As many sectors of the life science industry continue to see dramatic growth, recruiting and retaining highly skilled professionals from a talent pool that’s struggling to keep up has become an enormous challenge.
Today’s pharmaceutical hiring managers need to be able to scale staff up or down rapidly as project demands fluctuate—a never-ending balancing act between managing current resources and planning for future staffing needs.
These pressures have led the pharma industry to accelerate traditional FTE recruitment and also embrace the contingent workforce via staff augmentation; highly-skilled individuals with expertise in rare and competitive fields who contract with organizations on a temporary basis. As firms are finding, this model often better reflects cyclical or project-based demand while infusing staff and systems with best practices gleaned from a variety of experiences.
But building and managing a contingent workforce can demand significant time and energy without the right recruitment partner—one that can take on the intensive work of finding talent and qualifying candidates around precise and constantly evolving requirements.
Here, we explain three useful tips when looking for a pharma staffing and recruitment partner that can help you find exactly who you need, when, and where you need them.
At The FDA Group, we help life science organizations rapidly access the industry's best consultants, contractors, and candidates. Our resources assist in every stage of the product lifecycle, from clinical development to commercialization, with a focus in Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Clinical Operations, as well as Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation, and Manufacturing and Engineering.
Contact us to start the conversion and access the industry's top talent, or explore our engagement models in more detail: Consulting Projects, Staff Augmentation, FTE Recruitment.
Staffing and recruitment firms that work across a variety of industries often dilute their effectiveness in each one.
Here at The FDA Group, our recruiters and project managers come from the world they hire into each day. Unlike larger firms, we’re armed with firsthand experience working in the roles where the subtle details make all the difference—accelerating the process of finding great talent. Learn more about our pharmaceutical recruitment services.
Especially in specialized life science roles, a resourcing firm’s job is to identify genuinely perfect-fit talent—not simply pass a stack of resumes back. Investigate how the firm finds and selects the resources they deliver as candidates to ensure they’re more than just a job board.
We have an extensive network of resources with established consulting agreements—some of whom are former FDA staff with intimate knowledge of requirements and expectations. If the perfect resource isn’t found there for some reason, we immediately move to an active channel to source from many thousands more in locations all around the world, most of whom are not listed on job boards or other channels utilized by HR departments.
A few simple questions can go a long way in locating an effective resourcing partner.
Here are a few:
Experience level often ties in closely to generalist versus niche resourcing firms.
This is a simple, but critical point that often flies under the radar only to result in a messy stack of candidates that might be far from what you actually need. More resumes don’t mean better candidates.
Need to fill select pharmaceutical roles in-house—particularly in the areas of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Commissioning/Qualification/Validation, or Manufacturing and Engineering? We rapidly identify qualified consultants, candidates, and contractors and connect you to them through the optimal workforce model.
Whether you need to fill a single role or multiple roles on your team, we connect you to professionals with experience and expertise across all phases, therapeutic areas, and locations to augment and scale your in-house team through consulting, contracted staff augmentation, or a direct-hire arrangement.
What's your pharma resourcing need?
Contact us to learn more about fulfilling specific pharmaceutical resourcing needs. We help life science organizations secure a wide variety of specialists with the perfect combination of qualifications, experience, and motivation for succeeding in challenging and demanding projects—all at a competitive rate and backed by a Total Quality Guarantee.