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How to make best use of your headhunter Pt2 – The candidate’s perspective

When you’re an executive candidate looking for a job, it’s highly probable you’ll be dealing with a headhunter some part of the way (most probably almost all the way). You might also be dealing with a headhunter when you’re not even actively looking for a job and get approached for the quality of your profile. Either way, you’ll be working together and why not try to make the best use of your headhunter? He may not be hired by you but you can make him work in your favor as much as you can. What do you need to pay attention to?</

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How to make best use of your headhunter Pt1 – The company’s perspective

In executive search it’s very common that companies work with external headhunters to find the right person for the job. That’s partly due to the complexity of such a search and also due to a high level of expertise necessary. Since an executive search project is such a crucial investment – not only in terms of expense but also with regard to the right quality you certainly expect – it’s something to pay attention to very much in detail. But to start out with understanding what’s necessary to make working with a headhunter a success we should loo

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How to make it into the C-Suite in Life Sciences

I guess the one thing you can say for sure about C-Suite careers is that there is nothing steady or “mapped out” about them. They are challenging and competitive, they are going through change constantly and if there is anything constant about them, it’s probably the change itself. So when writing about C-Suite careers in Life Sciences there are no certainties but there are tendencies. What’s most likely to get you into a C-Suite career in Life Sciences?Be the generalist in a

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Employees in Life Sciences – what you need to keep them happy

Just like in any other company in any other industry in Life Sciences you’re usually better off keeping your talent happy. In order to achieve that you need an understanding of what your employees are like and what drives them. Not that Life Science employees are overtly special or different but – thanks to the distinct requirements of the industry – they often emphasize certain tendencies over others just because of the nature of the industry. And they get hired and potentially leave their employer because of them. So which of these traits are e

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Outcomes in Healthcare: the payer perspective (UK)

The UK national health service (NHS) is held in high regard by the public. Yet it is also overly bureaucratic, costs the taxpayer billions and is heading towards bankruptcy as a result of increasing demand and decreasing money. The NHS is facing the same pressures as any other state health service provider such as:an increase in lifestyle-related conditions such as heart diseaseincreasing public expectationsthe impact of social inequalitypeople living longerhuge variations in stand

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Developments in German Pharmaceutical recruiting

When you’re working with executive talent in the Life Sciences, it’s always good to keep an eye on the numbers. That’s why we took particular interest in a report from Vacancysoft on the pharmaceutical recruitmen

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5 secrets to successful executive search

Since GenSearch is obviously dealing with the topic on a daily basis, we thought it’s maybe time to give away some insights into what we’re really doing and how it works. Executive search is a highly advanced form of recruitment and follows some rather different rules than average recruiting. Executives are not just like any other candidate and finding the perfect fit can make a huge difference in a company’s success. Do you want to hear (or read) some secrets?1 Do candidate

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“When you run a company every day is a challenge”

Executives up close - Interviewwith Gerhard KLEMENT (CEO and Owner CellworX Pte Ltd.)Nationality: German, living in SingaporeSharing some in-depth insights into executive careers in the Life Sciences we’re kicking off our interview series “Executives up close” with the very passionate and impressive Gerhard Klement from CellworX Pte Ltd.</spa

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The Healthcare Value Chain – what will it look like tomorrow?

Interesting times are ahead of us in the Life Sciences. A lot of things have been said, a lot of trends tossed around, but when you want to prepare yourself for the upcoming changes, you really need to look deeper and concern yourself with how the Healthcare Value Chain is going to change you and your company. Because the trends are here already, now it’s time to take them on.Power is shifting – but where?If we talk

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Employer Branding? What’s it to you as a CEO?

I certainly hope it’s an awful lot! I may not be the first one to break it to you but I took the time out of my (and your!) schedule to remind you of how important your Employer Brand should be to you. Not to your Marketing Peeps, not to your HR department but to you! As a leader you should be in control of your Employer Brand at any given time. Who are the people in your company working for? And do they know that? Can you afford to not know the answer to these questions?Your

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