Regulatory Landscape Newsletter – September 2023

This is our Regulatory Landscape newsletter for September 2023 with our monthly insights on the evolving market for Regulatory professionals.    For the month of August there were about 80 new Regulatory positions posted at smaller biotech and pharma companies in the US. This is up about 14% from last month and very similar to the[…]

Hiring Top Candidates in Today’s Competitive Market

In today’s market, it’s incredibly challenging to find the desired Regulatory talent for growing bio/pharma organizations.  We’ve seen companies adjust levels, rapidly promote people, and lower their expectations.  It’s an arduous process but once you finally are ready to make an offer, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get the acceptance.  The biggest challenge is that[…]

A Tip, A Trend, And An Observation

Tip – When asked what frustrates a person most about working with a recruiter, it’s the same response.  It’s that recruiters don’t follow up and people are left hanging.  Having worked with one  long ago, I can relate to this frustration.  However, now that I’m on the other side of things, I hear the same[…]

Employee Retention

Employee retention is addressed every day in conversations, articles, postings, etc. Why is this topic of such importance? Companies spend thousands of dollars and countless hours recruiting candidates, on-boarding employees and training them with the ultimate goal of retaining them.  And yet, article after article states that people, especially millennials, will only stay in a job for[…]

The easiest way to address a talent shortage

Several years ago there was so much top-tier regulatory talent on the market that companies could take their time making hiring decisions.  It truly was an employer’s market.  Unfortunately, some companies are still taking too long, losing out on a much harder to recruit talent pool.  In fact, recently several companies told us they have[…]

First Friday Preview April 2016

Improving Employee Engagement: It Starts with Managers Staff engagement among the U.S. workforce has remained steady at 33 percent over the past few years, according to recent data from Gallup. This is quite low considering that strong employee engagement is the catalyst for company growth and success. Numbers worldwide are even starker, with 87 percent[…]