Training
When the screening of the candidates is done, you will bring the top two or three in for an interview. What questions should you ask them? What answers should you be looking for? How will you know which one to hire? Whether you work for a large company with a Human Resources department and volumes of procedures or are a small business owner with a few employees, the questions you want to ask are the same.
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Laboratories are not the same as manufacturing environments. But Lean can and should be applied to labs.
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This months Dig Deeper video features Jeffrey Tobe, author of the feature article Coloring Outside the Lines.
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Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) will host an informational webcast on February 24, 2010 on the topic of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
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In 2010 Micromeritics will begin offering a series of webinars that will highlight applications, theory, and instrumentation for a variety of materials characterization techniques.
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Many laboratory professionals have difficulty in writing reports. The process often takes longer than it should with the result being a poorly written report. This problem are often most severe for lab professionals with English being their second la
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In a new edition of the popular laboratory manual Live Cell Imaging, the latest approaches join a large collection of established techniques--producing the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of methods for imaging live cells and organisms currently available.
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Battelle will work collaboratively with the public-private partnership announced by the White House to strengthen the nations competitiveness through increasing the scale and scope of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
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When interviewing a job candidate, do you adhere strictly to a grading scale or do you sometimes modify the job requirements based on the unique qualifications of the candidate?
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The Rutgers Mini-MBA: BioPharma Innovation brings Rutgers thought-leaders and senior industry executives into the classroom in an intensive training program focused on the strategic, regulatory, and management issues confronting the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. This innovative executive development opportunity provides a comprehensive business foundation...
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In our June Leadership & Staffing article, author Allison Champion describes her lab's cross-training program in which technicians develop capabilities in more than one area and adjust their focus as needed to alleviate workflow bottlenecks. In th
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We spend too much of our day trying to cram more into it. We adopted the computer term multi-tasking and tried to apply it to our own daily activities as another step in our quest to get more done. The problem is that multi-tasking doesn't work.
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