Book Review-Hardknocks for the GreenHorn
Anup Soans, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into the Pharma sales scenario through his new book “Hardknocks for the GreenHorn”. The book provides practical tips, techniques, and tricks to succeed in the highly competitive Pharma market place. In my opinion this book should be a ‘must read’ for lifescience and pharma professionals with 0 to 5years experience. I would even say that, all the final year students of lifesciences stream, who aspire to enter pharma industry should read this book to understand how the domestic formulation industry works. Read more »
How to find the Pharma or Lifescience job you love the most-II
One of my friend who read the previous post called up to say this; “Perhaps its time we should discuss careers in pharma and lifesciences industry more broadly so that these young fresh grads are aware of many more career paths in areas like medical/technical writing, data analysis, biostatistics, business analysis, export-import, supply chain etc”
Thats a nice feedback. If you think seriously,if the hiring organisations could go out to these colleges and make presentations on the various functional roles in which a fresher could make a beginning, probably that may create a lot of excitement and fun about the job roles.
Another point that may be worth sharing with freshers is the key individual traits that are essential pre-requisite for succeding in a particular job role. This can happen if the college/institution facilitates discussions/interactions between the students and industry professionals across different functional roles.
How to find the Pharma or Lifescience job you love the most?
Since 2007 I would have personally counselled more than 50 lifescience graduates armed with additional courses in Clinical research on the strategy they need to adopt for their first ever job search. In the last few years “Clinical Research” or “CRO” has been two very glamourous words and also considered as the best employment destination for most of the Pharmacy/Biotech/Lifescience graduates. Something lifescience folks feel proud about working for, especially looking at their engineering counterparts who work in IT Industry.
Without doubt Clinical/Contract research is a big industry today and it is all set to grow further. According to Biostpectrum magazine there are a few hundred small and large biotech and CRO firms operating out of Read more »
Kathirvel N
I am an independent consultant and run a healthcare business based in Chennai, India. Pharmacareers.in is an industry blog and a job-board. Apart from providing interesting content which you might find useful in your career and daily life, this site will serve as a platform for sharing, exchanging views/ideas, and also help Employers and Job Seekers to fulfill their people/career needs. Its my pleasure to have you as a guest.
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