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Wanted: bloggers
Vividlinks Life Sciences Career Community is all about interaction. Beginning of July 2010, Vividlinks will launch Vivid Blogs, an online portal for writers and readers to inspire and be inspired. Vivid Blogs is a meeting place for companies, professionals and students to meet each other. It’s also a place for expressing your ideas, and sharing your information. For being visible and stating your thoughts. And receiving valuable feedback from other Life Sciences professionals. Inspired? Find out what Vivid Blogs has to offer and create your own blog as soon as it is online. You'll be kept updated!
Do you have a question and you can’t find the answer? Or are you looking for reliable information and trustworthy sources? Find your answers on Vividlinks Forum. Vividlinks Forum is an open platform for discussion, debate and constructive conversation. It’s an easy way to post questions, hypotheses and ideas, to exchange information with other people from different organisations, functions, markets and nationalities. Curious? Visit Vividlinks Forum on www.vividlinks.eu/forum.
Do you have events, news, and other things to share? Please send it to info@vividlinks.eu! We’ll make sure it is spread throughout the community.
A Vividlinks Story
Sandra Negro, post-doc Animal Health, University of Liège
When Sandra Negro finalized her PhD in New Zealand about marine animals, she decided to search for her next job in Belgium, close to her family. After her extraordinary experience in New Zealand, she had difficulties to determine what she wanted to do. A friend of Sandra, also an ex-student at the University of Liège, drew her attention to a job posting at Vividlinks. Sandra made a profile, applied for the job and now she is doing her post-doc research on inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial functions in horses.
Searching…
"At the moment I use Vividlinks mainly as a career site. The labour market in Life Sciences is fragmented, the competition is very high." There are many job seekers, institutions and organizations in this sector, but it still lacked a central meeting place. This is what Vividlinks offers in a simple and transparent way. That vacancies from around the entire Euregio can be found, offers opportunities. “Working abroad gives me the opportunity to learn new insights, languages and techniques from different universities”. In addition, Sandra perceives Vividlinks as a way to keep track on what's going on with other professionals in her field, "I think that through Vividlinks, we can inspire and encourage each other in our work". Sandra's sister has just graduated and also visits Vividlinks regularly.
… and finding
Professionals from the University of Liège (ULg) also find their way to Vividlinks. We permanently recruit staff in the Life Sciences sector. Vividlinks is an interesting opportunity to find good candidates. Its catchy design and the idea of a community behind it are definitely good assets”, says Anne Goffin, working at the Human Resource Administration of ULg. Her colleague Elisabeth Waltregny adds, “We advise our alumni in Life Sciences to go to Vividlinks, create a profile and search for vacancies that fit their criteria”.
Job in the picture
(The Netherlands)
You will work under the direction of the supervisor in a team of young, driven professionals in a GMP environment on projects related to cell therapy and regenerative medicine. The Biotech Associate – Cellular Therapy Manufacturing works with autologous and allogeneic cell products in accordance to GMP conditions in a clean-room environment.
Facts & Figures
www.vividlinks.eu is the portal for students, professionals and companies in the Life Sciences sector in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR). Find interesting facts and figures about the Euregio and about all the aspects of Life Sciences.
188 companies have registered on the Vividlinks portal until now. There are over 280 student and professional profiles posted and over 100 vacancies. The portal is visited by more than 1.000 visitors a week.
The EMR has a population of around 3.9 million. This Euregio comprises the areas around, Hasselt, Liège, Maastricht and Aachen. It is rich of many centers of excellence in technology and in particular in the area of Life Sciences. For example, the sector has been providing breakthroughs in the medical field; e.g. in the development of cancer therapies, in the treatment of heart and vascular diseases and in the development of products that can take over body functions.
Events Calendar
Vividlinks keeps you up to date about the main Life Sciences events in the Euregio. Find upcoming events of next season.
HR Seminar on "Talent Creation and Retention" | 30.09.2010
Interface ULG Liège
Needless to say that talented people are essential in the current knowledge industry. A real challenge for many companies to find, to develop and to keep their human capital. Skills³ invited Jean Stéphenne, President and General Manager of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals and Jan Van der Vurst, founder of Kenaz and specialist in leadership development, to share their vision. www.skills3.eu
Master Class | 24.11.2010
Liège
Challenging International Workshop for students in Life Sciences. Skills³ seeks motivated senior students and graduates who want to meet top innovative companies and enforce their curriculum. www.skills3.eu
Found @ Vividlinks
Ute Steinbusch is Head of Business Development and Marketing at the German company Celonic. She was one of the first professionals to have a profile on Vividlinks. We asked her about her first experiences with Vividlinks.
How do you know Vividlinks?
"I have been working at Celonic now for two years. I used to work at AGIT before, the Regional Development Agency for the Technology Region Aachen. There we had the idea to initiate Skills³, a project aiming at strengthening the Euregional labour market in the Life Sciences sector. They had the same goal as us; to bring employers and students from the Euregional Life Sciences sector together. In this way I became quickly acquainted with Vividlinks, one of the activities of Skills³.
How do you use Vividlinks?
"Next to Business Development and Marketing, I’m also responsible for Human Resources at Celonic. We regularly have vacancies, at this moment we have two, for technical functions. We publish them onVividlinks, it gives us great response. We know that there are many qualified, highly-educated people in the Euregio, there is much potential. But it is not always easy to reach them. Students and companies can create a profile on Vividlinks; it allows us to restrict our search to those people who fit our vacancy. And vice versa, students can also look for companies and functions that appeal to them."
First experiences?
"What I like about Vividlinks is that it is a community, a network. This is especially interesting for young people. I think the possibilities for blogging and asking questions at a forum will be greatly appreciated. Just be aware, we will read them too of course!" adds Ute with a laugh. "We can learn a lot about what's happening amongst this target group. In the future I would be interested to also post job openings for senior functions and middle management to find qualified people. If it will be possible to hire also these kind of people via Vividlinks, this would be a great development."