New job anyone?

Beekeeping & Apiculture Forum

Help Support Beekeeping & Apiculture Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
a link to some jobclub forum of which I'm not a member tells me nothing
Linked In isn't like that ..it's more about connections and networking between business and professional people. I don't participate but I know a lot of people who do and find it quite useful. But for those who are not subscribers (and it's free if you do):

About the job

This position will fund a beekeeper to maintain the research colonies of honeybees at the John Krebs Field station for the Oxford Bee Lab. The beekeeper will be responsible for requeening, queen rearing, disease and parasite control, swarm prevention and honey production. The person appointed will also liaise regularly with lab personnel to orchestrate experiments, including the provision of adult bees and brood comb for experiments and the creation of minicolonies for testing diets. As a research assistant, the person employed may also engage in laboratory experiments in close collaboration with lab personnel. The person will also occasionally liaise with the public and may also be responsible for building and maintenance of an observation colony. They will also be expected to liaise with the lab's PI to develop future plans for development of bee lab activities in the area of training and teaching of beekeeping and related topics.

Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred.

The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

Department of Biology, The John Krebs Field Station, Wytham, Oxford OX2
 
Linked In isn't like that ..it's more about connections and networking between business and professional people. I don't participate but I know a lot of people who do and find it quite useful. But for those who are not subscribers (and it's free if you do):

About the job

This position will fund a beekeeper to maintain the research colonies of honeybees at the John Krebs Field station for the Oxford Bee Lab. The beekeeper will be responsible for requeening, queen rearing, disease and parasite control, swarm prevention and honey production. The person appointed will also liaise regularly with lab personnel to orchestrate experiments, including the provision of adult bees and brood comb for experiments and the creation of minicolonies for testing diets. As a research assistant, the person employed may also engage in laboratory experiments in close collaboration with lab personnel. The person will also occasionally liaise with the public and may also be responsible for building and maintenance of an observation colony. They will also be expected to liaise with the lab's PI to develop future plans for development of bee lab activities in the area of training and teaching of beekeeping and related topics.

Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred.

The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

Department of Biology, The John Krebs Field Station, Wytham, Oxford OX2
Thankyou Philip,
I forgot it would go via LinkedIn and not be readable for all.
 
Thankyou Philip,
I forgot it would go via LinkedIn and not be readable for all.
Can't think there will be many people with this peculiar skill ...

"Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred."

Perhaps they have someone in mind ...
 
Can't think there will be many people with this peculiar skill ...

"Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred."

Perhaps they have someone in mind ...
It did occur to me JBM but an interesting interview to attend.
At one point in my career I loved going to interviews of jobs I wasn't that interested in just to practise for ones I was. I was offered many more of the ones I had no intention of accepting than the ones I wanted.... lol
 
"Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred."

Perhaps they have someone in mind ...
no way am I moving to Oxford, full of weirdos and 'survivor bees'
 
Linked In isn't like that ..it's more about connections and networking between business and professional people. I don't participate but I know a lot of people who do and find it quite useful. But for those who are not subscribers (and it's free if you do):
I joined many years ago when I was working. Not for me but it was useful for the company to "poach" guys from another company as you can see their experience and approach them.
I'm now listed on there as a Beekeeper (as Jamez F found out :) ) and keep getting approached to apply for jobs as a beekeeper in the middle east. I would guess I've been "head hunted" by a dozen or so recruitment agencies in the last 12 months. :)
 
Last edited:
Linked In isn't like that ..it's more about connections and networking between business and professional people. I don't participate but I know a lot of people who do and find it quite useful.

I used it a fair bit at the start of this year, in the main because I was told that if you're job-hunting in IT you really need to be on it. I found much of it awful, I have to say, and some of the content just made my skin crawl. So many smug/self-congratulatory posts from insincere self-proclaimed "experts" and almost everyone is hugely experienced, even world-leading, at absolutely everything they do. Postings from recruiters are always for "massively exciting/huge opportunity", even if they're actually dull-as-ditchwater, jobs. I was also struck by the number of people who clearly want to build a business doing absolutely anything at all, as long as they can "exit" in a few years time with a large pile of cash.

There is some useful stuff after you've filtered out all the dross, but not even close to as much as Microsoft would like to have you believe.

James
 
Linked In isn't like that ..it's more about connections and networking between business and professional people. I don't participate but I know a lot of people who do and find it quite useful. But for those who are not subscribers (and it's free if you do):

About the job

This position will fund a beekeeper to maintain the research colonies of honeybees at the John Krebs Field station for the Oxford Bee Lab. The beekeeper will be responsible for requeening, queen rearing, disease and parasite control, swarm prevention and honey production. The person appointed will also liaise regularly with lab personnel to orchestrate experiments, including the provision of adult bees and brood comb for experiments and the creation of minicolonies for testing diets. As a research assistant, the person employed may also engage in laboratory experiments in close collaboration with lab personnel. The person will also occasionally liaise with the public and may also be responsible for building and maintenance of an observation colony. They will also be expected to liaise with the lab's PI to develop future plans for development of bee lab activities in the area of training and teaching of beekeeping and related topics.

Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and with liaising with UK Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred.

The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

Department of Biology, The John Krebs Field Station, Wytham, Oxford OX2
They want a bee inspector to apply
 
So many smug/self-congratulatory posts from insincere self-proclaimed "experts" and almost everyone is hugely experienced, even world-leading, at absolutely everything they do.
Agree. I work for one of those huge consultancy firms. They like us using the site to promote what we do, but I can't abide it.
Most posts are people promoting themselves. "I'm really excited to announce.....", "I'm so humbled to tell you...."
Insincere to the point of grossness.

Regards the job; I'd love to work with bees, rather than my current job. I just can't handle the paycut and the location would require a move.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top