Candidates! Get bear-hugged!

The benefits of working with Seltek exclusively:

Candidates who are 'in the job market' i.e. actively looking for a new job, often feel that they will find more and better opportunities if they register with several (or even many!) different agencies. Whilst this is understandable, it is flawed thinking. You wouldn't ask several travel agencies to arrange your next holiday, would you? No. You would assess the relative merits of the agencies and pick the one that you believe will do the best job for you.

At Seltek we work much harder for candidates who place their faith with us. We call this bear-hugging.

The highly experienced team of consultants at Seltek are fully au fait with the science sales marketplace. Whilst we can't promise that we are aware of every job currently available, even within our own specialist marketplace, we do know about many of them, at any given time. We are certainly in constant communication with most of the significant employer organisations.

For candidates who work with us on a sole agency basis, we will conduct vigorous targeted marketing campaigns. In collusion with the candidate (you!) we will compile a list of 'target' companies which you would like to work for, and call them all to promote you.
Furthermore, if you see companies advertising, or hear on the grapevine that a company is recruiting, you can ask us to make contact with them on your behalf. In this way, rather than merely applying to a job or a company, you will benefit from having a skilled salesperson (your Seltek Consultant) enthusiastically sell you!

For candidates who place their faith in us, the search for your new career is relentless. We will continue until the job is done, and you are safely ensconsed in your new workplace. No more calls that won't be returned. You will become our 'Star' candidate!

If you place your faith in us and allow us to market you to targeted companies, you will enjoy the privilege of being put forward to our clients for assessment on your own merits, and not alongside five other candidates. This will give you a head start on your competitors in the job marketplace, and a distinct advantage in the race for the best jobs.

Don't misunderstand us: we will still work for you even if you are registered with other agencies.
But we will work much harder for you if you allow us to bear-hug you!

For more information about how to become the next Seltek bear, call Guy Buncombe, Director of Seltek Consultants Ltd on 01279657716 or email guy@seltekconsultants.co.uk

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Further Growth at Seltek!

Seltek welcomes Miss Charmi Desai to the Life Science Sales team in Bishop's Stortford! A graduate in Human Biology and a Master (presumably that should be Mistress?!) in Molecular Medicine, with several years experience of working in customer service with a major force in world banking, Charmi will be assisting us scour Planet Earth for the finest human beings on behalf of our clients.
A member of Mensa, and winner of numerous Mensa competitions, she asks: What is the fastest way to a brilliant new career? The answer, for those of you more intellectually challenged than the good Charmi is of course to telephone her on 01279 657716 or email charmi@seltekconsultants.co.uk

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Irish Eyes Are Smiling!

Congratulations to Irish golfer Padraig Harrington who won The British Open Golf Championship, in a dramatic playoff with Spain's Sergio Garcia. Both men were tied at the end of an exciting contest, and it was reassuring for European followers of The Noble Game that there would be a local winner of the competition for the first time since it was last held at Carnoustie in 1999.

There had to be a winner though, and it was the Irishman who held his nerve sufficiently in the four-hole playoff, to win through and capture his first major trophy. Padraig has contributed enormously to the success of European golf in recent years, and no one would begrudge him his success. In golfing terms, Garcia, nine years Harrington's junior, is still a young man and possesses such awesome talent it seems inevitable he will take one or more of the game's top prizes sometime in the future.

Is there any place for such information in a biotech recruiter's Hotsheet? Nope.

Can we at least learn something from this epic event? Yes!
Harrington threw away two shots on the last hole of the championship proper, in what seemed like a re-run of the amazing turn of events in 1999 when the Frenchman Jean Van der Velde did exactly the same thing before losing in the playoff to Scotland's Paul Laurie.
In stark contrast, Harrington who is a client of the renowned sports psychologist Bob Rotella (if you are a golfer, and you haven't read his books, you should!), refocused for deciding playoff, and as the history books now show, prevailed.

Never say die! (The power of Positive Mental Attitude)

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