“I just wish they would have spent more time explaining how I could grow with the company. The career vision with them is unclear.” “The more I think about it, he didn’t seem very interested in learning about me. It was very dry and the questioning was robotic.” “This would’ve been easier a few weeks … Read Full

As a partner of the eyeforpharma Barcelona summit, 18-20 March 2014. I thought you should know they have just released their full timed agenda online. You can view the agenda and speakers by visiting eyeforpharma. The whole theme of the summit is driving value with your stakeholders, with three focussed areas in Value Partnerships, Sales Excellence … Read Full

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (BUSINESS WIRE) It was three years ago Christmas Eve that Paul and Alison Frase were forced to say goodbye to their 15-year-old son, Joshua, but the Frases and the foundation that bears their son’s name finally have good reason to rejoice: promising pre-clinical data results from a five-year study on myotubular … Read Full

It’s true – the clock is always ticking with good candidates. With bad or average candidates, you can really do what you want. Take your time, be indecisive, lose focus – whatever – bad to average candidates will be there whenever you get your act together and actually want to make a hire. Good to … Read Full

There’s little denying that it’s been a torrid millennium so far in the pharmaceutical business. Since, 2000, the industry has cut around 300,000 jobs, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Around half of these losses have occurred in the past 2-3 years and there is every indication that there are more to come. “It’s a … Read Full

BodyShock is a great idea! IFTF’s BodyShock is the first of what is planned to be an annual competition to recruit crowdsourced designs and solutions for better health—to remake the future by rebooting the present. BodyShock calls upon the public to consider innovative ways to improve individual and collective health over the next 3-10 years by transforming our … Read Full

Dawn A. Crawford, Manager, Social Media, for MedThink Communications, a full-service healthcare communications agency in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended the ExL Pharma 6th PR and Communications Summit in NYC and shares a recap in this guest post. Follow @MedThink on Twitter and Facebook.com/MedThink. Anyone who has ever read a comic book or seen a movie based on a comic … Read Full

In this guest post, Nick Dawson shares with us why “experience matters.”  Nick describes himself as “bridging the gap between healthcare operations and social media.” With more than 12 years of experience in hospital operations, he understands what makes healthcare tick. As the champion of a social media success story, Nick is the Director Community … Read Full

You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.”  Let’s NOT call the whole thing off! Last Friday’s #HCSMEU conversation brought up differences regarding healthcare and pharma marketing social conversations in Europe and the U.S, both in style and function.  I have participated in all the healthcare Twitter Chats for over a year now and wanted to share some differences … Read Full

Mom told you to share, but she also said to say “please” and “thank you.” With all the buzz about “influence’ in social media, people are forgetting real social media clout is built on “trust.” How trustworthy are you? At TWTRCON last month, Laura Fitton, aka @pistachio, stated that “Influence is serving others.” I would add it is … Read Full