Take heart, lab rats. Drugmakers may be eliminating research jobs up and down the East Coast, but Perrigo is desperate to fill openings. The Michigan company, which markets OTC and prescription meds, went so far as to post a video on YouTube showing a group of chemists grooving to a mechanized beat (actually, some work in Perrigo IT and some are actors).
The hope is that some real scientists will apply. "Over the last couple of years, we have been working on initiatives to get the Perrigo name out there," Kim Shriver, Perrig's talent acquisition manager, tells The Grand Rapids Press. "We've been thinking about a different audience." You don't have to know how to dance to get a job, though.
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That's awesome. If only science was this fun 20 or so years ago, I might have stayed in the lab!
Bruce you obviously just weren't in the right labs as this reminds me of Friday Night Happy Hours in some places. Although I can probably understand why they had to use stand-ins for the dancers since most chemists I know where better at generating music than moving to it.
It's an interesting/fun approach and probably appeals/reaches to younger set with likewise majority of jobs being at entry levels which assume is the different audience mentioned.
My university has a degree in Oeneology now. I think I would stay in the lab now. That would make my love of wine acceptable!
In Michigan, if you can still dance you're doing well...