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Well done – you’ve been invited to an interview. But here’s the rub. They’ve told you that they use “competency based interviewing”. How should you prepa

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

re?

First, it helps to understand a little about this technique and why employers use it. In a traditional interview, the interviewer will ask you questio

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

Examples of combination products may in

ns designed to let you show that you have the skills and knowledge needed to do the job. However, it is also important that you fit in with the team, and w

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

th the employer’s culture and style. A competency-based interview is designed to ask you additional questions about your character, soft skills and persona

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

l attributes that let both you and the employer determine whether you fit their needs. These are called “behavioural competencies”.

This is in your intere

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

Combination pro

ts – you wouldn’t want to work in a place where you stick out like a sore thumb.

A competency-based interview will spend about half the interview on your j

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

ob skills, and about half on your behavioural competencies. The interviewer will assess these by looking for evidence of how you have acted in real situati

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

ns in the past. Here are some steps to help you to prepare for the interview, and advice to keep in mind when you are actually at the interview.

Before th

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

e interview:

1. List out all your attributes and characteristics that you think will be important both to you and to a future employer. For example, are y

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

u good at handling detail or are you a strategic thinker? Are you good at creative problem-solving or do you develop and follow careful procedures? Are yo

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

u a logical thinker or are you intuitive?

2. For each attribute, think about one or two real situations in your current or recent jobs which demonstrate ho

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

Following aspects would a

w you have used this attribute. The interviewer will want real evidence of what you did to prove that you have this attribute, so having some prepared befo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e you get to the interview will show that you have thought ahead, and will save you from those dreaded “mind’s gone blank” moments.

At the interview:

1. B

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

e honest about your attributes. If you were to convince an employer that you love precise detail because that’s what they are looking for, when really you

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

re a big-picture person, you would soon be caught out once you’d started the job.

2. Take time to think before you give your example. Don’t just rush in wi

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

th one of your prepared situations if it doesn’t show that you have what they’re looking for. Ask yourself whether this is the best example you can think of

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

to illustrate the attribute they are interested in.

3. Be willing to ask the interviewer to clarify. If they ask you a vague or ambiguous question, rather

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

than asking them “what do you mean?” you could say “do you mean such-and-such?” and show that you have at least tried to interpret what they’ve said.

4.

.

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

ake time to ask the interviewer about the environment and the people. This process is as much about you evaluating their attributes as the other way round.

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Most of all, take a deep breath, relax, smile and show that you know your own strengths and are prepared to illustrate them with real examples. Good luck

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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