My latest guest on the podcast Annree Wogan (Co-Founder of Adora, a Medical Affairs, Leadership and Coaching Consultancy), discussed tools such as the 5 Voice of Leadership and the 70:30 Principle which are visual leadership tools to help us better understand our strengths and how we can identify them but also the difference between learnt behaviours and our natural strengths!

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We talked recruitment, business, challenges and why Craig believes it’s so important to give people a go. 

Discover how Praks, an international student from India graduated with a master’s in biotechnology during the hardest covid times. And THEN managed to land herself a role as a medical affairs associate without any prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Nav has worked in the pharmacovigilance world for a considerable amount of time now. She also created an internship program out of her own time for university students to explore pharmacovigilance. Of the 4 she recruited, ALL of them were able to find jobs afterwards in the pharmaceutical industry!

Tune in to hear more. 

Curious to hear Swetha's story on how despite going through 6 months of unemployment after graduating with a university degree in pharmaceutical science she finally made it into the industry? 

This episode is for you. 

Interested to find out what procurement within a pharmaceutical company is all about? (I was!)

 We discussed (of course):
 What is procurement? How has the current climate and global warning affected procurement? What skills does Elvan look for when hiring? And how is she helping to get young talents into this industry.

I’ll end this post with a quote from our episode that stood out for me:

“We assume too much sometimes […] and it’s up to us to take the lead on our personal development, be honest about what you want to do and how you want to evolve in an organisation”.

I was so excited to record this episode. This episode for me is a true example of a young talent who despite his challenges, perceived and made it. 

I landed on a gem called Brendan Stewart. 

In this episode we discussed what universities could do more for us to get into the work force, his role as a GP sales representative and advice Brendan has to young talents trying to get into the pharmaceutical industry! 

2 weeks ago I chatted with Joseph Cox, associate director at Proclinical staffing about his role as an associate director, his greatest success stories and MOST importantly what advice does he give to graduates trying to enter the pharmaceutical industry…
PS: PhD people!! Go and hear what Joe has to say about publications on a cv 😉 

Mollie Gunn gets it. 4 mins into the interview, when talking about how she entered the industry she states: ‘I didn’t realise how difficult it was to get into sales or anything else in the industry, especially when you don’t have prior experience and on top of that I’m Irish and didn’t have a permanent visa’.

Like the sound of that?  I do haha (a bit biased I know...) 

We also talked about graduate programs, why it can be hard to break into the industry from a recruiter’s point of view and then… we were interrupted by Mango (the dog) so we did have to end the episode…

As well as being a medical director in oncology for many years, Kevin has also been a mentor for graduates looking to enter the industry, he has been heavily involved in a masters programs that has a near 100% employment rate into the industry! I also asked why companies are holding back on recruiting inexperienced graduates....