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Your CV (Curriculum Vitae) – Resume for our American friends sells you to your prospective employer. It has to be straight and too the point. However too many CV’s co

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

ntain irrelevant information. What are the ten things that you shouldn’t write in your CV?

1) Don’t use first person in your personal profile

It sounds too informal

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

Examples of combination products may in

if you use the word ‘I’ too often. If you see CV’s that say ‘I am good at this’ or ‘I have experience at this’ or ‘My skills include’ it sounds extremely amateurish.

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

owever, if you use the third person, it denotes a certain amount of respectability, authority and value to your previous experience. For instance, you would be better

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

off saying ‘David’s core skills include…’ or ‘He graduated with an MBA in 2005’.

2) Don’t write too much in your personal profile

Your personal profile should be a

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

Combination pro

four or five line synopsis about you, your key experience and your unique skills. It shouldn’t contain any more information than that. That’s what the rest of your CV

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

is for. Think of it as a subheading. It should succinctly summarise what is to follow. It is merely an extension to the selling tool that is called your CV.

3) Don’t

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

include family details

Never, ever include personal family details on your CV. If you include details like your wife’s name or your children’s name on your CV then i

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

’s like saying to your prospective employer that family is more important than your current job. Even if it is – it’s not a very good way to ‘sell’ your willingness t

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

o focus on work. Think about it. Do business professionals include details about their children on marketing materials for their business? Of course not. It’s as craz

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

as that. A CV is a selling tool for your industry experience. Nothing more, nothing less. If necessary you can talk about your family at the interview – but it doesn

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

Following aspects would a

t do you any favours by discussion them in your CV.

4) Don’t write paragraphs about your previous jobs

CV’s are skimmed and not read by employers. Quite often, good

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

potential candidates are missed out on simply because their appropriate experience couldn’t be found within the thirty seconds used to initially browse a CV for relev

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

ance. Think about it from an employer’s perspective. Would you really have the time to read through hundreds of CV’s from start to finish? The secret to ensuring that

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

your application has every chance of reaching the interview stage is to highlight your employment experience in bullet points. You only need a MAXIMUM of 10 bullet po

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

nts for each job role. Any more, and it would be likely that not all the bullet points will be read. Make sure that you therefore only mention the most important part

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

of your experience about your previous employment.

5) Don’t focus on what you are proud of

It’s so easy to summarise the things that you are most proud of about yo

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

ur previous employment experience. This is an even more pertinent point for more mature individuals. Don’t do it! The only pertinent employment experience to have 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

our CV is experience that’s relevant for the position that you’re applying for. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have any other experience on there. It just means

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

that you shouldn’t focus on what you are proud of. You should focus on what is relevant.

This article is continued in ‘Ten Things NOT To Write In Your CV – Part Two’

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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