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A recent graduate can have a tough time finding their first job and getting their career on track.

When I finished university, I found it difficult to find my first job. Through university I’d worked

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

in a factory so I didn’t have any office experience that I could point to that would indicate to a potential employer that I could do everything I said I could do.

I kept thinking that even though I w

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

Examples of combination products may in

s a recent graduate with no relevant experience, if only I could somehow convince potential employers what I was capable of, I would prove my capabilities to them.

How can you convince an employer wha

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

you are capable of when you seem to have no experience?

In other words, how can you get experience when no one will give you any experience?

When you are a recent college graduate looking for your f

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

rst job, it can be a difficult time to get your foot in the door. Here are some suggestions to get your job search rolling:

1. Start job searching early.

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

Combination pro

school ends to start your job search. When I was in university, some employers began interviewing and hiring right after the school year started. So some of my classmates who weren’t graduating until A

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

ril, had a job offer in hand before Christmas. No need to rush around looking for a job the next summer if you can get hired the previous year, right?

2. Ensure that your resume highlights any rele

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

vant skills that you honed during college and that you demonstrated during your time in school. Include evidence of presentation skills, problem-solving skills, teamwork skills and other relevant s

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

ills that most employers would find useful that people often leave out from their resume.

3. Look for networking opportunities that your college offers. Take advantage of all career fairs and c

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

mpus visits by employers whether they are of interest to you or not. The college recruiters that are sent to your campus are often graduates of your school and might have some advice that helps you get

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

your foot in the door with their company. At a minimum, employer campus visits are great networking opportunities.

4. Ensure you utilize at least several job search options and ensure you do each o

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

Following aspects would a

them well. Other than attending career fairs as mentioned above, use other networking methods, search Internet job boards, search the career section on websites of companies you’d like to work for

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

search college job boards and contact employers directly that you’d like to work for regardless of whether they are advertising a suitable opening or not. At the beginning of your career, you really d

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

need to get your name out there to a certain extent, especially if you have no relevant experience yet.

5. Consider working for free for a limited time. I’ve seen some recent graduates work fo

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

r a company for a period of time (ie. 2-4 weeks) for free to prove to the company what they are capable of. The recent graduate offers their services to a company for free for a period of time if they

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

an’t convince the company of their skills up front. If you have the financial means to work and not get paid for perhaps one month, you might try this option. When you are recent graduate, you

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ight not get a lot of help from professional recruiters. As a recruiter, I find that companies tend to fill entry-level jobs themselves and don’t always pay recruiters to find recent graduates like you

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

self.

Having said that, when I graduated from university, I managed to luck out by dropping into a recruiter’s office unannounced and speaking with a recruiter who knew an employer who was looking for

.

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

a recent graduate like myself. As a favor to the employer the recruiter passed my resume onto them. I got an entry level job with the company and worked there fulltime for 3 years.

If you are able to

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ind a recruiter who is willing to help a recent graduate like yourself, it could be a great way to supplement your own job search if you have them keeping their eyes open for a suitable opening for you

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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