What You Need to Know About Salary Negotiations
Preparing a resume and going through the interview process are a breeze as compared with salary negotiations after an employer has made you a job offer. Negotiating an acceptable salary is never easy. As a job seeker, you want the highest salary that you can negotiate based on your qualifications, years of experience etc. In contrast, your prospective new employer would like to hire you at a salary that is commensurate with your credentials and also consistent with industry standards and what similar employees earn at the company. After successful salary negotiations, both the employer and employee should be satisfied with the negotiated compromise that they reached (For those of you who have not realized it yet, all negotiations are compromises–neither party ever gets everything that they wanted at the outset). So, when is it appropriate to discuss salary requirements during the job search process? Continue Reading...
This should not come as a big surprise (especially to the Amgen employees who already know that they will be losing their jobs) but 
Blogging is a very personal and often times, a subjective exercise. That said, there are many bloggers who blog for personal reasons and then there are some bloggers who blog for commercial, advertising or even sensationalistic purposes. I think that Jacob Goldstein who writes the .jpg)
The US Congress is poised this week to pass a new healthcare bill that gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more authority to scrutinize drugs after they reach the market, including power to mandate label changes that warn of new risks. This is good news! 
In an attempt to dispel the notion that it is 
Although industry and academia share a common bond (no pun intended), which is obviously science, the lexicons of these two seemingly similar but parallel worlds are markedly different. For example, do you know what the acronyms IND, NDA, cGMP, cGLP, BLA, CTD, PK or PD stand for? If you cannot decipher any of them, you ought to forget about getting a job in industry and stay in academia. If you know what 95 % or less of them mean, I highly recommend that you get some additional training before applying for your first industrial position. If you are one of the lucky few who recognized and correctly interpreted 100% of the acronyms, you are either working in industry or recently completed some postgraduate training in drug development and regulatory affairs. The point that I am trying to make is that you cannot possibly expect to get a job in industry if can’t speak the language that you need to know in order to succeed! As the old saying goes “You need to learn how to walk before you can run”. .jpg)
The New York Times reported today
Can anything else go wrong at Pfizer? Unfortunately for Pfizer employees, the answer is yes. 
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I have to tip my hat to Merck. I thought it was silly that company executives decided not to settle all of the litigation surrounding the Vioxx debacle. Instead, the company decided to challenge all of the individual Vioxx lawsuits filed against it. That said, the .jpg)
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The Motley Fool published a 
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