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 Henderso ...
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Commercializing the Academic Research – and Managing Substantial Growth
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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 needed for a life sciences company to commercialize in Canada. API sought to fix that. Part incubator, part R&D, API helps companies scale up here…
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Attitude is More Important Than Technical Skills
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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 optimize affordable technologies. So it may be surprising to hear CEO Kevin Bossy say technical skills have to take a back seat compared to attitu…
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Disruption to Make the World Better
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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 sure you are always build something for yourself too. He never forgot that. Today Ronen is the founder and CEO of a number of companies now such a…
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The Surging Growth of Life Sciences in BC
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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 operations open. The Metro-Vancouver bio economy has some 1,300 organizations which collectively employ about 1…
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Forward-Thinking. Forward-Acting. BIOVECTRA
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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 members seemingly every day having blossomed to over 600 in both PEI and Nova Scotia (and most of that growth during a global pandemic). For two consecutive years the company has been named one of Canada’s Top 100…
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Brunel Shares its Recruitment and Diversity Strategies
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If your job involves recruitment of talent, you know the name Brunel. In this episode Angelina Brathwaite, a Senior Client Partner with global network Brunel, shares what their offices are seeing when it comes to recruitment of talent in the life sciences. Is it better to have niche skills right now or a higher education? Are employees being realis…
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The Powerful Benefits of Diversity
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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 Canada that’s a challenge. One thing Anessa did right away was adopt the principles of diversity and inclusion into their recruitment practices. Co-…
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The Science of Talent Podcast Trailer
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Oleh social@biotalent.ca (BioTalent Canada)
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Clean Slate UV’s Approach to Solving Two Staffing Issues – Attraction + Diversification
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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 problems: Smartphones are the third hand we never wash! Clean Slate leverages the power of UV-C light to inactivate some of the most resilient ba…
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Scientific (and Talent) Discoveries at Applied Biological Materials Inc.
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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 Materials. In this episode Ryan shares ABM’s approach to recruiting and retaining talent for the successful company. And he’s a poster board for the potential within the company having started as a co-…
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Growing the Digital Ag Eco-System AND Leaving No One Behind
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Episode two of The Science of Talent focuses on the Agri-Bio subsector with Jacqueline Keena of EMILI. The Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of the digital agriculture eco system in Manitoba and across the prairies. It was created to prepare and empower the Manitoba economy to leverage…
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Biotechnology – One Part Science, Two Parts Human Resources
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Bio Tech companies are committed to the business of science. It’s what we do every day. But there’s another commitment they’re engrossed in… attracting and retaining talented people. It’s an industry undergoing dramatic change with forecasts indicating the number of jobs will soon outnumber candidates by a ratio of four. So, what are Biotech leader…
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