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Most job search approaches are Ready! Fire! Aim!

Don't do it. Do your company research FIRST.

What happens in the real job search world is that most job searchers in the interest

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

of generating a lot of search "activity" will throw a lot of resumes against the wall and see what sticks. Knowing that job search is a numbers game, the thinking is that a certa

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

in percentage will fall your way, so why not stack the deck up front and follow up with those that "stick"?

Here are two big problems with that thinking:

1. Having not done the

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

basic research beforehand, should a call come through for an initial phone screen, you are caught dead in the water if you don't even have any basic knowledge about either the com

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

any or the job opportunity. Not only do you look foolish, you're now toast. You've just been ruled out of contention after a 5-minute phone call and your resume has just been thr

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

own on the reject pile as the interviewer moves on to the next candidate to call.

2. Your resume is an application for working at this company. If you haven't put any forethought

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

into the reality of this possibility, when are you planning to do so? Waiting until after you have interviewed for this position could put you in a more emotionally vulnerable st

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

te. Feeling more desperate to make some change now, you tend to overlook certain negatives that creep up once you get caught up in the excitement of the interview process and the

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

possibilities of change. Here's an example from my own career: Many years ago I was working for a large pharmaceutical company and desired a change to a more dynamic company. Af

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ter a few months of being "available", I had an opportunity to work for a company I knew little about. I interviewed and let myself get caught up in the excitement and ignored the

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

nagging doubts that told me the job responsibilities were not right. I accepted the job offer, and spent most of the next 11 months hating my new job. It was a great company, jus

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

t a bad fit with my personality. I knew this AFTER I started interviewing, but I found it hard to say no. If I had done my research ahead of time, I never would have considered th

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

is opportunity.

Lesson: Research BEFORE you leap when you're calm and rational and can focus your time and energy on those specific companies and opportunities where you'll feel

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

more of a fit.

You should answer these basic questions:

How large is the company?

What products/services do they offer?

Who are their competitors?

Where do they rank in their m

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

rket?

What is their financial situation?

The advantages of knowing this information up front puts you in a power position when you DO receive a call from an employer. You're now

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

in a position to talk intelligently about the company, their opportunity, their products, and use this information to generate a knowledgeable conversation with your caller. This

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

signifies interest and gets you to the next stage: a more in-depth phone screen or a face-to-face interview.

Here are some resources to get this information:

Corporate Websites

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

(see also their Press Release section).

Hoovers™, Thomasnet™.

The Reference Section of your local public library.

Standard & Poors®.

The Business Journal, local trade or busines

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

s papers (see your library).

Talk with people (social software, network).

Be current on a company before you even send your resume. Find out earlier rather than later whether yo

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

u would actually like to work for a particular company. It can make all the difference if you do the legwork up front rather than leaving it to chance late in the interview stage

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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