Spring Clean Your CV for Summer!

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Although spring has been and gone and summer is (supposedly!) here, there is no time like the present to give your CV a spring clean! Your CV is your most useful tool for marketing yourself to potential employers, and is often the first step taken towards securing that all-important first interview. Follow our tips below to ensure that your CV is appealing and relevant-content rich.

CLEANSE

  • Take out information that no longer supports your career goals. Irrelevant roles can be deleted or grouped together in an “Additional Experience” section to allow prominence of those that are more relevant.
  • Get to the point! Keep sentences short yet informative.
  • Easy-to-read and visually appealing text is preferable to densely packed paragraphs with information that ‘waffles’. Keep to the point, keep relevant.
  • Keep it uniform – use the same font throughout and use bullet points to list duties.

POLISH

  • Choose a font that is easy to read on screen, experiment with sizes (smaller for company details, for example) and use bold to highlight key information.
  • Tailor your CV to the role you are aiming for – ideally cross-reference the job description to ensure you are using appropriate keywords. Evidence is key!
  • List your job duties beneath each position. List your achievements, responsibilities and results.
  • Prioritise the order of your duties to match the requirements of the position you are applying for.
  • Work experience should be in reverse chronological order – current job first.
  • Use the past tense for previous jobs and the present tense for your current job.
  • Explain any gaps in your work history – travelling, maternity leave, education.

RECYCLE

  • Thinking of changing career direction? Returning to a previous job? Aiming for a promotion? Older experience such as previous roles, skills, achievements, training, projects etc may now be more relevant!
  • Be prepared to rework the theme and layout of your CV. You may want to re-position older details to make them more prominent, or highlight different aspects of your experience to make them appear more relevant for your current goals.

Obtained a new professional or personal achievement? Additional duties added to your role? Constantly updating your CV every time a relevant happening occurs within your current role or personal life will assure that your CV is always ready and up to date, should the perfect opportunity arise.

New Regulatory Divisions & New Staff Promotion

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Yet another internal promotion and new division establishment has occurred at Kinetica! Congratulations to Holly Dunsby who has been promoted to Senior Consultant of our newly developed Regulatory division. This division has been created to allow Kinetica to keep up with market demands and will be led by Holly who has 3.5 years of scientific recruitment experience.

Holly will be working with clients and candidates from a range of industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Medical Instrumentation, Veterinary Medicines, Cosmetics, Agrochemicals, Chemicals and FMCG.

The scope of our expertise will be wide and varied and our aim is to provide a bespoke head hunting service to find the best Regulatory staff for small, medium and large sized companies based across the UK & Europe.

We will be working with regulatory professionals who are experts in their field. Whether you are looking for a REACH Professional, a Toxicologist, a Head of Regulatory Affairs our belief is that we can find you the best role.

With a background in biochemistry, Holly has had previous successes recruiting for Regulatory professionals across all areas. Kinetica aims to build a comprehensive team over the next few years with specialist consultants dedicated to each market sector who will cover the full scope of Regulatory Affairs.

Current roles we are recruiting for include Regulatory Affairs Managers, Regulatory Affairs Associates, REACH specialists and Registration Specialists in the agrochemicals industry – please visit the scientific jobs section of our website for further details.

Scientific, Regulatory, Jobs, UK, Europe

Holly Dunsby

Staff Promotions!

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Here at Kinetica, we recognise and reward the achievements and hard work of our staff, which is why TWO of our staff members – Claire Ash and Natalie Howson – have been promoted!

Claire has been promoted to Finance Manager of Kinetica. This new role will build on the solid work that Claire has completed over the past 9 years, and she will now be fully focussing on all financial aspects of Kinetica.

Natalie has been promoted to become the Administration & Marketing Executive for the company. This will build on the work that Natalie has completed over the past 3.5 years and she will now be adding marketing responsibilities to her workload. With full responsibility for all web content, a key focus of Natalie’s will be to get the best from the Kinetica website.

Whilst congratulating Claire and Natalie, we are still constantly on the search for top performing individuals to join our team. If you are interested in working for a company where your success will be rewarded financially, coupled with the opportunity to develop a long term career path, then please come and talk to us! Opportunities are available at both our Leeds and London offices.

Finance ManagerAdministration & Marketing Executive

Introducing James Gillman…

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Senior Medical Recruitment Consultant

We are extremely excited to introduce James, our newest member to the Medical Recruitment Team at Kinetica.  James has come to us with a wealth of recruitment experience in medical devices with particular focus on orthopaedics, spine & cardiovascular.  Tom Hope (Medical Director) welcomes James into his team and is really looking forward to working with him on future sales, marketing, product, training and education ventures.  Please do not hesitate to contact James if you have any medical device positions you need help to fill or you are looking for a career move within the area of orthopaedics, spine or cardiovascular.  You can contact James by e-mail: james@kinetica.co.uk or call him at our Leeds office on: 0113 2617181.

Biotech, Pharma & Medical Device Employees Brimming with Confidence…

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Biotech, pharma and medical device companies within Europe need to be aware that they could lose their best employees to countries further afield.

Recent research has found that most professionals within these industries are feeling a lot more confident with job security than they have done for many years.  However in turn this confidence is leading to many people opening themselves up to the job market and considering what else is around.

Better career opportunities and improved salaries in economically expanding countries are enticing precious employees away from Europe.  It is thought many would be happy to go “across the pond” as well as considering taking a position in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).  This could potentially lead to an industry battle that would be better not fought.  But unless Europe can accommodate more demanding employees, they could experience a skills shortage.  In essence it is essential that European companies offer an attractive proposition to current and future employees and win the war on talent.

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Vacancies at Kinetica…

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Would you like to join our experienced team of consultants?  We have vacancies for both experienced Recruitment Consultants and Graduates looking to get into recruitment.  At present we have a Scientific and Medical team and are always keen to expand our Leeds and London offices.

Checklist

Do you think you would enjoy…..

  • A predominantly office based role?
  • A fast paced environment?
  • Spending approximately 70% of your time on the phone?
  • A lot of initial cold calling?

Are you…..

  • Good at working under pressure?
  • Knowledgeable of the Scientific, Healthcare or Engineering Industry?
  • A good communicator?
  • Results orientated?
  • Motivated by money?
  • Intelligent and easy going, but competitive and ambitious?
  • Commutable to Leeds or London?

Then maybe recruitment is the job for you and here at Kinetica we would very much welcome the opportunity to make you feel part of our close knit team.

What is in it for you?

  • Good basic salary
  • Fantastic commission structure with open ended earnings
  • Personal Pension Scheme within first 6 months of employment, including company contribution of 5% of salary
  • Standard 20 Days holiday – with ability to accrue up to 25 days with each year of service
  • Extensive training scheme
  • Future opportunity to join the company Healthcare scheme
  • Incentives – our most recent incentive was a weekend in New York.
  • Regular Social Events

Want to know more?

 

A day in the life of a Kinetica Recruitment Consultant

Snapshot

  • Find Candidate
  • Find Clients
  • Match the right people to the right job
  • Arrange interviews
  • Place people in new jobs

If upon starting with Kinetica you are new to recruitment we will give you a weeks long intensive training – which will take you through the basic “ins and outs” of what the job entails.  You will then be prepared to start tackling the job in hand.  You’ll be sat amongst experienced consultants to help guide you through the day to day tasks but it will be up to you to get the ball rolling.

 

  • Find Candidates – We have an extensive database which is a vital resource for finding candidates, however other methods we use are headhunting, external candidate databases and obtaining referrals.  It will be up to you to contact these candidates to discuss the relevant opportunity and guage their interest.
  • Find Clients – Build relationships with Key Decision Makers / HR Departments; gather valuable information about the client.  You may need to visit the client face-to-face.
  • Find Vacancies – Talk to clients to obtain vacancies that they are currently looking to fill.  You will also need to keep up to date with industry news and finding vacancies advertised in other media sources, i.e. websites, industry journals and magazines.
  • Arrange Interviews - Send an appropriate shortlist of candidates to the client so that they can then decide who they want to bring in for interview.  You will then arrange first and second interviews between the candidate and client and fully brief all parties in preparation.  After the interview you need to get feedback from both parties and aid the client in their decision making process.
  • Place people in new jobs - Hopefully an offer will then be made to one of your candidates, at which point you need to manage all the job offer negotiations right up until the candidate commences employment.  This could entail advice on offer procedures, resignation, appropriate salary.

Fingers crossed the placements will come rolling in – but in order to maintain constant business you will need to attend relevant exhibitions, take advantage of any networking situation, constantly hunt for suitable candidates and vacancies, visit key clients and hold candidate interview days out of the office.

At Kinetica we pride ourselves on NOT being a consultancy that just puts “Bums on Seats” – we make sure we are only talking to candidates about jobs we genuinely think they can do and will enjoy.  Therefore it’s paramount that our consultants have the desire to work ethically, effectively and efficiently on all our candidates and clients behalf.  In return you will get immense job satisfaction and reap the rewards of what can be an extremely well paid career.

The job of a Recruitment Consultant is not for the faint hearted, so if you have a drive for success, then please do not hesitate to contact us.  Please call the office on 0113 2617181 and ask to speak to Matthew Tuton or alternatively you can e-mail us on info@kinetica.co.uk.

Ever Considered a Scientific Sales Job?

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Kinetica is a forward thinking, proactive, specialist recruitment consultancy who focus significantly on scientific sales positions.  Our sole aim is to provide a professional and efficient recruitment solution, which ensures the right candidate is matched to the right career opportunity.  From our UK base, we are ideally positioned to adopt a global perspective on recruitment and currently experiencing solid growth across Europe and America.  We have excellent relationships with companies of all sizes. Whether it is a small scientific supplier in the UK requiring a salesperson or an international blue-chip organisation making strategic recruitment decisions, we are ideally placed to match you to your perfect scientific sales job.  Our hard working consultants have a wealth of experience gained across a wide range of scientific disciplines such as biotechnology, drug discovery, analytical instrumentation, informatics, clinical diagnostics and laboratory equipment.  You can be assured that Kinetica is discreet and our service is completely confidential.

Make sure you stand out from the crowd – let Kinetica guide you in your next career move and give yourself the best possible start to your sales career.  Call us on 0113 2617181 or e-mail  info@kinetica.co.uk.

 

Growth in the medical sales jobs market …

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The healthcare market is almost certainly going to experience tough times in 2013 as the NHS makes further cuts in order to achieve government saving targets.  However, this opens up opportunities for medical sales jobs as businesses prove they can provide quality products and services.

Sales professionals with the right experience and the right skills are key to the success of a company in 2013.  As a specialist recruitment company we have a wealth of knowledge working within the medical / healthcare market – building excellent relationships with key decision makers and candidates alike.  So if you are keen to discuss your current career and explore what exciting medical sales jobs we have or maybe you have an exciting position you need help filling, then please do not hesitate to contact Tom Hope on 0113 2617181 or via e-mail at tom@kinetica.co.uk.

CLICK HERE to visit the Healthcare section of our website to read more about our service or search for current jobs.

Introducing Holly Dunsby …

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We are very pleased to be able to welcome Holly into our Core Science Recruitment Team at Kinetica.  Holly will be based at our Leeds office, adding to the ever expanding team.  Holly already comes to us with plenty of temporary and permanent recruitment experience under her belt and so is very well placed to be working on our Laboratory positions within the Scientific and Engineering industry.  We are all really pleased to have her onboard.  You can contact Holly by e-mail: holly.dunsby@kinetica.co.uk or Tel: 0113 2617181.

Nearly Christmas, why not make sure your CV is up to date …

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Christmas is around the corner, so as well as eating lots of food, playing charades and watching the TV Christmas specials – why not take half an hour to update your CV.  With these times of austerity, it’s certainly a wise move to make sure you’re ready for any eventuality or perhaps you’re already contemplating a career move.  Recruitment often slows down around christmas, however the New Year always brings fresh and exciting opportunities.  Don’t miss out on potential career progression because you haven’t got round to preparing your CV.  Here are some simple points to remember:

  • Keep it short and to the point, but make sure the content is as strong as it can be.
  • Don’t write more than two pages.
  • Format your C.V. in a neat and orderly fashion.
  • Education and Employment must be listed with most recent first.
  • Try to make your strong points subtly stand out from the rest of the page.
  • Include necessary contact details so that the employer can easily get in touch with you.
  • Include briefly what you achieved in other roles and how you made that happen.
  • Use constructive wording, but don’t lie!
  • Careful of being too honest, e.g. Don’t say that you like to go out drinking (even though it may be true).
  • Include referees you know are prepared to say good things about you. If you can’t contact them immediately, write ‘References available on request’

Follow this link to download a copy of our recommended CV format.