BioCurrents contains our last 10 news items including our BioTalent HR Pulse newsletter, research, reports, press releases. For older items please see each section for archives.
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BioTalent Canada is pleased to announce Bob Ingratta, President Fast Strategies Inc. (Vancouver, BC) as the new Chair of BioTalent Canada and would like to thank John McMillan, Past-Chair, for his work and commitment as Chair over the past two years.
BioTalent Canada would also like to welcome new Board members Steven Klein, Director of Business Development Labopharm (Montreal, QC) and Paul Braconnier, President and CEO Globe IQ Inc. (Edmonton, AB). We are looking forward to working with you.
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BioSkills Recognition Program Pilot now open across Canada
Have your skills recognized - enrol in the BioSkills Recognition Program today!
Participating in the BioSkills Recognition Program means:
As a new program from BioTalent Canada, the country’s leading source for human resource information and biotechnology skills development, the BioSkills Recognition Program is the industry’s seal of approval. It recognizes individuals as BioReadyTM, meaning they are ready to provide a valuable contribution to the bio-economy workforce. It does not guarantee a job within the Canadian bio-economy.
Being BioReady
Being BioReady tells industry that you have received expert recognition from BioTalent Canada’s industry partners and participants as an individual who has demonstrated the required competencies for a specific job function within the Canadian bio-economy. BioTalent Canada considers a competency to be a measurable skill or set of skills required to perform a specific function in the bio-economy work environment.
As a prestigious seal of recognition from the biotechnology industry, the BioSkills Recognition Program demonstrates to industry that you are BioReady; you have the required skills to competently function in the Canadian bio-economy workforce.
To enrol in the program, you must create a BioTalent ePortfolio to document your competencies, credentials and acquired skills through work and other experiences. During the BioSkills Recognition Program Pilot (summer 2010 - summer 2011), creating and storing your BioTalent ePortfolio will be free.
Enrol and create your BioTalent ePortfolio today for free!
of Canada's Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
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New Bio-economy workplace integration tools coming
Through our research in the Recognizing talent report, several imperatives for harnessing the talents of internationally educated professionals (IEPs) were identified:
1. Canadian experience;
2. English competency and cultural integration into the biotechnology business environment;
3. Practical recognition of skills and confirmation of experience; and
4. An industry hub to facilitate links between employers and prospective employees.
BioTalent Canada has been strategically addressing these issues through the BioTalent HR ToolKit, Bio-economy Skills Profiles, The PetriDish, online Readiness Modules, BioSynergy, BioSkills Recognition Program, BioSkills Match and other programs.
Now BioTalent Canada is pleased to announce the next step - the Integration Tools for Internationally Educated Professionals project. Through this project, online tools will be created for employers and IEPs to show them how and where integration can begin, plus provide specific bio-economy language instruction. In addition, these new tools will connect with existing resources to provide employers and IEPs with a comprehensive picture of resources available to them. Stay tuned for more details.
of Canada's Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
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Who’s BioReady? Have your say.
Give your seal of approval: join our CompetencyCommittee and help shape the future of the bio-economy.
BioTalent Canada’s BioSkills Recognition Program addresses skills shortages by identifying people who are ready to join Canada’s bio-economy workforce. We need industry experts like you to help us recognize individuals’ skills and experience in the context of real-world biotechnology sector requirements.
What’s in it for you?
Read more about what the BioSkills Recognition Program means for:
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Your industry. Your needs. Your input.
We need biotechnology leaders like you to validate 17 new skills profiles that we’ve drafted with industry—making sure they accurately reflect real-world requirements.
Take part in our focus groups and: 
Focus Group dates
During these one day focus groups we will discuss and gather industry feedback on the draft profiles created from the working groups.
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Pre-Clinical/Clinical or Field Trials Occupations: (Ottawa)
Scientific Writer - Nov. 15, Ottawa
Pharmacologist - Nov. 22, Ottawa
Biostatistician - Nov. 23, Ottawa
Development Project Manager - Nov. 24, Ottawa
Animal Care Technician - Nov. 25, Ottawa
For any questions or to participate, please contact profiles@biotalent.ca.
Read more on how the Bio-economy Skills Profiles can help you or download the existing profiles.
Online Validation - Fall 2010
If you are unable to attend a focus group and would still like to contribute, you can participate via our online validation process. Please click the links below to access the online surveys. For the other occupations, please stay tuned for more details.
Contract Manufacturing Project Manager
Clinical Research Data Manager
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This program is funded by the Government of Canada's Sector Council Program and the Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
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We make it easier - BioTalent Canada Career Focus Wage Subsidy Program
The BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program makes it easier for employers to hire the talent they need—and for job seekers to gain the work experience they require—by subsidizing the salary of a recent graduate to a maximum of $10,634 for up to 12 months.
Maximum advantage - The Career Focus Program gives employers the freedom to:
Find out how the Career Focus Program can help you meet your business goals: www.biotalent.ca/wagesubsidies.
Access opportunity - The BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program helps graduates:
Learn more about how the BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program can help you start your career: www.biotalent.ca/firstbiojob.
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Looking to get that special project off your to-do list? Get a head start.
Every organization has them—important projects that, because of competing priorities, never make it off the to-do list. But they have to get done.
BioTalent Canada’s BioTalent HeadStart program can help by providing an eager, motivated post-secondary student to carry out your specific assignment—maybe a web design student who can finish your company site, or a business student to research potential customers. These talented young learners donate their time in exchange for real-world work experience in the biotechnology sector.
What’s in it for you?
Read more about what BioTalent HeadStart means for employers at www.biotalent.ca/getaprojectdone.
Looking to get experience in a sector that’s going places? Get a head start.
If you want to build up your resume with real-world work experience in a fast-growing
sector of the economy, check out the BioTalent HeadStart program.
Biotechnology companies across the country are hungry for support from talented students
in the sciences as well as other important areas such as communications, business and
web development.
The BioTalent HeadStart program lets you donate your time to a specific project at a Canadian
biotechnology firm. Lend your skills. Gain experience. Get a head start on your career.
What’s in it for you?
• Get valuable hands-on experience
• Discover new career opportunities
• See how your skills apply to the bio-economy
• Make connections that could help your careerRead more about what BioTalent HeadStart means for students, educators and mentors at www.biotalent.ca/getaheadstart
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Congratulations to the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2010 Winners
Research by a 14-year-old science prodigy from Saskatoon into the molecular fingerprint of a disease that has devastated lentil crops in Canada, Asia and Africa has earned the top national prize of the 2010 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC).
Grade 9 student, Rui Song at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, the youngest-ever national finalist in the event’s 17-year history, “astonished” nine judges at Canada’s National Research Council with her search for an early way to tell apart two strains of a crop-killing fungus, one strain of which can wipe out half a farmer’s lentil harvest if left unrecognized and untreated.
Brian Krug, a Grade 11 student at John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute, Guelph, won the 2nd place prize for his project that found a green tea extract offered a potential new treatment for ovarian cancer.
First and second place winners recieved $5,000 and $4,000 respectively.
3rd place ($3,000): Katherine Taneille Johnson, 17, a Grade 12 student at North Peace Secondary School in tiny Fort St. John, for a project deciphering DNA mutations that may lie behind an early aging disease.
4th place ($2,000): Alexandre Lemieux, 16, of Externat Saint-Jean-Eudes, and Reda Bensaidane, 16, École Secondaire Les Compagnons-de-Cartier, Ste-Foy QB, for a project showing how a coffee extract offers a potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease.
5th place ($1,000): Binudith Warnakulasooriya, 17, a Grade 12 student from Fort Richmond Collegiate, Winnipeg, whose project unlocked the DNA of flaxseed to create potential for healthier food. It is Binudith’s second consecutive year as a national SABC prizewinner.
A special prize ($1,000), awarded for the project with the greatest commercial potential, was won by 16-year-old Grade 10 student Emma Graham of Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, who used Indian dill oil to create a more environmentally-friendly insecticide to combat potato beetles.
Congratulations to all the past and present students who participated in the SABC - you did great work! Also, a special congratulations to Rebecca Hollett, SABC Newfoundland and Labrador 2009 regional winner, who received first place and $1000 in the province's Junior Achievement 2010 competition for her Juniper Juice commercialization plan also her 2009 SABC project. "SABC was a great experience for me. I really enjoyed the science research and participating in SABC gave me confidence in my communication skills - which I know I will need in my career," said Rebecca. "Taking my project through Junior Achievement showed me even more about the importance of developing commercialization skills. Before SABC I wasn't sure about my future career but now I have a plan!" Rebecca is in her last year of high school and is planning on studying science and continuing her Juniper Juice research at university - enjoy and good luck with your research Rebecca.
We look to hearing more of these stories and about how the SABC has impacted those involved through our 2010 tracking study this summer. We will be asking past participants and mentors about their SABC experiences. Watch for our email about the survey.
Thank you to the national and regional supporters, regional coordinating organizations and coordinators, teachers, mentors, judges, volunteers and parents whose contributions have made the SABC such a success - it all shows what the students have accomplished and their enthusiasm in their work.
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BioSynergy - Sharpen your team interactions
For new graduates, internationally educated professionals (IEPs) and other job seekers, integrating into a Canadian biotechnology work environment can involve overcoming barriers. Through the “Skills Development at Work” Project, BioTalent Canada has created the BioSynergy program to assist with this integration into the workplace.
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A career in Canada’s biotechnology sector can be exciting and rewarding. Before working in the Canadian bio-economy it is important to gauge if you are ready.
To succeed, you need the right skills. BioTalent Canada’s online Readiness Modules help you gauge certain required skills to determine your readiness to work in a typical Canadian biotechnology environment.
Through practical scenarios, you will determine your skills readiness and gain a better understanding of where you need to strengthen your skills and improve your prospects for success – before entering the biotechnology workforce.
Registering for these Readiness Modules is fast and easy via our online and secure registration system!
Register today at www.biotalent.ca/areyouready
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Advance Your Talent - 2010 Course Calendar - Register Now!
Registering for BioTalent Canada courses is fast and easy via our online, secure registration system!
Making Sense of Biotechnology course
Know all there is to know about Canada’s bio-economy and its revolutionary impact on many sectors.
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Cost: $ 695.00 (CDN) + applicable taxes
Custom In-house Training Option
BioTalent Canada's Making Sense of Biotechnology course can also be delivered at your organization. This offers you significant discounts and gives you the benefit of learning with your colleagues and directly from experts while staying on-site. A custom in-house course can be tailored to your organization's specific technology and will maintain your confidentiality. In-house training sessions can be organized at your next meeting or when most convenient for you. For more information on in-house training options please contact skills@biotalent.ca.
Good Clinical Practices (GCP) online course
Optimize your biotechnology company’s R&D efforts. Take this online course to be sure your practices are meeting Research Ethics Board guidelines.
Dates: Sept. 13, 2010 - Jan. 12, 2011
Cost: Over 45 hours of learning for $999.00 CDN + applicable taxes
Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) online course
Strengthen your lab practices by expanding your knowledge of FDA regulations and guidelines. This online introductory course will extensively explore the regulations and best practices.
Dates: Sept. 13, 2010 - Jan. 12, 2011
Cost: Over 45 hours of learning for $999.00 CDN + applicable taxes
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) online course
Good Manufacturing Practices are the key to success in the biotechnology industry. Get ahead of the competition and meet ever-increasing demand with this GMP regulations online course.
Dates: Sept. 13, 2010 - Jan. 12, 2011
Cost: Over 45 hours of learning for $999.00 CDN + applicable taxes
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Segmenting the Data - Regional labour market information on biotechnology in Canada (9/25/2008)
Splicing the Data - The critical role of human resources in Canada's bio-economy - A labour market report (6/28/2008)
Bridging the divide - Creating opportunities for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada to enter the bio-economy (5/13/2008)
Experience Biotechnology - The Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge Developing talent for the future (5/7/2008)
Mapping the Sequence - A labour-market look at Canada's bio-economy (5/22/2007)
Biotechnology Job Titles (5/22/2007)
These and more all available for download from the BioCurrents section of www.biotalent.ca/reports.
For future BioTalent HR Pulse topic suggestions, comments and feedback please write to us at hrpulse@biotalent.ca.
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