The Med-Tech Talent Lab

Let's be real....When it comes to following-up after an interview, most simply just don't know what to do. It usually goes something like this:-Send thank you notes to the interviewers (and most don't even do this).-The thank you notes are usually very generic and light on any substance-If no response after that, usually another "any news" or "hoping to hear" from you type of communication goes ou...

A staggering 59% of professionals don't attempt to negotiate their salaries when presented with an offer by a prospective employer! Yep, you read that right.....On this live episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab we dig into:-Why it's important to negotiate-The items above & beyond base salary that can be negotiated..and most importantly the "how to" for preparing & executing your negotiationC...

The average merit increase year over year historically has been hovering around 2-3%. Yet there are those vastly underpaid against the market rate for their particular scope of expertise, but most don't know how to ask for a raise and GET IT.If you'd like to learn from pro, veteran Headhunters as to tactful and tactical ways you can negotiate your next raise, you won't want to miss this live episo...

Over 90%+ of Med-Tech professionals have at least some version of a LinkedIn profile. Yet, is yours actually doing what it should for you? Are you attracting the right recruiters to view your profile? What about prospective hiring managers? What about ideal networking opportunities? If you believe that there is room to improve upon the layout & content of your current LinkedIn profile, this li...

Have you ever joined an organization that turned out to be vastly different than what was portrayed during the interview? During this live episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, we discussed ways you can properly vet prospective employers dramatically improving the odds that who they say they are, really is who they are when you show up for work! Some of the highlights discussed:-How to vet 'culture'...

During this live episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, we discussed some of the most costly mistakes candidates make during their interviews. With over 50+ years of combined recruitment experience, Adam Saupe, Nick Zweig, and Mitch Robbins share these top mistakes and what you can do to avoid them in your next interview! Some of the highlights include:-Questions that you DO or DON'T ask-Navigating q...

If the last 6-8 months haven't demonstrated that no one's job is "safe" I don't know what will. You could have the best job ever, but it doesn't mean you'll have it forever even if you WANT to. So, how do you build a bullet-proof career strategy, keeping your career destiny in your own hands. That is exactly the premise of this episode. Some of the highlights we discussed:-How to create proactive...

Since the pandemic, there has been the ongoing debates, controversies, and heck, even conspiracy theories surrounding the topic of work environments. When we say work environments we are referring to remote, hybrid, or onsite. Fast forward to today, there is most certainly a huge push from corporate leadership teams to have their employees return back to the office in some capacity. Most are leani...

As a HR or TA professional, one of your biggest headaches, yet also biggest assets is your relationships with 3rd party search agencies, aka Headhunters. Yet, with so many agencies constantly vying for your time and touting how great they are, how exactly do you choose who to spend time with? More importantly, how do you decipher who can deliver the value and results you absolutely need? Joining m...

You've landed the big fish in the boat! That high caliber talent you've feverishly sought out has decided to join your company. Don't blow it with a poor onboarding experience! Your recruitment process doesn't end once a candidate accepts your offer. Rather, then is the time to turn up the "courting" experience. Who is keeping in touch with them between acceptance and start date to ensure they don...

The current state of the Med-Tech employment market is one that is certainly for the books. On one hand you've got organizations pulling hard on the reins and slowing all hiring, some to a complete halt. On the other hand you've got organizations who can't seem to hire fast enough against their "full steam ahead" initiatives. All of this happening under the same Macroeconomy. During this live epis...

Med-Tech Talent has, and will always have, options as to where they choose to work. Just because a candidate is qualified doesn't necessarily mean you should move them through the interview process at lightning speed for fear of someone else making this person an offer. Rather, slow down to speed up. Do you know what motivates this person? Do you know what career growth looks like to them? Do you...

Are you struggling to understand what your hiring manager truly wants in a candidate? Are your hard-won recruits being rejected for interviews with little explanation? In this episode, we are going to help you get exactly what you need at the front end of the hiring process by mastering the art of conducting search intake calls with hiring managers. Joining me for this episode was Mr. Charles Trag...

I think most of us know what the role of Talent Acquisition is within a company, but do you know the difference between a Talent Acquisition professional and a true Talent Advisor? Joining me for this episode was Ms. Haley Burrow, The Talent Acquisition Manager for the Americas at Cochlear, the world's leading hearing implant Med-Tech organization. Haley got her start in recruitment just about 20...

Indeed, Monster, LinkedIn, all were going to change recruitment forever, right? Well, in a way they did. But nothing, literally nothing, will change the recruitment game more than Artificial Intelligence is and will in short order. The way we write job descriptionsHow we source and screen applicants and candidatesHow we interact and interview candidatesHow we move candidates through an interview p...

Let's talk ResumesShall we? What exactly is a "good" resume? What does it look like? Who's in position to say it's "good" or "bad" anyway? Adam Saupe & I (two veteran headhunters) share as many tips, tricks and strategies as we can that we've picked up over the last 15+ years when it comes to drafting a strong resume that Hiring Managers, HR, Talent Acquisition & Headhunters can't help but...

One of the biggest candidate complaints, if not THE biggest, is that of a lack of feedback. Either candidates get very vague feedback, or worse, NONE at all when moving through interview processes. In this case, the saying "any press is good press" is simply not the case. Really ask yourself, how do you want talent to talk about, and think about, your organization in the general marketplace? Becau...

An Applicant Tracking System is a vital component to an organization's recruitment process. ATS options range from as simple as an excel spreadsheet to the finest platform with all the technology bells and whistles. Joining us, like so many times before, was Ms. Shandon Hayes, Talent Acquisition Consultant & Mr. Nick Zweig, Director of Talent Acquisition at Collegium Pharmaceuticals. We levera...

On this live episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, we tackle one of the trickier instances in one’s job search. Let’s say an organization has just made you an offer, but you have two other organizations whom you are still in the interview process with. What do you do? You don’t want to lose the offer, but you don’t want to accept without seeing the other interviews through? How do you balance this s...

What really is networking? How do you do it the "right" way? Moreover, how do you leverage the power of networking to land your next dream job. During this live episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, we pull out all the stops and share actionable strategies (including Scripts!) you can implement straight away to: -Reach out to hiring managers in a way that will spark interest & start conversation...

We were so grateful to have Mr. Karandeep Singh-Badwal, host of The MedTech podcast, and Founder of QRA Medical a consulting organization helping Medical Device companies around the world to achieve Regulatory approval and maintain Quality compliance. Karandeep has been in the RA/QA space for over 9 years working for companies like Nature's Bounty & Abbott amongst others prior to starting his...

During this live episode we bring to you a real-time "State of the Union" on the climate of the current Med-Tech Talent Market. We begin by explaining what the latest salary data tells us with a special thanks to our regularly featured guest, Mr. Nick Zweig, Director of Talent Acquisition at Collegium Pharmaceuticals. We then dig into explaining (to the best of our ability) the state of the talent...

The power of creating content and posting it on LinkedIn is undeniably powerful and tremendously advantageous to a company's overall recruitment strategy. Why? Well, l0ok no further than the core fundamentals of marketing...the Know, Like, & Trust factors. Before we buy anything, we do our best to ensure we know, like and trust who we are buying from and what we are buying, right? Same with re...

Did you know that at the time of writing this some organizations are getting up to 500 applications for a single job? Tens of thousands of layoffs happening across the Country. What are you going to do differently to be seen and heard? More importantly, what strategies other than applying on line (spray your resume and pray the right person gets it) to land your dream job? Join us as we'll share a...

So much of hiring happens in reactive vs proactive fashion. It just is what it is...the nature of the beast. However, there are many opportunities to consistently build your pipelines AHEAD of time so that you don't feel so "behind the 8-ball or flat-footed" each time you need to initiate a search. In this episode we discuss: -How to build a process, a system if you will, to you can leverage time...