The Talent Crisis: How To Improve Recruitment And Retain Biopharma Employees

What Does It Take To Hire And Keep People In A Competitive Market?

Job candidates have the upper hand right now, but recruiters, investors and employers say there are ways to attract, elevate and retain qualified candidates beyond just paying higher salaries.

The amount of money invested in the biopharmaceutical industry in recent years has created more new companies than there are experienced executives to run them, so the recruitment of key talent has become more competitive than ever. Recruiters, investors and drug developers are learning what it takes to stand out when start-ups are competing with growth-mode firms while at the same time big pharma is dipping into the same talent pool to build teams around new products.

The flood of venture capital into new biopharma companies and the rising wave of initial public offerings to fund growing...