omega0684
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:02 PM |
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I NEED YOUR HELP FINDING A JOB!
Sorry this topic is in the anything else (car related section) but i want it to be put on the main page for maximum exposure.
Now that i am feeling better and think im fit enough to return to work after a 10 month illness, i need your help finding a job!
i have spent all weekend looking for positions that may suit my qualifications but im coming up very short, i have just come back from a meeting with
a careers adviser at the job centre and she was, to put it nicely, rather useless.
i have a degree in Virology (Biologically related subject) from the University of Warwick, A-levels in Maths,Biology and Chemistry & an AS in
Further Mathematics with 3 years operational management experience.
obviously these are only the main qualifications, i can also build cars  I can pretty much do anything i put my mind to!
ideally looking for something in a science related field but will consider anything, i was wondering if any of you work in the food industry or any
science related field and know if the company are looking for microbiologists/biologists/Virologists/cellular biologists or work for people like the
environment agency or seven trent etc, you can see where im coming from
it would also be good to do a Graduate Management program or something similar?
all suggestions welcome!
I know i can count on you
Alex
[Edited on 13/7/09 by omega0684]
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pewe
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:10 PM |
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Presumably you are watching out for suitable positions via New Scientist?
Access on-line?
If you want some recent back-copies No2 son will no doubt be willing to send some. U2U me yr address if interested.
BOL.
Cheers, Pewe 
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vinny1275
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:11 PM |
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Are you looking to stay around Coventry, or happy to move elsewhere? (Not my thing, tho I did used to work for a microbiology instrument supplier in
Oxford), but it will help the other guys if they know where in the world you're thinking of..
good news that you're well enough to be going back to work too 
Cheers
Vince
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omega0684
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:30 PM |
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ideally looking to stay in the midlands for the next year or so but willing to commute up to an hour as a rough guide
[Edited on 13/7/09 by omega0684]
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mikeb
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:36 PM |
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if your desperate try getting a job at a uni, you could do a PhD or work in one of the labs etc, not too bad pay depending on what ur use to.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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contaminated
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 03:46 PM |
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DETS
Alcontrol Geochem
JEF
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phil4521
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 04:30 PM |
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maybe take a year out with VSO - this will build you cv and life skills- in a year the whole economy will look better and you will be more
marketable...
Gave same advise to my daughter who has just got science MSc.....
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 04:52 PM |
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what is your operational management experience?
Tried jobs.nhs.uk?
LOTS of jobs on there.
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MikeR
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 04:53 PM |
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its also something you'll never forget and some of us older folks (ok, i'm not that much older but have house etc) regret not doing it
when younger.
Also - it helps explain your long absence from work "i was off doing VSO" is a much better opening statement to an employer than "i
was ill". The fact you where ill and doing vso can get lost in translation without you having to lie.
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A1
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:08 PM |
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join the merchant navy. youll need to go to college, but its paid for by a sponsoring company.
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omega0684
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:12 PM |
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operational management wise i have 18 months worth of logistical. car operations working with Enterprise Rent-A-car, ran a 150 car branch, a lot of
quick thinking required finding alternative solutions for emergency car usage and movement, inventries, stock taking, marketing, customer service
management, forecasting, all that sort of stuff.
before that i was operations manager for next retail in Coventry. again a lot of forecasting, predicting sales trends, stock inventry and purchasing
etc, health and safety manager as well really.
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200mph
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:20 PM |
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Spooky 
My degree is Immunology, and I had a 9 month period off work for illness.
After returning to work I joined a Graduate Programme with a well known bank (didn't think that (i) this was possible or (ii) they'd want
me) and despite this being the worst time to ever work for a bank, I love my job.
I've recently given presentations to Biology students at Stirling Uni on transferrable skills and the opportunities outwith science. One of the
guys there was from the Nuclear power industry, and he was saying it's a massive growth sector. The site he referred to was
www.nucleargraduates.com
Another thing I looked at was scientific sales. This may or may not be your thing.
Lastly, merchant navy? Good friend of mine is looking at this - but he has nothing to tie him here. Again, might or might not be your cup o'
tea!
Cheers n beers
Mark
EDIT: started writing this at 6:00 so didn't see the comments about merchant navy.
[Edited on 13/7/09 by 200mph]
If it isn't broke, fix it until it is
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200mph
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:21 PM |
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and it gets spookier...
I worked in Car Rental at Uni and afterwards, for Europcar..
yet more similarities.
Do you have a crescent shaped birthmark on your left calf?
If it isn't broke, fix it until it is
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hughpinder
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:23 PM |
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How about pharmaceuticals. I know Novartis is taking on people for the flu vaccine plant in liverpool, and your degree sounds like it might give you a
chance of something there.
Try the following link
http://www.novartis.co.uk/careers/job_search.shtml
Regards
Hugh
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TimC
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| posted on 13/7/09 at 05:53 PM |
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You have u2u.
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