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Many professional resume writers strongly recommend including an objective statement on your resume. I agree...under one condition. It has to b

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

e so good that it reaches out and COMPELS the reader to call you for an interview. Most aren't.

If you're interviewing a prospective resume wr

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

Examples of combination products may in

iter (and you should definitely interview them before hiring them), ask him for a respresentative object statement from his porfolio. Is it com

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

pelling to you? What's compelling to you might not be compelling to somebody else, but what's NOT compelling to you probably wouldn't excite an

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

body else.

If you came to me asking for help on your resume (and people have done that frequently), I would counsel you to avoid an objective

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

Combination pro

statement. Instead I'd recommend you use a summary statement instead.

What's that?

It's a compelling marketing tool that outlines your big-ti

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

cket, attention-grabbing accomplishments and skills. You might call it the cover letter at the start of your resume.

A summary statement shoul

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

d do what your cover letter is designed to do: compel an interview. Period. If a person reads your laser-focused, compelling cover letter, then

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

moves to your resume to see if this too-good-to-be-true person is real, the first thing he should see is an equally strong opening. If he doesn

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

't, the anticlimax can be extreme.

Here's the summary statement I used to use on my IT Manager resume (a LONG time ago):

"Results-oriented so

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

ftware developer and consulting project manager with six years experience at a Big 5 firm. Experienced OO developer, with particular expertise

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

Following aspects would a

in Java and Extreme Programming (XP). Over seven years experience developing software and managing projects in challenging, fast-paced consulti

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

g environments. Demonstrated ability to acquire technical knowledge and skills rapidly. Innovative problem solver, able to see the business and

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

technical sides of a problem. Proven leadership skills. Highly effective skills in negotiation and problem resolution. Exceptional communicati

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

on skills, both oral and written."

I sounded pretty good!

Before you go reusing that, let me tell you a couple things I've learned since then

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

A summary statement should contain actual, quantified accomplishments, if possible. Mine didn't.
The paragraph should be

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

relatively short, followed by a bulleted list of accomplishments in balanced columns. Mine failed that test as well.

A summary should

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

highlight your absolutely compelling skills (about three) above the paragraph as sort of a "headline". Nope, didn't have that.

My

.

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

content was pretty good, but my presentation left a lot to be desired.

If you have a compelling summary statement, presented in a compelling

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

way, and backed up by compelling detail in the rest of your resume, I'd be surprised if you don't get a phone call.

Copyright (c) by Roy Mille

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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