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still a bad market?

8af769d658dd5a685313acbcb272174b-original-newspaper-ad6-hk.jpgI am still a little bit concerned. In October I wrote the following:

I am concerned that lots of people I talk to think that there are no jobs in the Chemical Sector. Now I am not saying it’s easy or that you will be able to move without a compromise somewhere. I especially understand that you might be disillusioned with the sector at the moment, particularly if your area is making lots of redundancies; but no jobs? I think I need to look into this on your behalf and find out either way……
 
So today, thanks to a question we got through the Careers Forum I have updated my findings, leaving last year's results in brackets. http://www.teacherhit.com/
N.B. I will not be searching by salary or location (as these are often compromises people make) and all data will be gathered today (31st May 2011) for the UK.
 
First stop: Online Newspaper/publications sites
 
Guardian website49 (29) jobs in Science
Telegraph website82 (47) jobs in Science/Environmental
Chemistry World Jobs – 156 (18) jobs
Nature Jobs1299 (197) jobs
New Scientist Jobs339 (261) jobs
 
Second stop: Online sites
 
www.inPharm.com – 447 (391) jobs
www.pharmiweb.co.uk – 1000 (1000) jobs
www.ends.co.uk (environmental) – 105 (176) jobs
www.jobs.ac.uk – 488 (352) jobs
www.environmentjob.co.uk – 103 (99) jobs
www.acre.com (environmental)
www.healthandsafety-jobs.co.uk – 233 (144) jobs
www.ipjobs.co.uk39 (48) jobs
www.oilandgasjobsearch.com – around 70 (50) jobs depending on individual function e.g. QA/QC/Technical etc
www.oilcareers.com – around 30 (5) jobs depending on individual function e.g. QA/QC/Technical etc
http://www.teacherhit.com/ - for teaching positions around Europe
 
Third stop: recruitment agencies
 
Reed Scientific  – 1381 (1103) jobs
Hays248 (205) jobs in the pharmaceutical sector
CK Science – approximately 310 (180) jobs, including some biochemistry roles
SRG146 (132) jobs
Lab Support 55 (35) jobs  

Fourth stop: Networking
 
Obviously this will come down to your own network of people but LinkedIn are currently hosting 102 jobs for pharmaceuticals, 78 for oil and gas and 85 for environmental and Twitter has at least 2274 jobs in science (400+ in chemistry).

As you can see, on the whole there are more jobs, this may be the time of year, it may be the market but whatever it is I am glad to be able to bring good news to you.
 
I know that you won’t be suitable for all of these or maybe have exact experience either but remember that you only need to meet 70% of the job criteria to put an application in, and it doesn’t always follow that the more you meet, the more successful you will be in securing the position. Sometimes enthusiasm trumps experience, not always, but it does happen.
 
I hope that you can see that there are more jobs than perhaps you first thought and that maybe this has given you some options you didn’t know about.
 

 
Posted by Charlotte Ashley-Roberts on May 31, 2011 10:42 AM Europe/London

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