The Science of Talent by BioTalent Canada
Accessing (and keeping) talent in today’s biotechnology sector isn’t easy. There’s no question that biotech, life sciences, and the medical field in general experienced massive acceleration since March 2020. More treatments have been approved, biotech investment reached record heights, and thousands of new companies entered the landscape, heralding unprecedented growth in just about every aspect of the sector – bio health, bioenergy, bio-industrial, and agri-bio.In this podcast, Rob Henderson, the CEO of BioTalent Canada, examines the latest labour market reports, labour market research, and shares success stories with other leaders in the biotech sector.It’s a fast moving, ever evolving field and finding and retaining the right people needs to be at the forefront.
Episodes
12 episodes
Commercializing the Academic Research – and Managing Substantial Growth
Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) was launched to solve a big challenge. Commercialization within the life sciences. There’s a general lack of understanding of the technical and scientific capacity n...
Attitude is More Important Than Technical Skills
Bishop Water Technologies is rapidly growing in Canada. Dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, low energy solutions for solids management, it’s a team that has worked for two decades to develop and o...
Disruption to Make the World Better
The entrepreneurial mindset was introduced early to Ronen Benin by his parents. They had moved to Canada with degrees that weren’t recognized. So they taught him, if you’re going to build something, make s...
The Surging Growth of Life Sciences in BC
Life Sciences BC CEO Wendy Hurlburt remembers the surge started with a spirit of collaboration just as COVID was beginning to impact the world. Then came the talent crunch that forced many members in BC to find creative ways to keep their opera...
Forward-Thinking. Forward-Acting. BIOVECTRA
PEI has become somewhat of a Mecca for the Bio Tech industry in Canada. And the biggest one is BIOVECTRA. It’s a company adding new team...
Brunel Shares its Recruitment and Diversity Strategies
If your job involves recruitment of talent, you know the name Brunel.In this episode Angelina Brathwaite, a Senior Client Partner with global...
The Powerful Benefits of Diversity
Anessa is a software company specializing in biogas projects including anaerobic digestions. It’s headquartered in New Brunswick. They’re actively trying to recruit from the biogas side but in Atlantic Can...
Clean Slate UV’s Approach to Solving Two Staffing Issues – Attraction + Diversification
One of the founders of Clean Slate UV is a self-professed “Germaphobe.” It’s that kind of awareness that led to a company that created patented UV technology and intelligent software to solve, among other ...
Scientific (and Talent) Discoveries at Applied Biological Materials Inc.
There’s a song by Drake that goes “Started from the bottom – now we’re here.”That could be Ryan Saranchuk’s career theme song at Applied Biological Mate...