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Mary Canady who writes the Comprendia Blog and helps to manage the San Diego Biotechnology Network has crafted a number of useful social media lists for scientists and others who work in the life sciences industry. 

Videos are de rigueur and you can find a plethora of science video websites on Mary’s comprehensive list (almost, she forgot BioCrowd). 

Many life sciences and technology companies are experimenting with social media; primarily by writing corporate blogs. Check out Mary’s list of corporate life sciences bloggers to find out what they are thinking and blogging about. 

Finally, wikis are growing in influence and importance in the life sciences. There are a number of well crafted sciences wikis out there that may be useful. Click here to see the list.

Hat tip to Mary!

Until next time...

Good Luck and Good Job Hunting!!!!!

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The two most popular and well-attended career development seminars that I offer are about resume writing and face-to-face interviewing strategies. Because many of the participants are first time jobseekers, interest is largely and rightfully focused on resume writing. After all, a well crafted resume is an essential first step in any job search. However, if you are lucky enough to advance to the interview stage, you must be aware of the rules, regulations and terms of engagement of the interviewing process.

First, as many veteran jobseekers know, you will be asked a lot of seemingly irrelevant and whacky questions. Second, people who are interviewing for a job are expected to behave in professional and socially accepted manner. In other words, there are certain attitudes and behaviors that must be avoided at all costs if you want to get a job offer from a prospective employer. To that end, I found a couple of lists on the Internet—“The Top 50 Interview Questions that Employers Ask” and “50 Worst of the Worst (and Most Common) Job Interview Mistakes"—that are likely to be helpful to persons who may be preparing for an upcoming face-to-face job interview.

While many of the recommended behaviors to avoid may be fairly obvious to most of you, crafting appropriate answers to some of the questions on the Top 50 list may not be. By now, some of you may have googled “answers to the top 50 interview questions” and found a variety of lists that supply answers to some of the questions. However, while it may be helpful to look at those lists for guidance, I strongly advise that you come up with your own personalized responses. This is because prospective interviewers, like you may have found the same lists!

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Good Luck and Good Job Hunting!!!!!!

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Mark Senak, author of the EyeonFDA blog and “all around good guy,” has created a Twitter list that follows the tweets of all of the pharmaceutical companies that use Twitter. Because the list of companies that are currently using Twitter is so small, it is a convenient aggregation tool to monitor the musings and tweets of companies that participate! 

 Hat tip and shout out to Mark!

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Good Luck and Happy Holidays!!!!

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Berci Meskó author of the Science Roll blog recently compiled a list of sites that keep track of the scientists who use Twitter. He recommends: Science Pond (real time), Sciencebase (compilation) and for those of you with a medical bent the Medical Student Blog (compilation). And, for a list of medical journals that are tweeting check out this site. While the lists aren’t comprehensive you might be able to find friends, colleagues and journal editors who use Twitter.

Hat tip to Berci!

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Good Luck and Good Tweeting

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