Thursday, January 28, 2010 Biotechnology & Bioscience Business Meet your educational needs as a bioscience professional with a comprehensive series of courses from UC Berkeley Extension. Our goal is to keep you current with the industry's latest developments and provide practical knowledge on topics of critical importance to bioscience companies. Our courses provide you with the opportunity to connect with expert instructors who have years of industry experience, as well as with colleagues from many disciplines and companies. Please Click Here For More Information. What Are Recruiters Looking for in a Competitive Job Market? Top Interview Questions Revealed by Masimo, Amyris, and Watson Pharma By Suvarna Sheth, Special Career Feature With a fresh year ahead of us, it's still a highly competitive market in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries, and recruiters are doing all they can to ask the right questions to recruit the best candidates. Read ahead for some inside information on what recruiters from some of the leading companies in the industry are looking for during the interview. More... Keep getting rejected because I'm over-qualified! What do I do when I keep hearing "Sorry, we know you can do the job but we're looking for someone with less experience." I read all the tips about how to play down my resume and experience and lowered my salary expectations. Any insight would be great. Any other tips that I can use? More... More Features • HR Expert Lists 10 Tips to Landing a Job More... • Want to Get Hired Faster? Run Your Job Search Like a PR Campaign More... • When They Don't Call To Offer You The Job More... • "Winging it" Won't Cut it in Today's Job Interview More... • Lifting the Curtain on the Hiring Process More... More Career Features   • Vertex Pharmaceuticals (MA) (VRTX)'s Matt Emmens on His Journey From Security Guard to CEO More... • Array BioPharma, Inc. (ARRY) Names Bengt Bergstrom, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Clinical Development More... • IsoRay, Inc. (ISR) Hires Vice President of Research and Development More... • Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (BASI) Announces Management Changes, Election of New Director More... • Pepscan Strengthens Management Team More... More Who's Who • Genetown (Canton, Massachusetts) sanofi pasteur, Acambis Campus Manufacturing Associate We are currently looking for a Manufacturing Associate for our Massachusetts facility to perform upstream and downstream production activities in a cGMP manufacturing environment. • Pharm Country (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) International Partnership for Microbicides Materials Planning and Supply Chain Manager In this exciting role, you will track and analyze the clinical product demand forecast. 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