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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

60 per cent were ready to go even part-time if it did not affect their career prospects too much. It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. BCD Travels. Rackspace Inc.

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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

employees who use the career community website. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. 2 on the list, is the only retailer to make the chart, along with one company each from the insurance, transportation, energy and travel industries.

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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. I was laid off while attending an MBA program part-time and I decided to go full-time to complete my degree.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Two Words to Help You Gut Check Your Career

Harvard Business Review

I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. It engages my mind. I felt pretty good.

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Why More Cities Should Offer Summer Jobs for Teens

Harvard Business Review

For some teens, working has been replaced by other activities such as coding camps, preparing for academic tests, or travel — all of which look good on a college application. To what degree did the program’s formal career readiness training enhance outcomes? in August 1978. Teen employment has fallen for two reasons.

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A New Way to Network Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Participants select a date — or dates — when they are free for lunch and choose one of the company cafeterias they're willing to travel to. But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.