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To be successful in your job search campaign you must think like an employer or a recruiter. If you are going to do this right, you need to appreciate the ways that employers sift through the flood

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 resumes. We call the most common process the screening.

Faced with a pile of hundreds of job applications that recruiters typically receive, a screener would be more then human to give such in-depth attention to every one.

; 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 the real world, skim reading of resumes is very much a reality and it is easy to miss crucial information.

Do you know what their objective is?

We can tell you what it is not.

Screeners are nor there to find the bes

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 candidate for the job!

What they are looking for is a way to weed out every resume possible. The goal is to present whoever is making the hi

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

ing decision with a manageable shortlist of potential candidates - maybe 5 or 10 out of all applications they received. It's a matter of numbers!

What screeners look for?

Well, it depends on how stringent they are. Many

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

Combination pro

will chuck your resume right away if they find any of the following errors:

An anonymous address such as "Dear Sir/Madam", "To whom it may concern" or "Dear Recruiter" etc.,

Incorrect title, name or company

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

of the person to whom you are writing,

Forgetting to include a real person's name,

A single, visible spelling or typographical mistake,

Any stain or dirt on the document.

How these

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

folks can do this?

You might be wondering how these folks can do this, after you spent so much time putting your job application package together.

The answer is plain and simple - they can afford to because it is a buyer's

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

market.

Employers ask themselves if your skills and work achievements match exactly what they are looking for. They check if your cover letter is concise and targeted to the reader. If you have sent a form letter, you can proba

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

bly kiss the job good bye. The list of reasons to disqualify you goes on and on.

The new screening technology

If you think the process is bad now, just wait. It is going to get better we think (or worse, depending on yo

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

ur point of view). This new technology could be very helpful to you. It could help you find your next job. We call it an “electronic applicant screening & tracking technology”. Most human resources in small, medium and large bus

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

Following aspects would a

inesses and organizations are using it.

By using the latest in document imaging technology, they scan your resume into a computer system and keep it "active" for years. The computer can search for just about anything in your re

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ume. You could be qualified and considered for jobs of which you never thought. The computer can make it easier for you to be considered for more jobs and keeps your resume on file, so updating your information is quicker.

H

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

ere is how it works

They scan your resume into the computer as an image. Then OCR (optical character recognition) software looks at the image to distinguish every letter and number (characters) and creates a text file (in A

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

SCII format). Then artificial intelligence "reads" the text and extracts important information about you, such as your name, an address, phone number, work history, skills, degrees, achievements, years of experience, education,

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

etc. in the form of key words.

Key words refer to those words and phrases that are used to search of resumes for hits.

A hit is when one of your skills matches a computer search key word.

Why is it important for you to kno

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

this?

You have to, because if you want to find a job you need to prepare a resume for the computer to read. You want it to be a "scannable resume". So, the computer system can scan resumes into database and rank them accor

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

ding to the number of resulting hits.

A scannable resume should be clean so the scanner can get a clean image. The scannable resume has standard fonts and crisp, black type (such as a laser printer or typewriter with a new ribb

.

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

on would produce), so the OCR can recognize every character. In addition, a scannable resume has plenty of key words for the artificial intelligence to extract. More skills and facts (key words) you provide, the more opportuniti

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

es (hits) you will match or generate.

We are recommending preparing a Key Word Resume especially developed for the above requirements

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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Your first day on the new job, you may be too nervous or wound up to think too far ahead – but if you want to set yourself apart in the game, you should be thinking about positioning yourself for advancement from Day 1.

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