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Finding the right people to send your application to can be a time consuming task, here, with the help of the ABPi we list the contact details for all the companies who are interested in hearing from
Personnel Manager Abbott Laboratories Abbott House Norden Road Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 4XE Tel: 01628 773355 Fax: 01628 644115 Online: www.abbott.com Personnel Manager Abbott Laboratories Queenborough Isle of Sheppey Kent ME11 5EL Tel: 01795 580099 Fax: 01795 593335 Online: www.abbott.com Recruitment Officer Amgen Limited 240 Cambridge Science Park Milton Road Cambridge CB4 4WD Tel: 01223 420305 Fax: 01223 426078 E-mail: uk-human-resources@uk.amgen.com Online: www.amgen.com Graduate Recruitment Officer General Recruitment AstraZeneca R&D at Charnwood Bakewell Road Loughborough Leiceste…

Since the explosion of debate around the internet and e-commerce began questions have been asked about the future role of the pharmaceutical sales representatives. Here we take a broader look at the r
Whether you're an experienced rep or just thinking of what type of car you might get with the job, you can't have helped but notice that the language of those who work in healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medicine is one of war. Even where the action is not necessarily bloody disease is talked of as an enemy that must be identified, targeted and then destroyed. On the frontline between those who develop and those who deliver the arsenal of weapons in this war, are pharmaceutical reps. If disease is our enemy, drugs are our weapons, what does that make the rep? Supplies officers, or like NATO o…

In this feature, previously published in Pharmafield, Nicky Hickman looks at what developments in new technology will mean for the rep. With internet technology becoming smaller and more portable and
In parts of Asia-Pacific, mobile 'phones are known locally as 'handy's' and that's really the best way of thinking of the new generation of mobile 'phones, pocket-sized computers and other mobile devices. What's happened to the technology? Two strands of information and communications technology are merging in our pockets. The first is computer technology. If you've read the novel 'Stark' by Ben Elton, you'll remember the Japanese tycoon who turned a profit by making his consumer electronics products so small, everyone kept losing them and hence having to replace them. Until now there's bee…

Often descibed as 'the modern disease', stress is believed to be an underlying reason behind seven out of ten trips to GPs and in a recent survey it was claimed that an astonishing nine out of ten peo
Stress Often descibed as 'the modern disease', stress is believed to be an underlying reason behind seven out of ten trips to GPs and in a recent survey it was claimed that an astonishing nine out of ten people in full time work felt that they were under stress. But why should this be so? We live in an era of unprecedented wealth and opportunity where filely any whim that can be entertained can be achieved. Meanwhile modern medicine is capable of curing a huge amount of the ailments that plagued our ancestors, we no longer have to fear attack by woolly mammoth or even commitment to the poorhou…

Tobias Rooney, Principal at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has specialised in the Life Sciences Unit R&D sector for the past five years. He looks at the current state of e-business in the Pharmaceutical ind
Could you introduce yourself? Tobias Rooney, Life Sciences Unit at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. I have been doing management consultancy for the past seven years and I've specialised in the R&D sector for the past five. I have been involved in European and international projects for the major pharmaceutical companies. These projects have included strategic and operational missions for clients from middle management right up to the board. What types of e-projects are happening in the Life sciences area? At CGEY we have a segmentation of the market in three layers of e-business activities…