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When you interview someone for a job you already know their qualifications and work experience from reading their resume.

These might need some clarification and expansion, but you have the basic facts.

What you don’t have is a rea

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

l understanding of the personality of the applicant.

Would it be beneficial to you, the employer to be able to see and understand not only the negatives but also the positives in your job applicants without depending upon answers to qu

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

Examples of combination products may in

stions?

It can be done, easily, quickly and with simple training.

As you progress through the interview, you do get to know each other better, quite naturally, through give and take of conversation, and through the candidate relating pa

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

t experiences.

However, the old questions that used to “trick” candidates into “revealing” themselves are working less and less.

“What is your greatest weakness?” is one of them. “Why should I hire you?” is another.

These questions

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

if delivered to an unsuspecting interviewee could result in very open answers, some of which might reveal more than the candidate intended.

But more and more job seekers are taking courses and reading books on how to interview well.

I

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

Combination pro

ave taught interview skills for many years, and know the difference in the answers of an “unschooled” interviewee and those of a “graduate” are very different. After a study of interview skills the students know how to field these answers and

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

ive the answers the employer wants to hear within, hopefully, the bounds of honesty.

There are many personality tests which offer in depth profiles of candidates, and some of them are very good, very useful and very accurate.

But they take ti

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

me and tend to be expensive.

However, there is one personality test that you can use yourself during the interview, which has no per-use fee.

It allows you to SEE the candidate’s greatest weakness without asking them that question then yo

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

can question them further based on their answer.

Example: You can SEE that this candidate is liable to “bend the truth” on occasion, or perhaps just downright lie whenever it seems useful to do.

Or, you can SEE that this is an impatient

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

individual with a distinct lack of attention to detail, so you can ask questions about times when s/he was required to either be extremely patient or pay a great deal of attention to detail, then follow through depending upon the answers.

This

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

can be done very easily through a basic understanding of Handwriting Analysis.

In North America this may seem a somewhat off-the-wall, revolutionary method of employee assessment.

But in Europe over 90% or employers use thi

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

Following aspects would a

tool already.

In Israel there is a 1 year wait for graphological services due to the overriding popularity of this method of personality assessment.

There is no such problem in North America, and you can send off writing to a graphologis

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

and receive in return a detailed report of the candidate’s writing without much delay.

But you can also, without having to spend years learning the skill, look at the candidate’s writing yourself and identify what you want to kno

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

about.

No personality trait can be taken totally in isolation, as all parts of the personality affect all others, but you can still identify individual traits.

Try it yourself.

Attention to detail was mentioned previously. It

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

is very easy to identify in writing , and like many handwriting traits, it has been the source of common sayings in English.

“Make sure all your “i”s are dotted and your “t”s crossed” is a phrase many will have heard, and that is exact

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

y what you are looking for when you want to identify attention to detail.

Absence of dots on “i”s and cross-bars on “t”s is an indication of lack of attention to detail. Occasional lapses means that although most of the time attentio

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

will be paid to the little things, sometimes they will be neglected, either deliberately because these ones are not considered important enough, or accidentally.

So now you have this information, you can look at any writing and tell the a

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

ount of attention to detail that writer will pay. It really is as simple as that.

Each trait has a clear stroke or set of strokes to indicate it and each stroke always means the same thing whenever it appears, so it’s just a case of ident

.

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

fying it, then seeing how often it appears compared with how often it could appear in that particular sample of writing.

The strength of each trait is determined on a simple percentage ratio.

Will your writer just occasionally miss

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

etails, frequently, or most of the time? It’s easy to tell now you know what to look for.

So as you work to make the best hires, consider including handwriting analysis in your “box of tools” and hire the “write” person the first time.

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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