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Executive Storytelling – how to bring your leadership to the next level

I bet you remember the story of two young engineers in a garage and how they created Apple. I bet you can even picture them, remember the names and have tied some characteristics (like innovative, outside the box and creative) to this story. That in a nutshell is proof of the effectiveness of storytelling in a business context. And that is why you need storytelling as a leadership ability. You need to be able to lead with stories. And you need to know how to do that.What stor

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Announcing our first industry topic – GenSearch Germany Business Reception Berlin

When we started out with our networking event at the eve of Bionnale last year, we mainly focused on a nice little get-together for people to get in touch and make valuable connections with each other. Encouraged by the success of the event last year, we want to continue and enhance this activity. This year we not only want to gather around executives and decision-makers from the life sciences industry but we also want to provide something we value very highly ourselves: industry topics.<strong style="background-color: tr

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Executive Search in Life Sciences - balancing industry knowledge and management skills

What makes executive search in life sciences special is certainly the diversity of the positions. We are talking about a field that covers a wide range of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Looking at the research and development departments in these sectors alone makes on thing clear: it does not get boring! Often it is also about finding candidates who have both industry expertise and the necessary "soft skills" for a position in management. That is a challenge!Each sea

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MedTech in Europe and the continuously high demand for high-level talent

Life Sciences consist of a variety of very interesting fields with another big variety of innovative companies and ideas in each of these fields. Just the MedTech sector alone has produced impressive numbers in the last years that stand for a significant level of growth, innovation and potential. And with that potential comes the demand for talent. But let’s look at the numbers first.MedTech Europe regularly reports an interesting collection of data from the MedTech industry, which they p

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Be known in your industry – why it matters (especially in executive search)

Sometimes we get asked why we spend so much effort on articles like this one and all the other things we do in social networking on- and offline. Why we go to events like Biocom, MedTech Forum and and also happily organize our own events and what our LinkedIn, Twitter, Xing and Content Hubs are all about. Yes, it seems like a lot of work - and it is – but it ultimately leads to a certain visibility and recognition for the content we provide. Knowing your way around the industry is not worth much, as long as nobody knows about it.<sp

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Value in Healthcare: The Patients Perspective

Today, patients and carers are taking more and more responsibility for their health and are progressively demanding more patient centric services. They are increasingly demanding to be given the tools to manage their own health.Global healthcare systems are confronted with major challenges when tackling chronic disease. Amongst the long-term conditions doctors treat, diabetes places one of the greatest burdens on health services. The number of patients with the disease is rapidly increasi

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What a happy candidate is worth

As a headhunter you always work as a middleman between two sides that don’t need to start out with having all too much in common. Especially in high-level positions it’s a delicate and sometimes lengthy process to find the right person for the job. It requires a great deal of consideration and also trust. From both sides. Obviously the “customer” that pays for the service of executive search is the one to satisfy but in the end the search is only entirely successful when both sides are happy. This is why we put particular emphasis on very positiv

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Time to meet in person! Where we are 2017

As much as we love exploring all the fascinating possibilities of digital communication and social media, we still value meeting people face-to-face just as much. Even if we start a lot of conversations online, we like to pursue them further or finish them with an actual real-life interaction. Especially since we deal so much with fitting personalities into high-level positions, we need to get a really good sense of people. And not least, we simply like to meet new people and network.<span style="background-color: transpa

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