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How to Find Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Salary Info

by Ellen Clark on May 14, 2012

While negotiating an offer from a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company it is important to have as much information as possible about the salary for any given position. If you have been at the same biotech or pharma job for a long time you might not know your true value in the market place. Likewise if [...]

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Women: Get the Salary You Deserve

May 7, 2012

Women in general, including women in the life sciences, the area in which Clark Executive Search recruits, do not get as high a salary as men. There has been much written on this subject including a post I wrote titled “ Women Make Less Money than Men in Pharma & Academia”. Often woman are their own [...]

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The 2012 Conferences Clark Executive Search Has Attended

April 30, 2012

As an executive recruiter for Clark Executive Search it is important to be as current as possible in my particular niche area and also with the recruitment industry overall. Therefore I try to attend as many conferences as my budget and time will allow. So far this year I have attended two scientific conferences since [...]

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How to Communicate with an Executive Recruiter

April 23, 2012

How candidates communicate with an executive recruiter during an interview is very revealing to the recruiter. Clark Executive Search recruiters spend almost all their time interviewing our candidates for pharmaceutical and biotechnology positions. So we are attuned to which candidates succeed in communicating well and those that do not. We mentally check off a list [...]

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Will the Pharmaceutical Jobs Market Ever Come Back?

April 9, 2012

  Clark Executive Search is a recruitment firm for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Therefore we follow the biotechnology and pharmaceutical jobs trends closely. The last few years have been tough and hundreds of thousands of pharma jobs have been lost. The reasons for this have been covered before including lackluster pipelines, the end of the [...]

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Facebook Passwords, An Executive Recruiter’s Opinion

March 27, 2012

Everyone has seen the news recently about some employers wanting candidates’ Facebook passwords to learn more about them before hiring. (See BusinessWeek’s “ Big Brother Wants your Facebook Password”. I, like others, was appalled to read this bit of news. I run a biotechnology and pharmaceutical executive search firm, Clark Executive Search, and I know a [...]

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Our Executive Search Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Services

March 25, 2012

Although I maintain an informative company web page for my pharmaceutical/biotechnology executive search firm, Clark Executive Search, I thought I would highlight our services in my blog: 1.  Recruitment of senior biotech and pharma scientists. We are executive recruiters for life scientists who have at a minimum a PhD; often they have a combination of a [...]

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For Pharma Jobs/Biotech Jobs- Always Take Recruiters’ Calls

March 16, 2012

When a recruiter calls about some pharma jobs, or biotech jobs as the case might be, it is a good idea to listen to the recruiter and check out the opportunities. You never know where a recruiter’s call will take you. At Clark Executive Search we try to source candidates for particular jobs in biotech [...]

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Biotechnology Recruiter Reveals Client Bloopers

March 12, 2012

Clark Executive Search recruits top scientists and doctors for both biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, but for this post I will wear my biotechnology recruiter hat because most problems or bloopers in the recruitment process happen with the smaller biotechnology companies than with the big pharmas. The problems stem from the size and the lack of [...]

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Pharmaceutical Recruiting vs. Biotechnology Recruiting: Is there a Difference?

March 2, 2012

Clark Executive Search is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in biotechnology and pharmaceutical recruitment for research and development positions at the experienced PhD and MD level. Since 1997, we have had many searches for both biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients. We have learned that there are quite a few differences between pharmaceutical recruiting and [...]

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A Pharmaceutical Recruiter’s Interview Tips for Life Science Jobs

February 27, 2012

As an experienced pharmaceutical recruiter for the recruitment firm, Clark Executive Search, I have had to coach many of my life science candidates over the years in the art of the interview. Since I recruit only senior level PhD and MD candidates, I offer them some interviewing tips that are unique for this life science group. [...]

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