What’s the Difference Between Pharma/Biotech and CRO Employment?
Our postings for pharmaceutical and biotech jobs may include employment opportunities with contact research organizations (CROs). Though the jobs often qualify as pharmaceutical and biotech jobs from a technical standpoint, the industry draws a clear distinction between CROs and companies of the other two types....
Orphan Drugs: What Are They and How Do They Impact Big Pharma?
There is a little-known class of drugs that many people in the pharmaceutical industry don’t know about. It is a class of drugs that is gradually having a bigger impact on the pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare industries. What is it? Orphan drugs. You can be...
Applying with a Biotech Startup: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself
A constantly changing biotech sector can make looking for a new job somewhat dicey. Biotech jobs with seasoned companies offer enough variables on their own. Jobs at startups add more uncertainty to the mix. By definition, startups are new companies just getting into the game,...
How You Can Work with Employers to Make Job Interviews Better
The Pharmiweb.com pharmacy news website posted a compelling piece in spring 2021, a piece intended to help employers make job candidates feel more at ease during pharma job interviews. Reading it makes one wonder how many employers go out of their way to make candidates as comfortable...
Biotech Diversity is Still Lagging but Improving Nonetheless
Here at Pharma Diversity, we do more than just offer access to pharmaceutical job boards. We also do our part to promote diversity in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. As such, we are happy to report that, even though biotech diversity is still lagging, it...
The Importance of Diversity in the Healthcare Community
Healthcare is, by definition, a person-focused industry. After all, a healthcare worker’s job is to help people through some of the most important moments of their life, from birth to death, from illness and injury to recovery. It is, in other words, a universal endeavor,...
Applying for Pharmacy Jobs: Why Recruits Have the Edge
Applying for Pharmacy Jobs: Why Recruits Have the Edge The job market is a lot like the real estate market. Sometimes it favors sellers, other times it favors buyers. The sellers in the job market are candidates being actively recruited by employers. And right now,...
What Are Some of the Biotech Jobs Available in Pharmacy?
Biotech is an established science with lots of emerging possibilities. It has become a hot commodity in the pharmaceutical industry over the last 10 to 20 years, primarily due to our increased understanding of human genetics. This is not to say that biotech doesn’t offer...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules LGBTQ Workers Are Protected from Job Discrimination
The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person’s sex, also covers a person’s sexual orientation and transgender status.
FDA Ends Emergency Use of Hydroxychloroquine & Chloroquine for COVID-19
The Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorizations the two antiviral drugs promoted by President Trump, despite concerns surrounding their effectiveness and safety.