Talent Drives Growth

​The unprecedented global pandemic certainly gripped the Life Sciences industry. Pharmaceutical, healthcare, and biotech companies have been at the front line of managing the crisis. While vaccine manufacturing and virus testing brought the prospect of light at the end of a dark tunnel, the fundamentals of how to compete for talent in this new landscape are a bottleneck facing Life Sciences organizations today. In a post-pandemic business climate that is plentiful in opportunity, coupled with the competitive market for high caliber talent, it is crucial for Life Sciences companies to understand how to attract, retain, and secure talent in a candidate-driven market. The annual EPM Scientific Global Job Confidence Index 2021 surveyed an industry-leading network of over 900 Life Sciences professionals from around the world. The index captures the sentiments of the labor market, their confidence in the economy, finding or retaining a job, job satisfaction, compensation and bonus, flexible working models, relocation, and whether motivation factors in employment have changed.  

The special Forbes feature, in partnership with our parent company Phaidon International, raises prominent questions: what are the major factors driving the talent challenge and how can life sciences organizations implement key strategies to weather the approaching talent storm?

While it’s easy to see hobbies as a simple way to pass the time, they may however, be translated into essential workplace skills or leveraged in an interview.

​At EPM Scientific, we value initiatives that advance diversity in the Life Sciences industry around the world. We believe in our role in driving gender equality and actively providing women with equal opportunities for career progression. With this year's theme ‘Choose to Challenge’, we're inviting you to join us in celebrating female achievements and choosing to challenge the status quo.

​​Rather than making a New Year’s Resolution this year, perhaps more can be achieved by reflecting on the challenges of 2020 and how those experiences will shape 2021 and beyond.

​How will our choices today affect the future of work? Which path should be taken to ensure work-life balance? At EPM Scientific, these are the questions that have defined our daily conversations with clients, candidates, and our global workforce. Our new report, "The Work-Life Rebalance", offers business leaders another perspective before setting the cornerstone.

​​As businesses prepare to recover and relaunch, high-quality employees are more essential than ever. Yet, the lockdown period has given many workers a new level of clarity about their work-life dynamic. The result could be a talent exodus.

​Working-from-home will endure after the Covid-19 pandemic has passed. Discover the five soft skills you will need to succeed and how to improve them.