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What it’s like to be in business

01 Apr 2001

Bob Claridge, who has spent over 15 years working for a variety of physics-based companies, explains what skills you require to succeed as a physicist in the hard-nosed world of business.

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Bob Claridge is in the Sales Department at Cryogenic Ltd, Acton, London, UK, e-mail bob@cryogenic.co.uk. He has worked in sales for a series of physics-based companies since 1985, having spent the previous seven years as a research physicist.
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