+Mohan Varma

Monday, February 4, 2013

How to get a job in pharmaceutical industry?

Follow these simple steps: 
1. Demonstrate them clearly your knowledge about, the company and their competitors. Show them that you're aware of the company's product lines, top-selling drugs and vaccines, and lower performing products for their company, as well as the competition.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of several key drugs, vaccines or OTC (over-the-counter) medicine and their indications (what the medicine is used to treat). This task is especially important if you're interviewing for sales and marketing positions.


3. Use the Situation, Task, Action and Result format to provide a few key examples of your capabilities. Generally multinational companies use this method of interviewing to ask candidates to describe a situation, the relevant task, the action that you personally took, and the ending result. It's fine if the final result is negative or unsuccessful, if you can provide some history about what you learned from the success or failure.
      4. Show them the experience if you may already have, such as manufacturing, tableting, compressing, aseptic filling, vialing, lyophilization or product release. This is especially important if you're attending interview for quality positions, where manufacturing problem solving is critical.
           5.Highlight your own contributions either as a team or individual. Employers will immediately spot and reject a candidate who's trying to hide results of a team. Although it's important to be a team player, your interviewer isn't interested in hiring the whole team. She's interested in hiring you. If you're giving a STAR example, include your own personal contributions, even if the example situation involved a team. Manufacturing, operations and quality positions rely on your individual performance and character since you could be called into a regulatory inspection at any time to defend company actions and policies.
      6. Prepare a small list of relevant questions. Questions about management style, company culture or corporate vision are good places to start. You can also come up with some key questions regarding drug pipeline, including what how companies are handling increased capacity for blockbuster drugs, or what their plans are for an upcoming drug product coming off patent. Asking questions is especially important if you're interviewing for management or supervisory positions.
      7. Thank the interviewer for her time. Provide a contact number where you can be reached if it's not already included on your resume. Ask what the next steps are. By asking this question, you're expressing your interest without being overbearing. It also lets your interviewer know to give you a time frame for hiring decisions.


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