PharmiWeb Recruiter Blog

Over the past 18 months, employees working across the Life Sciences have proven that there is space for both hybrid and fully remote working within the industry. Although these ways of working bring many benefits to the industry, they can also have their drawbacks. If you’re planning on making remote working a more permanent choice for employees, there are some extra things to consider, especially in terms of how you’re going to keep your employees connected.  

According to LinkedIn, around 60% of job seekers use job boards to search for new roles, making it one of the biggest channels for job hunting. Although job boards provide a great opportunity for you to push your roles to candidates outside of your organisation’s network and to engage large volumes of candidates across multiple platforms, larger boards aren’t always the best way to attract high-quality candidates. This is where niche job boards come in…

Pharmaceutical recruitment agencies act as the bridge between pharma companies and candidates, helping to match the right candidates to the right vacancies. Recruitment agencies can be a great way of identifying hard to find or specialised talent, and of taking a company’s roles to candidates outside of its own network.

When recruiting for your next pharma position, it’s important to consider how you can make candidates feel at ease during the process, especially when it comes to the interview stage. Not only will making your candidates feel at ease help them to relay their potential as clearly as possible, but it will also help you to relax too, allowing you to build a better rapport with them. 

One of the most frustrating things for pharma recruiters and hiring managers is to hire a candidate who appears to be perfect for a role, only to later find out that they lied in their application, making them a lot less ideal - and even less trustworthy - than they originally seemed.

Job aggregators are incredibly useful platforms for Pharma and Life Science recruiters, as they provide a cost-effective way to advertise open positions to large candidate pools, helping to compete in the fight for the best talent in the industry.

For Life Science recruiters, one of the easiest mistakes to make when advertising a job vacancy is to simply copy and paste the information from your job description, into the copy of your job advert. 

Especially for companies within the Life Sciences industry, retaining top talent is a particularly tough challenge for employers, but is one which is just as important – if not, more important – as finding new talent. 

PharmiWeb.jobs use a network of job aggregators and partners to promote your vacancy to reach the best candidates.

If you’re a Life Science recruiter or hiring manager, then there are some extra things to consider when conducting an interview online; particularly in terms of preparation, making your candidates feel at ease and assessing how they conduct themselves without being in a room with them.