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Executive Search in Life Sciences - balancing industry knowledge and management skills

What makes executive search in life sciences special is certainly the diversity of the positions. We are talking about a field that covers a wide range of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Looking at the research and development departments in these sectors alone makes on thing clear: it does not get boring! Often it is also about finding candidates who have both industry expertise and the necessary "soft skills" for a position in management. That is a challenge!Each sea

Updated 5 years ago

MedTech in Europe and the continuously high demand for high-level talent

Life Sciences consist of a variety of very interesting fields with another big variety of innovative companies and ideas in each of these fields. Just the MedTech sector alone has produced impressive numbers in the last years that stand for a significant level of growth, innovation and potential. And with that potential comes the demand for talent. But let’s look at the numbers first.MedTech Europe regularly reports an interesting collection of data from the MedTech industry, which they p

Updated 5 years ago

Be known in your industry – why it matters (especially in executive search)

Sometimes we get asked why we spend so much effort on articles like this one and all the other things we do in social networking on- and offline. Why we go to events like Biocom, MedTech Forum and and also happily organize our own events and what our LinkedIn, Twitter, Xing and Content Hubs are all about. Yes, it seems like a lot of work - and it is – but it ultimately leads to a certain visibility and recognition for the content we provide. Knowing your way around the industry is not worth much, as long as nobody knows about it.<sp

Updated 5 years ago

Value in Healthcare: The Patients Perspective

Today, patients and carers are taking more and more responsibility for their health and are progressively demanding more patient centric services. They are increasingly demanding to be given the tools to manage their own health.Global healthcare systems are confronted with major challenges when tackling chronic disease. Amongst the long-term conditions doctors treat, diabetes places one of the greatest burdens on health services. The number of patients with the disease is rapidly increasi

Updated 5 years ago

What a happy candidate is worth

As a headhunter you always work as a middleman between two sides that don’t need to start out with having all too much in common. Especially in high-level positions it’s a delicate and sometimes lengthy process to find the right person for the job. It requires a great deal of consideration and also trust. From both sides. Obviously the “customer” that pays for the service of executive search is the one to satisfy but in the end the search is only entirely successful when both sides are happy. This is why we put particular emphasis on very positiv

Updated 5 years ago

Companion diagnostics – a trend that affects us all

Something that we hear everywhere we go – conferences, business meetings, networking events – is companion diagnostics. They accompany a lot of the developments around personalized medicine, digitalization and cost reduction and they are important to almost all stakeholders in Life Sciences. Including me and you.What are companion diagnostics?Companion diagnostics describe a simplified version of tests that determin

Updated 5 years ago

Time to meet in person! Where we are 2017

As much as we love exploring all the fascinating possibilities of digital communication and social media, we still value meeting people face-to-face just as much. Even if we start a lot of conversations online, we like to pursue them further or finish them with an actual real-life interaction. Especially since we deal so much with fitting personalities into high-level positions, we need to get a really good sense of people. And not least, we simply like to meet new people and network.<span style="background-color: transpa

Updated 5 years ago

Collaboration in Life Sciences – the new way of selling?

One of the reasons why it’s so exciting for us to work in Life Sciences is the fact that the industry is constantly in motion and exciting developments constantly create opportunities – not only for us. With the rise of new technologies, a growing interest in big data and personalized medicine as well as the <a href="http://www.industryinmotion.de/single-post/2016/09/13/The-future-of-Life-Sciences-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-fusion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--ricos

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Headhunting in Life Sciences and diversity – oops we did it again!

A lot of the positions we’re filling in the Life Sciences industry are very challenging ones, often including high-level responsibilities. To match candidates to these job profiles can be a long and complicated process. Our experience shows that the complexity of the job profiles in this industry often calls for a more complex search. Somehow we thereby, almost without the concrete intention, advocate for change and diversity in the client’s company. How does that happen?Disr

Updated 5 years ago

Rejection in job search – how to use it to your advantage

No matter what level you’re on and what kind of job you’re looking for – you’re going to have to deal with rejection at some point. Actually the further up you climb, the less the jobs become and you might even have to deal with more rejection. Although these positions are mostly filled through existing connections, there is still often more than one candidate in the race for only one position. And as much as it can quite honestly suck (excuse me) to be rejected, I can only recommend to try and see the good in these rejections. It can only benefi

Updated 5 years ago