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What does it mean to be a passive candidate?

In the recruitment world, recruiters and hiring managers use the ter

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

m “passive candidate” to describe someone who is not actively looking for a job.

A passive candidate is typically someon

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

who isn’t looking for a new job but who would (or might) consider a good opportunity if one arose.

This is opposed to b

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ing an active candidate, someone who is actively searching for a new job.

Many in the recruitment world talk about how a

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

passive candidate is preferable to an active candidate. Many of them argue about the merits of this statement and whether

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

or not it’s true.

The idea behind this preference tends to be the thought that finding a potential employee who is ha

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

rd to get is somehow more desirable than a person who is actively searching for a new job.

From your perspective – t

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

e job searcher – I’d be less concerned about the definitions of the two terms and I’d be more concerned about what they m

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

an in reality to you.

To me as a recruiter, let me tell you about things that I consider when thinking about whet

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

er or not I want to help someone with their job search:

1. I don’t want to help a job searcher who has their resum

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

plastered all over the Internet. It’s hard these days to find employers who don’t have access to the most popular job we

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

bsites. Many employers won’t let recruiters send them resumes of candidates who have their resume placed on job boards th

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

t the employers have access to since the employer can search the database and find such candidates themselves.

2. I don’

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

mind helping a job searcher who is already looking for another job but when they have applied to dozens if not hundreds

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

f companies and haven’t found a new job yet, I start to wonder why? Plus it makes it harder for the recruiter to find goo

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

opportunities for you if you’ve already applied to numerous companies.

3. I think there is something to be said

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

about finding a passive candidate who isn’t actively looking for a new job and who is currently and happily working. It c

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

n eliminate many issues that recruiters don’t really want to deal with. If you are not actively looking for a job, we don

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

t worry about competing with other recruiters trying to put the same jobs in front of you, we don’t worry about you accep

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ing another job offer and we don’t worry about putting jobs in front of you that you might have already applied to.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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