Healthcare & Life Sciences
Widely regarded as one of the most intricate industries to recruit in, the healthcare and life sciences sector combines leading-edge research and innovation with a massive sales and distribution apparatus. Despite being considered recession-proof, the sector now faces new challenges with governments reducing health spending across the world, shorter patent periods and the inevitable appetite for enhanced or new products.

Challenges
Perhaps the biggest talent challenge faced by organisations in the healthcare and life sciences sector is knowing enough about the industry itself to find the right candidate for the intricate, complex and sophisticated research and development area. With R&D the sole provider of the products which generate revenues for organisations, there’s incredible pressure on the hiring community to locate the right people for the right project to create the right products. And highly qualified candidates are very difficult to identify, let alone locate, attract, onboard and retain the business support area poses fewer challenges, but the appetite for top talent remains undiminished.
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Credentials
Healthcare and life sciences is considered an emerging market across the entire outsourced recruitment spectrum, and we’ve been working with several organisations in this sector since 2007.
Solutions
To recruit the calibre of people that will drive projects and performance, you need an industry insider. Our recruitment teams for healthcare and life sciences organisations include exactly that – recruiters who’ve not only recruited within the industry, but who themselves have science-related backgrounds. Their expertise and insight ensures that AMS knows where to find the right candidate, and how to approach and engage with potential employees. More importantly, our teams develop talent pipelines by engaging in dialogue and building relationships with strong candidates on behalf of our clients.
Social media recruitment is a strong channel for recruiting in this sector, and our in-house communications agency has developed strategies for clients that leverage social networks and provide additional methods of locating candidates.
Outside of the research and development area, our resourcing teams work cross-sector, finding the best candidate in the market rather than just those on the market. As sales, commercials and marketing disciplines are similar cross-sector, our talent teams work to find talent from other sectors, helping drive quality over and above that expected by our customers.
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