Our guide, A Career in Contracting, offers those considering the challenge of becoming a contractor or consultant an informative insight on what to expect when making the change. We cover the benefits, challenges, experience required and essential details to help you begin a career contracting.
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A Career in Contracting
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Global Job Confidence Index 2021
10 months agoThe annual EPM Global Job Confidence Index aims to measure the beating heartbeat of the life sciences labor market, their confidence in the economy, securing or finding a job, compensation and bonus, flexible working patterns, and whether the bull-bear factors in employment have altered.
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Employee Job Confidence: Is the Grass Greener?
11 months agoAs we look ahead to global recovery and relaunch, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cast a shadow on many countries and plague economic activity. The Life Sciences sector is a crucial pillar, supporting a wave of economic growth and plugging the gap to solve world health challenges. To continue innovating and fuelling economic activity post-pandemic, the sector needs a str...
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The Virtual Recruitment Landscape: Reset and Reboot
12 months agoThe historical events of the past year made most firms pivot and re-evaluate their talent acquisition processes. Despite the resetting of traditional workplace rules, on the back of many businesses continuing to limit travel and in-person collaboration, what can be said for the virtual recruitment landscape then? At EPM Scientific, a subsidiary brand of the Phaidon Inter...
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How to Avoid Bias in Job Descriptions
about 1 year agoThere is overwhelming evidence that companies with diverse workforces perform better on every possible metric, with diversity positively impacting every level of a business, from the cleaning staff to the board of directors. Bringing in as many perspectives, working styles and experience as possible to a workplace leads to integration, success and growth to those businesses ...
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The Workplace Evolution
about 1 year agoAs many businesses are finally reopening their doors, the life sciences workplace will be virtually unrecognizable. What short and long-term impact will the pandemic have on the workplace? How will these changes affect talent? While the global pandemic will inevitably result in long term transformations to the form and function of the workspace, the short term will mostly b...
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Top Trends to Improve your ED&I Strategy
about 1 year agoThe global relevance of equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I), as a business value and organizing principle, remains a key concern for recruiters and many organizations. ED&I is a powerful enabler of innovation and growth; companies that lead with this progressive course of action, not only address systemic barriers, but drive impactful change within all areas of ...
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5 Self-Care Practices that Put Your Mental Health First
about 1 year agoIn light of the anxiety and stress caused by the global health crisis and its fallout, it’s no wonder that many have felt the weight of the past twelve months on their shoulders. Social isolation, video call fatigue, and an increase in employee burnout are some of the driving factors impacting the lives of so many this year. Whether you are struggling to stay motivated, fe...
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Talent Moves: Locate and Relocate
about 1 year agoWorkforce flexibility, employee wellbeing, and the rise of technology dominated talent topics last year and continues to be a focal point for 2021. There is a discussion concerning talent mobility that, in many ways, may have been swept under the carpet on the back of the global pandemic. This raises the question, has the pandemic halted the movement of talent through the l...
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Performance Over Presence
about 1 year agoAt the beginning of 2020, many life science companies were firmly thrust into a remote working trajectory, a watershed year for digital transformation within the workplace. For the past year, the high-speed mass adoption of flexible working required employers to redefine and re-examine the workplace. If flexible agility, clinical trial innovations, and bioinformatics a...
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Locked Down and Upskilled
about 1 year agoThe global health crisis caused by Covid-19 has resulted in many becoming accustomed to spending endless time at home. With the days blending seamlessly into the next, how have individuals made productive use of this time during local lockdowns and periods of self-isolation? Some have utilised this new-found time to prioritise self-care, rediscover a particular passion, or ...
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Virtual Panel Talk: The Effect of the Pandemic on Productivity in Life Sciences
over 1 year agoAhead of International Women’s Day, we invited female industry experts to gain insights on how they have managed the pandemic as leaders and what long-term effects we can expect in their field. Hosted by Isabel Kennedy, the panel discussed recent changes to the industry and how this affects productivity in different areas of life sciences.
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2020 Reflections: Looking Back to Move Forward
over 1 year agoIt’s tempting to enter 2021 with blind optimism, eager to put the challenges of 2020 behind us. However, to learn as much as possible from the adversities we all faced last year, we’d like to suggest that we begin 2021 with a brief period of reflection.
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BioNTech Recognises EPM Scientific (part of Phaidon International) as Key Support Partner for Covid-19 Vaccine
over 1 year agoPhaidon International, the parent brand of EPM Scientific, is honoured to be recognised for its part in BioNTech's journey towards a successful vaccine against Covid-19.The German-based biotechnology company who was the first to bring a successful vaccine against Covid-19 to market, acknowledges key partners in making this historic achievement possible.Ugur Sahin, CEO and ...
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EPM Scientific at Virtual.MEDICA 2020
over 1 year agoEPM Scientific exhibited at this year's MEDICA Trade Fair, taking place entirely online as virtual.MEDICA 2020The world-leading information and communication platform for the medical technology industry took place from 16 to 19 November 2020, and for the first time in its history it was held fully virtually due to the ongoing pandemic.Thousands of medical technology prof...
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The Work-Life Rebalance
over 1 year agoWe are at a crossroads. The health and wellbeing of the workforce has never been more closely intertwined with the state of the economy.The public health crisis caused by Covid-19 has forced operational change and reflection on the way that people organize and work. Global lockdowns have meant that many companies have shifted to remote working – where they are able to – res...
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Why Flexible Working is No Longer a Benefit
almost 2 years agoFlexible working has been a growing trend for many years; with the outbreak of COVID-19, this trend has reached its tipping point. For many employers, flexible working arrangements have been the only way to handle the unprecedented challenges the pandemic brought about; with 78% of workers now saying they want increased flexibility in their work moving forward, it will b...
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Job Confidence Index 2020
almost 2 years agoIn this complex social and economic climate, it can be hard to understand how current and prospective employees are feeling and thinking. Thanks to our expansive network, we are able to gauge the sentiment and aspirations of the life sciences workforce in Europe, and share that vital information with you. The EPM Scientific Job Confidence Index 2020 is a new annual report th...
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How to Avoid a Talent Exodus Post-Pandemic
almost 2 years agoNobody yet knows what the legacy of COVID-19 will be. HR and recruitment experts are increasingly concerned businesses which do survive this period will face a further crisis in the shape of talent acquisition and retention in ‘the new normal’.Anxiety about the workforce is not new: a recent PWC study found 80% of CEOs are either extremely or somewhat concerned about thei...
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Working from Home is the Key to Diversity
almost 2 years agoThe Covid-19 pandemic has put working-from-home firmly on the agenda. A recent poll by Phaidon International found that 81% of the life sciences workforce want their employer to continue offering working-from-home flexibility. However, 1 in 5 employees believe their employer would reject any attempt to negotiate a more flexible working arrangement. Organizations who respo...
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