Blogs

LiCa Scientific has seen a significant increase in the registrations, as well as interviews at our clients. Our June interviews were at a very high level, the busiest June for a number of years. This level of activitiy is leading to a LOT of conve...

0-4 Minutes - Introductions 5-9 Minutes - Communication and how it works 9-14 Minutes - Your overall impact and how to manage it 15-23 Minutes - How to tell a story / keep answers relatable 24-25 Minutes - Interview questions / breakdown 25-30 Min...

As my clients progress their social distancing compliant interviewing, we are seeing more and more phone based interviews. I thought I’d focus on Phone Interviewing as opposed to Video Interviewing as this is a skill area you can train yourself in...

Online job application tips during COVID As we keep saying, these are strange times. And a lot is going on that’s more serious than the state of the recruitment market. However, if you’re on the market then I understand at the moment the job marke...

Anyone requiring temporary scientific staff for COVID-19 related scientific roles, or hiring for permanent staff working the problem. We will work on a 'not for profit' basis for you in finding scientists. We have the in-house infrastructure to ra...

Thank you again to Manchester Metropolitan University for inviting us to the Meet the Employers event last Wednesday. I think this was our fifth year of doing this and every year I’m delighted with how professional and switched-onto the key ideas ...

Underpinning LiCa Scientific Ltd, is an intention that we have as much social impact as we can. This manifests itself in many ways, OK mainly two, (1) giving to good causes especially local ones and (2) we give our time to help people gain access ...

This week we had the pleasure of presenting to the Students at Manchester Metropolitan University, one of the UK’s top Universities for Science and it was a privilege to be there. We wanted to present away from the CV writing / interviewing side o...

This week we had the pleasure of attending Biosciences events at both Manchester Metropolitan University AND the University of Central Lancashire. We engaged with hundreds of students at various stages of their academic studies and once again foun...

Manchester Met University Blog II We headed to Manchester Metropolitan University’s famous Connections Café this week. It’s one of the best events for students I see, if you’ve never been the format is 15 or so companies arrive, and we each have a...