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Advice You - Graduate Job Applications - Identify Your Transferable Skills
Getting into the labour market after school or college is a daunting prospect and that’s without the minefield of jargon, overnight advances in technology and discriminatory attitudes.
OK - Let’s bust a bit of that jargon! What exactly ar
OK - Let’s bust a bit of that jargon! What exactly ar
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
e transferable skills? Quite simply, they are things you can do in one area of your life which can be used somewhere else.
Let’s take an example. As a student, did you get all your assignments in on time? Were you able to set up extensions
Let’s take an example. As a student, did you get all your assignments in on time? Were you able to set up extensions
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
if your work was late? Did you learn how to type quickly and use a number of computer programmes effectively? Did you hold down a part-time job and manage to juggle work with study and your social life?
If you answered yes to all, or at l
If you answered yes to all, or at l
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
ast some of the above, you have demonstrated an extensive range of skills, such as effective time management, negotiating and good communication skills. Now, you may not give them such grand titles, but if you were filling in a job applicat
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
ion form, that’s exactly what you’d call them.
You’ve been picking up skills from the moment you were born. The problem is that you take most of your skills for granted. That’s something we’ve got to change! So grab a pen and paper, get yo
You’ve been picking up skills from the moment you were born. The problem is that you take most of your skills for granted. That’s something we’ve got to change! So grab a pen and paper, get yo
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
rself a cup of coffee and let’s get started.
Choose any role you’ve had in your life.
As a graduate, you’ll have spent a large part of your life so far as a student and so we’ll use that in our example. Have a go at brainstorming t
Choose any role you’ve had in your life.
As a graduate, you’ll have spent a large part of your life so far as a student and so we’ll use that in our example. Have a go at brainstorming t
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
he skills you developed in your school or student days.
What did you come up with?
Communication Skills
You had no chance of surviving as a student - and even less chance of passing your exams - if you couldn’t communicate the kno
What did you come up with?
Communication Skills
You had no chance of surviving as a student - and even less chance of passing your exams - if you couldn’t communicate the kno
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
ledge and skills that you are at college to learn.
How did you communicate this information? By writing essays, giving presentations or talks, delivering a lesson to other students, answering questions, writing a thesis? You may have devis
How did you communicate this information? By writing essays, giving presentations or talks, delivering a lesson to other students, answering questions, writing a thesis? You may have devis
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
ed questionnaires and interviewed members of the public, written articles for on or offline publication or for a college newsletter. You’ll have taken notes and summarised information from books and lectures. Think about each subject you st
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
died and write a list of the methods of communication you used, both oral and written and write examples of each.
Teamwork
As a student you will have been exposed to group work of some sort - I know, I’m a teacher! You may have had
Teamwork
As a student you will have been exposed to group work of some sort - I know, I’m a teacher! You may have had
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
to research a subject to make a group presentation or for a written assignment, or perhaps you produced a class newsletter or were involved in a community project with classmates. If you have played any team sports in your spare time, you
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
will know a lot about what it takes to work as a member of a team.
Ability to work alone and on your own initiative
Much of the work you did at college was not group work, but stuff you had to do alone and you probably had to motiv
Ability to work alone and on your own initiative
Much of the work you did at college was not group work, but stuff you had to do alone and you probably had to motiv
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
te yourself to get on with it. So, how good were you at getting all the work done? You may not have liked it, but if it had to be done, chances are you did it. How did you use your own initiative? Did you devise ways in which to make rememb
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
ering information easier? Did you come up with creative ideas to make your work different and interesting? Did you find a job which you were able to fit in with your studies and which solved some of your financial problems?
Ability to m
Ability to m
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
et deadlines
Deadlines - You certainly had a few of these in your student days. Did you meet them? You may have learned the hard way, sitting up all night at the last minute, but most people manage to get things in on time. And if you
Deadlines - You certainly had a few of these in your student days. Did you meet them? You may have learned the hard way, sitting up all night at the last minute, but most people manage to get things in on time. And if you
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
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
didn’t, how well did you negotiate an alternative solution?
IT Skills
As a student you will have used, at the very least, the internet, email and word processing packages. Your college will probably have provided free tuition in t
IT Skills
As a student you will have used, at the very least, the internet, email and word processing packages. Your college will probably have provided free tuition in t
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ese and possibly also in programmes like Powerpoint and Excel. You may also have developed other skills in your own time or when you were at school, such as web design or programming. Add all these to your list.
Research skills
You
Research skills
You
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
will have had to do some form of research for your assignments and for your thesis or dissertation if you went to university. Write down the methods you used – internet, specialist libraries, journals, interviewing, using questionnaires, d
.
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
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
ing case studies.
Communication skills, teamwork, ability to work on your own and to use your own initiative, ability to meet deadlines, IT and research skills are all high on employers’ lists of essential attributes in a graduate employee
Communication skills, teamwork, ability to work on your own and to use your own initiative, ability to meet deadlines, IT and research skills are all high on employers’ lists of essential attributes in a graduate employee
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
. Your job is to provide examples which prove that you have these skills. So, using the information in this article, make your own list of specific examples. They will help you shine both on paper and at the interview.
© Waller Jamison 200
© Waller Jamison 200
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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