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Many so-called experts predicted that help wanted ads would become obsolete as the Internet grew in popularity. In reality, help wanted ads are still going strong and remain one of the most important job search steps for jobs at the mid-management level and below.

Case in poin

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

t: Not only am I a hiring manager, but I was a job seeker myself a few years ago. In fact, I lost my job twice in four months. Both times, I found a new job in a few weeks and both times I found my new job through the newspaper classifieds. And we're talking here about mid-mana

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

Examples of combination products may in

ement jobs in the $75,000 - $90,000 range.

For the more rank-and-file positions, classified help wanted ads will be even more productive.

Why Help Wanted Ads are Still Used

Newspaper classified ads are used for a variety of reasons, but the bottom line is that for mid-l

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

vel positions and below, they work. It's not uncommon for me to receive a couple of hundred applications when I advertise an opening in the major newspaper for my area.

While you won't see many Vice-President and above positions in the want ads, you will see most mainst

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

ream positions advertised. There are several reasons for this:

* They have been used for decades and everyone knows how to look at them.

* They are relatively inexpensive for the employer.

* Almost all newspapers of any size now have their help wanted ads online as well as on

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

Combination pro

paper. It's the best of both worlds.

* Help wanted ads are local. The employer knows that most job seekers will be local. As a hiring manager, I'm more likely to interview local candidates because there are no transportation expenses for the interview and no relocation expenses

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

if I hire. Also, local candidates are usually able to start quicker.

* It's simply easier and more comfortable to pick up the newspaper and quickly scan the employment ads. Ironically, it's actually faster to scan a newspaper page full of want ads than it it to page through m

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

any screens to get the same information online.

Here's the Best Way to Use the Help Wanted Ads

For almost all newspapers, you can now find the want ads printed the traditional way on paper, as well as posted electronically on the newspaper web site.

Help Wanted Ad

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

on Paper

The instructions for searching the paper want ads are very simple: pick up the newspaper and read it! However, read it productively. Here's how:

1. Read allthe employment ads, not just those in the category for which you're interested. The reason is th

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

t job openings will many times be in a completely different section than where you'd expect. For example, if you're looking for a medical supplies sales job, you should look in the "Sales" section of the want ads plus the "Health Care" section. You may even want to look

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

in the "Retail" section. Go through all the want ad sections because you never know where you next job may be listed.

2. Circle in red all jobs that look interesting. Don't spend too much time thinking about it, just go quickly through all the want ads and mark ones that look

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

Following aspects would a

promising.

3. Now go back and read carefully the ones you circled in red. Cross-off the ones that now don't seem appropriate or for which you aren't qualified.

4. For the remaining ones not crossed off, cut them out and enter them into the spreadsheet where you're tracking

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

obs you've applied for. Keep the ads you cut out in a manila folder labeled "Jobs Applied For" so that you'll know how the job was advertised if you get called for an interview.

The Sunday newspaper is where most job postings appear, so be sure to at least look every Sunday. B

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

t also check the daily edition because you never know when a job opening will first be published.

Newspaper Online Help Wanted Ads

Today, almost all newspapers have a web site and post their classified ads online in addition to publishing them on paper.

This is a

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

real boon for the job seeker because the online help wanted ads will usually stay online longer than in print. Plus, the larger newspapers help wanted ads will frequently have good search capabilities and will often list when each job was posted.

So how do you find the web site

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

for all the newspapers in your area? There are several online listings of newspapers and other media, but the best one in my opinion is The American Journalism Review Newslink (you can find it here: www.newslink.org/news.html). It is a very well organized and comprehensi

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e list of not only newspapers, but magazines and Radio/TV stations. It's sorted both by state and by category to make searching very easy. This should be your number one resource for finding newspaper and other media web sites. It is also thankfully free of any advertising or

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

annoying pop-ups.

The largest newspapers will even have "search agents" for their help wanted ads. A search agent allows you to define what types of jobs you're looking for and then whenever new jobs are posted that meet your criteria, they are emailed to you. It just doesn't

.

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

get any easier than this!

You should set up search agents at all the newspapers that offer them in your geographical area. However, this is not a substitute for searching the online help wanted ads on a regular (by regular, I mean daily) basis. New job postings may appear

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

in categories you don't have specified in your search agent.

You should print a copy of online help wanted ads that interest you. You can then apply for them one at a time. Be sure to enter them on your job tracking spreadsheet and keep a copy in your "Jobs Applied For" folder

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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