Pharma Industry and Doctors – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #699 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #699 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Alena Darmel Photo Credit: Antoni Shkraba Photo Credit: Karolina Gabrowska This series of posts gives ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a fair number of people in various departments.  Doctors Doctors have long been associated with Pharma Industry. Several of them started their own pharmaceutical industries internationally, and in Pakistan; but they are not our focus in this post. We shall focus on the opportunities that become available to doctors. Like pharmacists,

Opportunities in Pharma Industry for New Graduates – Pharmacists – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #698 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #698 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Cottonbro Photo Credit: Gustavo Fring This series of posts gives ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a fair number of people in various departments.  Pharmacists We may think that Pharmacists and Pharmaceuticals probably have the oldest relationship, but it is not true. Chemists were in the vanguard for developing, refining, and producing pharmaceutical products starting in the 19th century, or even earlier. Use of natural medicines

Opportunities in Pharma Industry for New Graduates – Management Sciences 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #697 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #697 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Pixabay Photo Credit: Tom Fisk This series of posts gives ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a fair number of people in various departments.  We take up two other majors offered in Management Sciences. Finance Historically, the ‘munshi’ kept the accounting record. A typical munshi in the old movies/plays would be a middle-aged guy, with a round-frame reading glasses on his nose, a register or papers under his arm, and a se

Opportunities in Pharma Industry for New Graduates – Management Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #696 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #696 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Cottonbro Photo Credit: Negative Space This series of posts gives ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a fair number of people in various departments.  In the last post, we talked about physical sciences, particularly chemistry. Another branch of sciences is Management Sciences. BS Management Sciences offers majors in Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain. BBA – Bachelor Business Administration is also

Opportunities in Pharma Industry for New Graduates – Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #695 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #695 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. I am starting this series of posts in which I shall give ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. The need has been identified by ‘Scientific Pakistan’, an organization which is supporting the youth in developing their skills and securing their future. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a large number of people in various departments. There are upward of 800 manufacturing units of various sizes. Pakistani people consume about 1,000 billion rupees worth of medicines in a year, the money spe

Four Tips from Great People – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #694 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Bruce Feiler Steve Jobs This article is inspired by a June 2022 article by Bruce Feiler. The link to the article appears at the end. BRUCE FEILER is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama series COUNCIL OF DADS on NBC. Bruce’s three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times. His new book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change At Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate life's growing number of trans

Flood Relief Efforts – Need for Coordination 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #693 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #693 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Aqib Shahid Photo Credit: Hamza Awan Normally, I confine myself to professional topics, but the flood situation is grave and affects all of us, hence these posts. As I write this post, the flooding is still at high alert. For example, Dadu and Bhan Saeedabad cities are facing the danger of getting flooded. The death toll has risen to 1486 with 536 children. The estimate of damage has escalated to US$ 30 billion according to Reuters.  Pakistani people are generally good at heart, and usually rise to the occasion to help. However, this help may not alwa

Flood Relief Efforts – Need for Coordination 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #692 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #692 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Normally, I confine myself to professional topics, but the flood situation is grave and affects all of us, hence these posts. Massive floods have wreaked havoc with lives, livestock, crops, and infrastructure on a huge scale. With a cursory look, we may not be able to grasp the severity of the situation. Some statistics may help to understand the extent of damage. • Around 80 districts have been declared as “calamity hit” by the National Flood Response Coordination Center.  • About one third of the country is inundated with flood water  • Over 33 million peop

Leadership is About People – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #691 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #691 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Tarazevich Photo Credit: Mohamed Abdelghaffar Pakistan is passing through the most difficult stage of its existence, and as I see in my lifetime, which is quite long. It is about the floods which are still ravaging most part of the country. It is also about people who have made a few showpiece bags for photoshoot at flood sites and are all over the social media. It is about people who have put up fake collection stalls for flood affectees, with the clear intention of embezzling it. It is about visits of various leaders whose protocol makes flood victims lives more m

Employee Engagement – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #690 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #690 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Ron Lach Sum Up and Recommendations for Improving Employee Engagement In the preceding posts, I have presented evidence from multiple sources which not just shows the importance, but also quantifies the gains and losses. It is established beyond any doubt that having an engaged workforce is a winning proposition. The argument against this evidence may be that even those organizations who have poor record on engagement also keep growing. It is a fair argument to the extent of outcome, however, what is not mentioned is the wastage of resource

Employee Engagement – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #689 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #689 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SITUATION IN PAKISTAN We may not have as many detailed statistics available for Pakistan, but based on long experience in various organizations, interactions with many other people and corporates, we understand that employee engagement is not a priority agenda in Pakistan. The problem is seen on both sides: the employers do not want to invest money and paid time on such activities; and the employees are not highly motivated either. There are generational differences also, where older generations find employee engagement unnecessary, and younger generations promot