UK Biotechnology Market is Forecast to Grow 4% Annually to 2015!

According to the report “Biotechnology in the United Kingdom” the UK biotechnology market is forecast to accelerate, the publisher Marketline anticipates CAGR of 4% for 2010 – 2015, which is expected to boost the market to a value of $8,503.2 million by the end of 2015.

Marketline states that the UK biotechnology market had total revenue of $6,980.5 million in 2010, a compound annual growth rate of 3.6% between 2006 and 2010. Medical/Healthcare sales proved the most lucrative for the UK biotechnology market in 2010, with total revenues of $4,826.5 million, equivalent to 69.1% of the market’s overall value. View the report “Biotechnology in the United Kingdom”

http://www.mycompanypr.com/uk-biotechnology-market-is-forecast-to-grow-4-annually-to-2015/pr/13317/

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Southcott Schleps the Southern Slopes!

Schlep?

schlep (verb) (third-person singular simple present schleps, present participle schlepping, simple past and past participle schlepped) (transitive) (slang) To carry or to drag around.

1. I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day.

schlep (noun) (plural schleps)

1. A long or burdensome journey.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schlep

The Utterly Admirable Kristina Southcott - one of Seltek's finest consultants - selflessly devoted herself to charity on Sunday 25th September 2011, by undertaking a 21 mile walk through Stroud's famous Five Valleys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Valleys in order to raise money for meningitis research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis http://www.meningitis.org/ . And she didn't even take a day off work to do this!

Kristina's clients and candidates will already be aware of her willingness to 'go the extra mile' for a good cause, so this latest venture will come as no surprise to all who know her.

Please help Kristina fight the scourge of meningitis and give something, anything, whatever you can by visiting www.virginmoneygiving.com/KristinaSouthcott

Well done Kristina for completing the walk!

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Email Etiquette: What are the Etiquette Rules?

There are many etiquette guides and many different etiquette rules. Some rules will differ according to the nature of your business and the corporate culture. Below we list what we consider as the 32 most important email etiquette rules that apply to nearly all companies.

32 most important email etiquette tips:

1. Be concise and to the point
2. Answer all questions, and pre-empt further questions
3. Use proper spelling, grammar & punctuation
4. Make it personal
5. Use templates for frequently used responses
6. Answer swiftly
7. Do not attach unnecessary files
8. Use proper structure & layout
9. Do not overuse the high priority option
10. Do not write in CAPITALS
11. Don't leave out the message thread
12. Add disclaimers to your emails
13. Read the email before you send it
14. Do not overuse Reply to All
15. Mailings > use the bcc: field or do a mail merge
16. Take care with abbreviations and emoticons
17. Be careful with formatting
18. Take care with rich text and HTML messages
19. Do not forward chain letters
20. Do not request delivery and read receipts
21. Do not ask to recall a message.
22. Do not copy a message or attachment without permission
23. Do not use email to discuss confidential information
24. Use a meaningful subject
25. Use active instead of passive
26. Avoid using URGENT and IMPORTANT
27. Avoid long sentences
28. Don't send or forward emails containing libelous, defamatory, offensive, racist or obscene remarks
29. Don't forward virus hoaxes and chain letters
30. Keep your language gender neutral
31. Don't reply to spam
32. Use cc: field sparingly

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Disappearing Pie Mystery Illuminated!

There are now more overweight people in the world than under-nourished. But however normal it has become to be heavy, no one is too fat to exercise, says Lucy Atkins

It's an unsettling fact: the number of overweight people in the world has now topped one billion, compared with 800 million undernourished people. And here in the UK obesity has risen by 400% in the last 25 years. We are, perhaps not coincidentally, also significantly less active nowadays. According to the Department of Health, our collective inactivity costs the government about £8.2bn annually.

Exercising if you are overweight or obese can be challenging on many levels, but it is perfectly possible to become fit even if your Body Mass Index puts you in the danger zone. Medically speaking, there is nothing stopping even the fattest person from embarking on an exercise regime, says Dr Simon Till, chair of the British Association of Sports Medicine and consultant physician in sports medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. "Nobody is too obese to increase their activity, and anyone who raises the level of activity will benefit." As for the common fear of giving yourself a heart attack, or straining something. "There is no more risk associated with exercise for an overweight or obese person than there is for someone of a healthy weight, providing they increase their activity levels gradually," says Till.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/aug/17/health.lifeandhealth?INTCMP=SRCH

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Hot Jobs

Hotter than Sebastian Vettel's exhaust pipe, or the flames exuding from Mike Tindall's nostrils as he bore down on terrified Romanian backs, hotter than Fernando Torres' scorching pace as he ..err..began to score goals again (before he so foolishly got himself red-carded!)...Yay! Hotter than all these things are Seltek's Hot Jobs!

Ignore the heatwave of our Indian Summer..you'll be frozen before too long..so warm the cockles of your career with a step forward into one of these outstanding opportunities!

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  This strategically important role is to act as the specialist covering the whole of the UK biotechnology market and will focus on new and existing customers in research and also process development segments. The role is a home-based field sales / account manager specialist role and will involve engaging R&D and upstream development teams involved in the discovery and preclinical phases of therapeutic antibody development. This will involve initial liaison with the client and subsequent support of their process and media development as they move through clinical trials process and scale-up.
  

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Hot Candidates

The barman said: "Sorry, we don't serve neutrinos." A neutrino enters a bar.

This is but one of many tweets inspired by the news that neutrinos – ghostly subatomic particles – may travel faster than light. If so, science fiction could become science fact, with wonderful paradoxes such as effects preceding their causes. One example would be the punchline preceding the story (in case, like me, it took a while for you to decode the joke).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/24/einstein-e-equals-mc2?INTCMP=SRCH

Despite excited speculation, it seems entirely likely that Dr Einstein was in fact correct in his earlier theories that nothing can exceed the speed of light.

Except...we believe that business owners and managers can increase their profits faster than the speed of light (almost) by hiring one of Seltek's extremely fast and extremely Hot Candidates!

Scientific Sales & Marketing Division

* Product Champion (PhD Chemistry) (Bilingual!) * Live anywhere! * £60K * Ref: 114116

* Senior Product Manager (Microbiology) (Bilingual!) * N. Home Counties!* £55/60K * Ref: 34110

* Key Account Manager (Medical) * N. Home Counties * £48K * Ref: 112434

* Internal Sales Manager (Supervisory) * Live Anywhere! * £45/53K * Ref: 99123

* Key Account Manager (Diagnostics) (PhD Biology) * Live Anywhere! * £45K * Ref: 86486

* Product Manager (Microbiology) * N. Home Counties! * £45K * Ref: 74610

* Key Account Manager (PhD Drug Metabolism) * M4 Corridor *£43/53K * Ref: 101860

* Account Manager (Microfluidic Instruments) * Live Anywhere! * £40/50K * Ref: 78963

* Technical Sales Manager (Polymer Catalysts) * North West! * £36/44K * Ref: 113841

* Sales Account Manager (Antibodies)(Quadrilingual!) * Live Anywhere! * £30K * Ref: 114097

* Marketing Manager (Drug Discovery) (Trilingual* Eastern England! * £25K * Ref: 114107

* Trainee Commercial Scientist (PhD Biomedical) * Live Anywhere! * £24K * Ref: 113800