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There're many ways to conduct online job search. However, many job seekers only think of posting resumes and searching opportunities on big job sites like monster.com, hotjobs.com, and careerbuilder.com e

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

tc. There's nothing wrong with it, but according to a survey conducted by careerXrooads.com, of all hires in 2002, only 3.6% come from monster.com, 1.5% come careerbuilder.com, and 0.5% come from hotjobs.

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

Examples of combination products may in

com. Morever, many companies only advertise their job openings on their own company websites and some other speciality websites. Wouldn't it be nice if you can use search engines to find these opportuniti

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

s that are ignored by other job seekers?

Before we go any further of how to conduct online job search, I would like to talk a little bit about Boolean Logic. If you are a math or a computer student, you

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

may have already known it. Actually, it's very powerful, yet simple to use in search engines. The following are some of the most popular Boolean operators, modifiers and field search commands.

AND: C

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

Combination pro

llects documents that include all terms.

Google default operator.

Example: job AND nursing

OR: Collects documents that include at least one of the terms.

Example: nurse OR rn

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

NOT Collects documents that include the term that precedes it but not the

term that follows it.

AltaVista: AND NOT; Google: - (e.g. –submit); All The Web: ANDNOT

Example: manager AND NOT

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

sales

NEAR Collects documents with both terms that are within close proximity to

each other (usually 10 terms or less).

AltaVista ONLY. Useful for finding contacts within a specific locat

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

on.

Example: manager NEAR marketing

Quotation Marks “” Specify an exact phrase

Example: “SAS programmer”

Parenthesis () Define a search subset

Not used in Google

Ex

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

ample: (iowa OR ia) AND (manager OR director)

Wildcard Symbol * Matches any type and number of characters.

AltaVista ONLY.

Example: manag*

url: Look for keywords in the docum

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

nt URL.

Google: inurl

Example: url:position AND ibm

title: Look for keywords in the document title.

Google: intitle

Example: title:position AND merk

link: Look for

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

Following aspects would a

pages linked to a particular URL.

Example: link:dell.com

host: Scans a specific computer or host of a URL.

Example: host:mit.edu

domain: Looks for pages within a specific dom

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ain like .com, .org, .edu.

Example: domain:.org AND nurse

like: Looks for pages related in content

AltaVista: like:

Google: related:

Example: like:dell.com

filetype

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

Looks for pages with a specific file type attached or documented

Example: filetype:xls OR filetype:pdf

Now, let's say you're a pharmacist and is looking for a new job in boston area. So you ca

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

n go to www.altavista.com and conduct online job search using the following string:

url:job AND pharmacist AND contact AND position AND boston

If you use

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

http://www.google.com/">www.google.com, you don't need to type in AND since it's default operator in Google. So you can just use:

inurl:job pharmacist contact position boston

Now look at some more c

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

omplicated online job search examples:

(url:(job* OR opening* OR position* OR employ*) OR title:(job* OR opening* OR position* OR employ*)) AND send AND benefits AND opening AND EOE AND contact AND "SAS

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

programmer" AND boston

("resumes@" OR "jobs@" OR "careers@" OR "hr@" OR "human resources") AND (apply OR "send us" OR "send your" OR submit OR "fax us" OR "fax your") AND ("organic chemist" OR medicinal

.

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

hemist") AND (synthesis OR synthesize)

Now you see the power of online job search? Try different key word combinations and use them in different search engines. Some links you find might be junk links, b

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ut keep trying, as long as you pick up right key word combination, you should be able to find many job opportunities that are buried in deep deep web and are ignored by other job seekers.

Happy searching

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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