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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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What Recruiters Forecast For Tech Hiring In 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

HackerEarth’s 2021 State of Developer Recruitment Report is based on survey data from around 2,500 engineering managers and HR professionals from 79 countries; across industries including technology, pharmaceutical, retail, automobile, construction, banking, media, finance, and insurance.

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J&J’s Jim Swanson brings mission-driven leadership to the CIO role

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Jim Swanson’s career path to CIO of Johnson & Johnson didn’t begin in technology, or even healthcare. He started out as a scientist, working his way up the research and development ranks in the pharmaceutical industry, an experience steeped in curiosity that has helped shape his emphasis on continuous learning to this day.

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Medable reaches $2.1B valuation as Tiger, Blackstone, GSR pump new capital into clinical trials management company

TechCrunch

Medable’s software-as-a-service connects patients, trial sites and clinical trial teams to streamline the design, recruitment, retention and data quality of trials in a way that makes them accessible to anyone anywhere. At the time, the technology was small, and people were trying to work through the regulatory factors.

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54gene CEO steps down as the company looks to cut more jobs

TechCrunch

The layoffs affected employees, mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) recruited to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020 to complement its flagship product: a biobank of the African genome. I will continue to support the company and the scientific ecosystem, particularly the African genomics ecosystem.

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

N2Growth Blog

As the sector evolves and expands, companies increasingly turn to executive search firms like N2Growth to help them identify and recruit top talent for critical leadership roles. The life sciences industry is known for its unique challenges in recruiting and hiring.

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African genomics startup 54gene lays off 95 as COVID testing business struggles

TechCrunch

Founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong, the three-year-old startup seeks to address the gap in the global genomics market where less than 3% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is African. Other operational and technology jobs were affected as well.

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