A Sheffield recruitment consultant who specialises in placing scientists within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries is the top student in the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s Diploma in Recruitment Practice (DipRP) examination.

Philippa Robertson (pictured) from CK Science, a specialist scientific and engineering recruitment consultancy, came top in the examinations which were sat by 208 students across the UK.

Robertson says: “I am so pleased that my hard work studying and support from my colleagues has paid off.”

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