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More than ever, employers want employees who can produce results! Here are five qualities employers seek in such employees.

1. Attitude. You hear a lot about folks with “an

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

attitude”. If you’ve got “an attitude”, lose it! Employers want employees with these attitudes:

* “Can do” attitude
* “I’m willing to risk failing to give it a go” attitude<

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

Examples of combination products may in

r> * “I’m willing to apply myself and learn” attitude

Smart employers hire for attitude and train for skill.

2. Process Thinkers. Doing your work well used to be good

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

enough. Now employers need workers that both do their work well and think about how they do their work simultaneously!

Do you ever perform a task more than once? Do you do

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

t the same way the second time? Shame on you if you do!

Think about what can be done:

* Faster
* With less effort
* Smarter

Then change how you do it. Your employe

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

Combination pro

will love you for it!

3. Problem Solvers. Face it, we consume someone else’s product at work and produce a product for someone else. How well you manage the chain above yo

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

u and support the chain below you effects how well the company works. Employers want folks who know how they affect everyone else’s work and affect it positively.

Communicate clear

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

y what you need from the folks who produce the product you use. Be receptive to the needs of the consumers of your product. You’re all working to accomplish the same goal – make th

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

process as smooth as possible for everyone!

4. Emotional Intelligence. I rode the subway to and from work in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years. If I had a nickel for ever

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

y conversation I overhead about bickering, uncooperative co-workers, I’d never have to work another day in my life!

Employers want employees who are:

Not Judgmental.

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

/u> Give your co-workers the benefit of the doubt. Focus on getting a result or solving the problem at hand. Ask yourself, “Do I know all the facts?” Judging puts you in a

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

Following aspects would a

emotional quagmire. Don’t go there!

Above Hearsay. In court, testimony is inadmissible unless the witness tells what he or she observed with his o

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

r her five senses. Don’t repeat anything that you don’t know first-hand. Build credibility by not taking sides or gossiping. Report only what you know! Don’t speculate!

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

Don’t Project. Psychologists tell us that we see our own faults in others’ behavior. Know yourself and what you don’t like about yourself, and then deal with

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

it outside of work! Don’t project it onto your colleagues.

5. Aligned with the Company. In their book, A Simpler Way, Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kelln

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

er-Rogers posit that we gather in organizations to do work we can’t accomplish alone. But we must make sure our personal life vision is aligned with the vision of the company.

If w

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

can’t support the company’s vision, we withdraw our energy from the company and invest it elsewhere. Neither you nor your employer is well served if you can’t support your employer

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

s mission. Do your homework before, during and after your interview. Check the company website, it’s annual report and anything else you can find about it. If you can’t support th

.

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

e company’s purpose, find one you can support!

Employees with results-driven attitudes, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, emotionally well adjusted and aligned with the

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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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