Profiling Former Pharma Professionals
April 30, 2009 by pharma · Leave a Comment
As often as we can, we’re going to be profiling current and former pharma professionals who have made successful transitions into other careers, ventures, industries, and lifestyles. Read more
Bridging the Digital Divide: Meet Jonathan Richman
An 11 year vet of the pharma industry, Jonathan Richman made a transition to Director of Business Development for Bridge Worldwide, an interactive and relationship marketing agency based in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose clients include: Procter & Gamble, ConAgra Foods, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Kroger.
He now preaches the virtues of e-marketing to the broader healthcare industry as a whole, and has written extensively on how to embrace digital technologies like Twitter to develop and nurture a company’s brand.
Big Pharma to Big Screen: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is a filmmaker, syndicated talk radio host, and consumer health advocate. After a decade in big pharma, she finally walked away from the industry to pursue a lifelong dream as a filmmaker. Her films include Side Effects starring Katherine Heigl and Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety which was deemed by the American Library Association as one of the most important films of 2008.
Kathleen has been featured by more than 100 media outlets worldwide, including the New York Times, The Economist, CNN, NPR, Atlantic Monthly, and Oprah Radio. She has also been a contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine.
Kathleen sat down with After Pharma to discuss what life has been like since making the transition.
From Pushing Pills to Selling Skills
Jim Dart is an example of someone who left the pharma industry but still serves it. After 3 years as a pharma sales rep, he left to start a recruiting company aimed at placing those with pharma experience.
He sat down with us at After Pharma to talk about some of the skills he picked up in pharma that he was able to leverage in serving it from the outside.
Utilizing Recruiters - Some Tips from Robyn Thompson
June 14, 2009 by pharma · Leave a Comment
A big resource when searching for the next great job is the world of head hunters or recruiters.
The premise seems at the outset fairly simple, send your resume, maybe meet for a quick chat and sit back and wait for the job interviews to start pouring in. This might have been the case a number of years ago when the market was flush with opportunities and companies were expanding. But nowadays when the exact opposite is happening and jobs are being pulled as quickly as they once appeared, the job seeker now has to approach job hunting and the utilization of recruiters with a bit more canny. Let’s be honest, recruiters don’t really care about you, they care about their clients. This isn’t to knock the profession but it is to set realistic expectations about where you stand in the food chain. Recruiters aren’t placing you out of the goodness of their heart – they are getting paid to do so and as such, have a responsibility to their customer. In the majority of cases that customer isn’t you.
Given the market dynamics today with few jobs and too many candidates, the real question is how do you get your hands on those prime accounts in a recruiter’s portfolio?
