Motivate and inspire. The two words are often used interchangeably in biotech, echoed perpetually in the minds of any leader trying to spearhead the charge. However, view the two as the same and you are missing a critical component in your evolution as a senior...
Finding candidates with the best knowledge, experience, values, and skill set to fill essential company roles can be challenging. Filling these roles is vital and it means you need to be spending the time and money to identify the best individual for the position. This...
Top 10 US BioPharma Clusters 10. Seattle By recovering from the loss of Amgen in 2014, Seattle’s biopharma industry has proven itself adaptive. So, it’s fitting that one of the region’s brightest successes is named Adaptive Biotechnologies: The personalized diagnostics and therapeutics developer started 2019 with an...
Would you rather hire someone based on a listed skill set or delivered past results? To answer this question, we must look at traditional job descriptions vs. performance profiles. The benefits of hiring based on a performance focused profile are immense. If we conduct a...
Celgene, the compensation leader, pays its typical worker more than $263,000 By Patrick Thomas via WSJ May 9, 2019 9:32 a.m. ET In biotechnology, the rank and file are well-to-do. Many of the highest-paying employers in the health-care sector—and the entire S&P 500—were biotech companies, according to an analysis...
Why is it so difficult to hire in the biotech industry in 2018? Let's start with looking at the access to capital in the industry right now. These are just a small sample of capital related headlines that I've pulled since January 2018. Big Pharma roared...
8 Facts You Need to Know About Massachusetts Bill S.983 1. Bars employers from asking about applicants’ salaries before offering them a job 2. The new law will require hiring managers to state a compensation figure upfront 3. Will go into effect in July 2018 4. Companies will not...
Michael Barros Sr. Partner, Prestige Scientific “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” ~Abigail Adams Oct 2, 2015 The Prestige Scientific team attends this years NAPS conference demonstrating our belief that we must always strive to grow by learning...
*** BACKSTORY: While conducting a Senior Director Medical Writing search for a client, a very respected and longtime contact of ours emailed that they would be interested, if it was above Senior Director. I automatically responded that I'll ask my client about Executive Director. Their...
Over 15 years of search, I've heard a lot of illegal questions from both clients and candidates. Many times, there are some people that have been promoted into very significant roles within organizations, but have not gone through formal interview training and they are not...