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Kick start your career in pharmacy or the pharmaceutical sciences

The BPC and The Pharmaceutical Journal are delighted to bring you the BPC-PJ Careers Forum which will run for all four days of BPC – from 6 to 9 of September, and will take place at Manchester Central in the Exchange exhibition hall. As you may be aware, BPC this year will feature two new conferences practice@BPC on Sunday and Monday and science@BPC on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Organisations from the retail pharmacy sector and the NHS will be interviewing, presenting and exhibiting on Sunday and Monday and those organizations from the pharmaceutical science sector will be interviewing, presenting and exhibiting on the Monday through to Wednesday lunchtime.

The BPC-PJ Careers Forum will demonstrate to pharmacy students, pre-registration trainees and fully qualified pharmacists the range of opportunities available in the rapidly evolving community and hospital pharmacy sectors.

Leading players
The pharmaceutical industry also recruits significant numbers pharmaceutical scientists and pharmacists; students and graduates attending the BPC-PJ Careers Forum will be able to network with leading players from this vibrant and hugely important sector including GlaxoSmithKline, our Platinum Sponsor.

A major opportunity for scientist students of all disciplines
A key aim of the BPC-PJ Careers Forum will be to demonstrate to all science students and scientists - particularly those involved in the life sciences, medicine, chemistry and chemical engineering, mathematics, physics and information technology - just how many excellent careers opportunities exist in pharmaceutical research and development.

Free entry to the BPC-PJ Careers Forum
Entry to the BPC-PJ Careers Forum is free of charge and also offers access to the BPC 2009 exhibition.
The BPC-PJ Careers Forum takes place in the Exchange exhibition hall at Manchester Central and the address is:

Manchester Central
M2 3GX
Tel: 08717030309

For further location and travel details please visit: www.manchestercentral.co.uk

How to attend the BPC-PJ Careers Forum
If you simply wish to attend the Careers Forum without applying for interview, email Chris Hanney at channey@health-links.co.uk with your FULL contact details.

How to register your interest in being interviewed at the BPC-PJ Careers Forum
If you wish to be considered for interview at the BPC-PJ Careers Forum, please download the registration form, complete and email back to Chris Hanney at channey@health-links.co.uk , along with an up-to-date copy of your CV in WORD FORMAT ONLY, please (no docx)!

Your details will then be circulated to all the companies taking part in the BPC-PJ Careers Forum, and we will arrange interviews at mutually convenient times, should those companies wish to see you.

To attend the BPC-PJ Careers Forum you must pre-register and bring along photo ID on the day.

We look forward to welcoming you to the BPC-PJ Careers Forum!

Why exhibit or sponsor at the BPC-PJ Careers Forum?

In the first three years of the Careers Forum at BPC, our sponsors have interviewed over 100 very high quality candidates and made several job offers each year. Don’t miss out on this unique and highly cost effective opportunity of meeting some of the best qualified and highly motivated scientists and young pharmacists in the UK – and beyond. This year you can choose to align your Careers Forum activities either with practice@BPC or science@BPC. If you wish have a presence for the whole 4 days of BPC, that option is also available.  For a complete description of the packages available to BPC-PJ Careers Forum 2009 exhibitors and sponsors please click here.

The exhibition hall will feature the following facilities to support the BPC-PJ Careers Forum:

	2 seminar rooms with full AV capability and seating up to 30 people at a time in which companies can profile themselves and discuss the range of career opportunities on offer.
	Private 3m x 2m booths for interviewing potential candidates.
	Computer terminals on which interested delegates can explore job opportunities offered by participating companies in greater depth and accessing the job opportunities posted on the www.bpc2009.org website.
	Networking areas in which to sit down and discuss opportunities informally with interested delegates over a cup of coffee.
	Shell scheme stands and space-only of plots various sizes from which companies can promote job opportunities to all exhibition attendees.
	Poster boards for smaller organisations to promote careers opportunities.

For companies wishing to take part in the BPC-PJ Careers Forum the cost of exhibiting is exactly the same as for other BPC exhibitors – i.e. £255 + VAT for Sunday & Monday or Tuesday & Wednesday or £295 +VAT per square metre for Sunday – Wednesday or Monday – Wednesday.

How does my company get to interview candidates at the BPC-PJ Careers Forum?
To receive CVs and to have pre-arranged interviews at BPC 2009 organised on your behalf, you will need to take out one of the BPC-PJ Careers Forum sponsorship packages. For a complete description of the packages available to BPC-PJ Careers Forum 2009 exhibitors and sponsors please click here. To see the full range of all sponsorship and exhibition options available at practice@BPC and science@BPC click here.

Who do I contact?
If you are interested in the BPC-PJ Careers Forum as a sponsor or exhibitor, or simply exhibiting your organisation’s developments to the largest gathering of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists in the calendar then email Chris Hanney at channey@health-links.co.uk for further information, or call him on + 44(0) 121 248 3399