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Being unemployed is certainly a setback to your career but it isn’t something you can’t handle successfully.

I've been laid off twice in my career so I know the feeli

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

ng of getting the rug pulled out from underneath you when you become unemployed.

Being unemployed becomes a problem when you start lying about why you became unemploy

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

Examples of combination products may in

d and start inventing stories that you hope will cover up the truth.

Here are some tips to handle the issue of being unemployed.

1. Don’t lie about why you

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

eft your last job.

When you lie about why you left your last job, it inevitably gets discovered and can lead to big problems down the line. If you were fired from

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

your last job but tell a potential employer that you resigned and they find out about it, it could either ruin your chances to get the job or if you have already been

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

Combination pro

ired, could result in you getting fired for lying.

2. Don’t “forget” that you no longer work for the company.

I’ve lost count of how many people have sent me

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

resumes that appear to show that they are still working at a company only to admit during further questioning that they actually left the company several months earlie

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

. If you no longer work for a company, do not make it look like you are still with them by conveniently “forgetting” to include the end date of your employment with th

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

t company in your resume. Why would you lie about something that can (and will be) easily confirmed?

3. Ensure you know how you will discuss the issue of why you a

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

e unemployed.

When you are in an interview, most interviewers will ask why you are unemployed. In most cases they simply want an explanation to ensure that there

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

s a legitimate reason but you can make a mountain out of a molehill if you don’t have a reasonable answer to the question. The best way to answer the question of why y

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

Following aspects would a

ou are unemployed is to keep your answer factual and brief. Don’t ramble on and make it sound like you are feeding them a line.

4. Ensure your references kno

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

why you are unemployed.

I’ve had situations where I was doing a reference check for a person I was helping find a new job and when I asked the reference to conf

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

rm why the person had left their last job (a fairly standard reference question, by the way) they contradicted the reason I’d been given. If the job searcher had told

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

e they left their last job because they were downsized but then the reference tells me they “think” it’s because the job searcher didn’t get along with their boss, som

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

thing is not right. Whatever the reason you left your last job, ensure your references know the reason so they don’t put their foot in your mouth and ruin your

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

hances for a job when discussing why you are unemployed.

Don’t look at being unemployed as being a time to sit at home feeling sorry for yourself, either!

If

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

you are unemployed, use the time to not only look for a new job but to evaluate what you’d really to do next in your career.

Do things that you didn’t have time to do

.

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

while you were working:

spend time with your family and kids
take a short vacation
take a training course.

Being unem

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

loyed is certainly not the end of the world but you just need to remain positive and keep busy to get yourself back in the working world again as quickly as you’d like

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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