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    Some useful iPhone Apps for your career search.

    March 30, 2011 6:31 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    If like most job seekers, you're looking to use technology to help you be more productive in your job hunting, then iPhone Apps are an important element you should be looking at. iphone apps

    We'll let you know about any great apps we find, but in the meantime, Underground Recruiter have compiled a good list of what they call the "latest career-boosting applications".

    Career Search iPhone Apps

    Have you come across or do you use any others? - if so - let us know!

    Mike
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    Roche sucht Ingenieure!

    March 30, 2011 11:42 AM | TedM

    Werden Sie Teil unserer neuen Organisation "Insulin Delivery Systems" als berufserfahrener Ingenieur (m/w).

    Wussten Sie, dass mehr als 246 Millionen Menschen mit Diabetes leben und es tglich mehr werden?An unserem Standort in Mannheimetablieren wir eine neue Einheit zurForschung und Entwicklung von innovativen Infusionssystemen zur Abgabe von Insulin.

    Setzen Sie Zeichen. Fr ein besseres Leben. Und arbeiten Sie fr Menschen mit Diabetes.

    Interesse geweckt?

    Head of Design Verification and Validation (m/w)
    Head of Infusion Set (m/w)
    Head of Product Care (m/w)
    Head of Modules (m/w)
    Head of Insulin Pumps (m/w)

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    Entwicklungsingenieur Maschinenbau als Medical Design Fachexpert (m/w)
    Entwicklungsingenieur Maschinenbau als Sterile Comsumables Fachexpert (m/w)
    Entwicklungsingenieur Maschinenbau als Pump Engine Fachexpert (m/w)

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    Embedded Software Engineer (m/w)
    Software Engineer (m/w)

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    Systems Engineer (m/w)

     
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    Roche Germany a star employer

    March 29, 2011 9:36 AM | TedM

    Roche is a star employer. This is the result of the recent study Praktikantenspiegel 2010 in which university students and graduates were interviewed.

    The aim of the study was to compare the promises of employer brands and the reality at work.
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    Video against Diabetes

    March 24, 2011 6:10 PM | TedM

    Let's get some views for the official "I choose to live" music video. The song is about the impact of Diabetes on the world and the importance of prevention. Written and performed by South African Kwaito star, Howza (Tshepo Mosese)

    I choose to live - YouTube

    The song, written and performed with fellow South African artist Omen (Sabelo Mzizi) also includes the voices of the Grammy Award winning Soweto Gospel Choir.

     
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    Five Simple Steps to a Successful Covering Letter

    March 23, 2011 6:37 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    Your Covering LetterFor all the plethora of resumes that land on a recruiters desk every day, the covering letter is perhaps one of the few real ways of differentiating yourself from the crowd. A good covering letter accomplishes two key objectives. First, it makes a concise and structured case for your candidacy. But critically, it does so in a way that is both engaging and rhetorically pleasing. Admittedly, blending these two attributes effectively can be challenging. It is however perhaps the surest way of improving your application and securing that all important position. Here are five of the more obvious ways of achieving this:
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    6 Reasons your Resume got no response

    March 16, 2011 6:36 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    6 Reasons your Resume got no responseIn a recruitment climate as competitive as the present one, frustration is sometimes a natural consequence of trying. Patience and perseverance are key and giving up is simply not an option. Yet as important as that kind of positive thinking is, if youre constantly sending out your resume to countless companies without reply, the problem may be more fundamental.
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    Roche Sponsor The International Liver Congress (EASL) Annual Meeting

    March 15, 2011 4:37 PM | TedM

    Roche is a major sponsor of The International Liver Congress (EASL) Annual Meeting in Berlin March 30
    The International Liver Congress 2011 by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) provides an opportunity for around 7,500 clinicians and scientists from around the world to receive the latest research, perspectives and treatments of liver disease from principal experts in the field.

    This International Liver Congress features a high-caliber and multi-disciplinary scientific programme featuring groundbreaking information and in-depth examination of the most essential topics.

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    Work and Career Quotes

    March 7, 2011 1:00 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    A selection of work, careers and business quotes to inspire you!


    A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty

    Winston Churchill
    All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

    Galileo
    Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

    Robert Louis Stevenson
    However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

    Winston Churchill
    I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end

    Abraham Lincoln
    I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn

    Albert Einstein
    If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this

    Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M PostIt Notepads.
    If you think youre too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room

    Anita Roddick
    It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure

    Bill Gates
    Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction Anne Frank
    Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.-

    Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
    My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

    Winston Churchill
    Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

    Thomas Edison
    Price is what you pay, value is what you get

    Warren Buffett
    Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. -

    Henry Ford
    Saying nothing...sometimes says the most

    Emily Dickinson
    Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time

    George Bernard Shaw
    Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

    Winston Churchill
    The strongest leaders do not command, they empower.

    Ralph Marston
    To lose patience is to lose the battle

    Mahatma Gandhi
    Try not to become a person of success but a person of value

    Albert Einstein
    We dont have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many

    Larry Page
    When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

    Thomas Jefferson
    When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

    Alexander Graham Bell
    You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

    Charles Bruxton
    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

    Bill Gates

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    4 Simple Ways to Improve Your CV

    March 2, 2011 6:21 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    In a recruitment climate typified by rejection, its easy to exaggerate your weaknesses and to play down your strengths. This applies too in the case of your CV. For while some CVs might need entirely re-writing, many simply require subtle modification and an eye for polish. And when the average recruiter will likely spend less than a minute on each application, its often the little things that count. Here are four simple tips to get you started
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    Targeting Your Job Search

    March 1, 2011 5:00 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    Target your job searchTheres a famous saying in life. You will usually get out what you put in. And never has a maxim been so aptly applied than in the case of the job market. Be it for an industry expert with over a decade of experience or for a recent graduate just starting out, focussing your job search is often one of the primary keys to success. Doubtless, emphasising your myriad skills is always a positive thing. Yet loosely define your specific area of interest at your peril. It restricts your productivity and can even lead to internal confusion over the precise type of role youre actually looking for. Recruiters are looking for a focus, so make sure you have one. Here are a few tips to get you started
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