This year, 2008, has been difficult for many companies in many sectors. The economic tide has been sweeping negatively across many of the world’s markets and causing business confidence to wane. The life science markets have not been immune and the impact has been palpable in many corners of the sector.

The biotech industry has come under increased pressure as the climate for early stage ventures has become even more challenging. Toxicity in the finance markets has made fundraising through venture capital, private equity and structured debt-financing extremely difficult. A lack of support for listed biotech stocks have led to incredibly low volumes of share trading on many of Europe’s exchanges, meaning the IPO and exit opportunities for investors are heavily restricted. Merger and acquisition activities have continued unabated and significant deals can be seen between biotech and large-pharma, often at premium values over current market capitalisation, further fuelling the belief that exits are currently best achieved via these trade-sale routes.

Vision 2k+ Inc. is a 9-year-old Medical BPO firm having offices in Hyderabad and Warangal, India. They are the sister concerns of Vision Infonet Inc, Naperville, IL USA. Vision 2K is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified company.

In the process of continuous expansion program, they are offering free training to candidates in Medical Transcription and Medical Billing, who will be employed by the firm after successful completion of training.

Prerequisites: Academic: The candidate should be a graduate. Good listening skills and good command over English language is required. Minimum typing sills and basic computer knowledge is a must.

In these challenging times how can HR step forward and add strategic business value around the Board Room table?

The one constant in all business organisations is change – and much of it currently is strategic. It may be identifying and implementing cost savings, a merger or acquisition project, turning around a failing business unit, exploiting new markets or other customer related projects. Whilst this all can make good business sense it will involve much time and effort to move such change related projects forward quickly and effectively. Often the HR function is only expected to contribute operationally with people related issues arising from such strategic projects, such as redundancy or re-training.

Most Executive CVs could be better set out and presented, and in some cases, significantly so. Although there is no unique method of creating and presenting your CV that propels the candidate to the top of the “must interview heap”, there are several ways that most CVs could be strengthened.

This article highlights three key areas of the Executive CV which from experience could be improved significantly. We also suggest steps you can take towards creating a powerful and interview winning CV.