ways to present your background to them.
  • Be patient, your job search is going to take longer. Three months would be the average last year, but it could take up to six months this year.
  • Use your network. Be assertive in contacting and presenting your qualifications to current and former colleagues. No one can sell you like you, so don’t hesitate to pick up the phone.
  • Contact recruiters you trust to let them know of your background and interests for the future. Often, recruiters know about jobs before they even open up.
  • Don’t submit yourself to a position on line unless you absolutely have to. Use your network and the respected recruiters you know to get in first.
    In this economic environment, the databases are overflowing with resumes and it is hard for companies to filter through.
 
If you have additional questions about your job search, please e-mail Megan at: mdriscoll@pharmalogicsrecruiting.com
 
 
Strem Chemicals Supports Chemistry Education through Newburyport Education Business Coalition

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NESACS Members Receive Awards at ACS Awards Ceremony
Four NESACS members were recognized by the ACS at the Awards Ceremony held on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, in conjunction with the 237th National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

JoAnne Stubbe - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nakanishi Prize sponsored by the Nakanishi Prize Endowment.  For her incisive contributions leading to new fundamental knowledge regarding the involvement of radical intermediates in the mechanisms of action of the ubiquitous ribonucleotide reductases
Daniel G. Nocera - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by the Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc.  For creative contributions in inorganic chemistry that have significantly transformed our understanding of renewable energy and solar energy conversion at the molecular level.
Cynthia M. Friend - Harvard University

George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry sponsored by the George A. Olah Award Endowment.  For fundamental understanding of complex transformations of hydrocarbons on metal surfaces demonstrating the importance of metastable, transient species in surface reactivity
John A. Porco, Jr. - Boston University
Mohammad Movassaghi - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund.  These awards will be presented during the Arthur C. Cope Annual Symposium in conjunction with the 238th National Meeting in Washington, DC, in August 2009.
In Addition:
Bernd Giese - University of Basel, Switzerland

was presented with the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry sponsored by the ACS Northeastern Section by Lawrence Scott (Alternate NESACS Councilor; Boston College).  For his seminal contributions to the mechanism and stereochemistry of organic and biological radical reactions
 
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