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Andrew Wise wins Clinical Recruiter of the Year

Category: , , Posted: February 20, 2012

Andrew Wise, Principal Consultant in Blue Pelican’s Pharma Division, has won the coveted PharmaTimes Clinical Recruiter of the Year 2011 award, beating off stiff competition from consultants in other leading recruitment agencies and in-house recruiters from CROs. The Pharmatimes award was created in 2007 to recognise the specialist work done byRead more »

LinkedIn or LinkedOut?

Category: , , Posted: February 15, 2012

If a Recruitment Consultant invites you to connect with them on LinkedIn, do you accept, ignore or report as spam ?? We put this question to all the candidates we spoke with over a two week period, and the results were:    64.5% Yes 8.5% No 27% Yes but.......(only if I already know them, canRead more »

Are the ways you search for jobs set to change ?

Category: , , Posted: February 1, 2012

Is the increasing speed and comprehensiveness of Google’s indexing and ability to intelligently respond to complex Boolean search strings changing the job hunting landscape? A number of people we’ve spoken to have suggested the first thing they do when looking for a new position online is to search the desired job title and location via Google. ThisRead more »

The 5 Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2012

Category: , , Posted: January 27, 2012

An article posted on LinkedIn by Keith Cline in December suggests that the 5 hardest jobs to fill this year will be Software Engineers and Web Developers, Creative Design and User Experience, Product Management, Marketing, and Analytics. http://linkd.in/yL1v4U Whilst this article has a US bias we are seeing a similar trend inRead more »

European KOL and Stakeholder Engagement Summit

Category: , , , Posted: January 17, 2012

Andrew Wise, principal consultant on Blue Pelican’s pharmaceutical division will be attending eyeforpharma’s European KOL and Stakeholder Engagement summit, 21-22 Feb in Berlin.The conference aims to cover the most important issues within the KOL space to help industry medical affairs professionals build transparent, compliant and successful relationships with medical andRead more »

Over £5.5k raised for Kent Air Ambulance !

Category: , , Posted: December 23, 2011

2011 saw Blue Pelican support Kent Air Ambulance as their charity of choice. Over the course of the year each consultant has taken it upon themselves to do something good, giving up time, money, sweat and tears in order to raise as much money as possible for this worthy cause.Read more »

Blue Pelican Pirates !!

Category: , , Posted: September 29, 2011

We completed our first ever Dragon Boat race in aid of our Charity of the Year - Kent Air Ambulance - on September 18th. Sadly we didn't make the final but we did shave 29 seconds off our time over the three races, and we won the 'Best decorated pitch'Read more »




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