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I am a recruiter with 30 years experience reading, critiquing and submitting resumes of candidates for positions with my client companies. In a few cases I can talk about a candidate to my client hiring authority long enou

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

gh to get an interview for the person. Most of the time I get this simple reply: send me his or her resume and I will look it over. The resume is the document most responsible for your career advancement, employment or une

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

Examples of combination products may in

ployment as the case may be. It must be perfect in every respect.

Perfection in every respect means just that. Your vocabulary, spelling, font, margins, type face, and other compositional items must suit the intended usag

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

and reader’s expectations. It must look equally good on their computer or printed out on paper. It should come through their posting programs intact and it must fit into both the PC and the Mac worlds.

Some canned resume

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

preparation programs or subroutines within Microsoft Word and other text production software programs such as Resume Perfect are good. Most are not. You really should start with a blank document on your screen and compose

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

Combination pro

our resume yourself. Otherwise you will end up with construction artifacts that are nearly impossible to remove. One example of this is text boxes. Some programs insist on adding text boxes and frames to resumes as if they

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

would be displayed as a web page.

Sometimes you may want a web presence for your resume. Mostly, it is a waste of time. Few companies will go to the trouble of bringing it up, and if they did like it they would still have

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

to download it and save it. And you do not know what format they would save it in. Stick with a text format, and don’t use boxes.

Many people use bullets or asterisks to highlight lists of items. Unfortunately the bullets

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

are lost in transmission to other machines through data entry sites. The migration to a text display program causes them to appear as strange characters such as %20 or ^20. Surely you don’t want your carefully worded docum

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

nt to start every line with a %20. This problem can be avoided by not using any special characters in your resume. Stick with text only.

Font size can also be a problem. Too small a font size will cause the reader to have

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

to expand the resume on their screen and lead to parts being off to the side that will require side to side scrolling. This is a waste of time. You do not want your hiring authority to have to display your resume at 150% t

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

Following aspects would a

o be able to read it.

Conversely, I have seen numerous resumes with the name of the person at the top show’s up in 20 point type. That truly looks ridiculous. Save that headline type for when you win the Nobel Prize.

I u

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ually prefer Courier New as a type face. Others are probably as good, but I got used to it as a carryover from typed resumes. Probably many senior hiring authorities are trained the same way and expect a similar type face.

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

Don’t use any ultra modern typeface.

Many composition programs such as Word have a spelling and grammar checking function. Checking is one way to identify questionable sentence construction and spelling. Remember however,

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

it’s only a check, not a totally accurate solution. You must verify each suggested change with your own examination and investigation.

Take a look at the “Properties” tool in the “File” menu in Microsoft Word. This inform

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

tion is lodged inside your resume file whenever you send it out. You might be shocked at what you see there. Previous users of your word processing program may have information there that you do not want to send along with

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

your resume. It’s not exactly a virus, but data that is not known for its’ accuracy. I look at that material on every resume just as a little background check on my candidate’s thoroughness.

You can test some of these par

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

meters with your email friends. Send them your resume; let them take a look at it on their screens and computers. Send one to an associate with a data entry web page or blog site. Print it on your printer and pin it up on

.

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

he wall and look at it from 20 feet away. How does it compare to some others that you undoubtedly have read over the years. And,download some resumes off the web and take a look at your competition’s efforts. How does your

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

stack up?

Send my firm a copy and I will critique it and give you some comments for free. It’s kind of fun for me, and I think you might find it valuable in your search for a better job.

Dan Brockman www.trainingjob.co

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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