[Exclusive Interview] Find Out How This Healthcare-Focussed Recruitment Firm Placed 5000 Professionals Across 15 Nations

Recently, we interacted with Dr. Ganesh Nikam, Managing Director and CEO of Biojobz– An Executive Search Leader for Life Sciences and Healthcare.

Here are the interview highlights:

1. Brief us about your business, its area of expertise, and the services you provide.

 Biojobz is India’s industry leader in Specialised recruitment, Talent consulting and “Executive Search” for the Biotech & Pharmaceutical industry. Over a decade, we have built the largest and the most precise talent mapping tools and database to deliver the fastest matching of job profiles without client’s requirement. Unlike other industries, pharma, biotec and life care industry needs very deep understanding of the scientific and innovation life cycle of a product, industry trends and nuances of organisation culture to able to specific fulfil the precise job requirements at middle and senior level hiring

Key services include senior talent acquisition, industry mapping, recruitment solutions for Indians returning from abroad and turnkey assignments which means recruiting a team from top to bottom for a new unit. The company also specializes in headhunting for roles such as General Management, Engineering & Projects, Supply Chain, quality, strategy, R&D, clinical research and operations.

Dr. Ganesh Nikam, Managing Director and CEO of Biojobz

2. How does Biojobz’s innovative approach help you to strengthen your presence in the existing market?

Our USPs are:

• Unique understanding of science and people movement in the science domain. 
• Quickest response time (TAT) – to make the right candidates match a job requirement.
• Largest database and network of health care professionals built over more than a decade so that the accuracy and speed to deliver assignments are the fastest.
• Deep relationship nurtured over a decade with senior most resources for Leadership and CXO hiring. So, Biojobz has the best candidate conversion ratio.
• Deep knowledge and mapping of the org structure of almost all the major healthcare companies.
• Ready accessible data in a presentable form customized for clients.

3. What are some of the new ideas you would implement to process the hiring of the right talent for any organisation?

Biojobz has innovated in various areas of the recruitment value chain. Since our focus industry needs a lot of actual scientific and technological understanding, we train our recruiters very extensively (almost 2 months) even before they are given their first assignment. Ours is fully automated training of new recruiters with over 100 hours of mandatory training content and 10 tests. and In this process of training, we make sure our new recruiters get on the job awareness at client’s HR premises for a week

On the recruitment end cycle process, we have implemented video interviews taken by our specialised recruiters on the company’s list of questions and then a summarised report with short video summary and highlights sent to our clients. In some senior positions it has reduced the overall process by one months

Continuously updated industry mapping tools with updated compensation structure, designation hierarchy makes life a lot easier for out client when they have finalised compensation and other details about a particular vacancy

4. Tell us about the most recent hiring patterns in the biopharmaceutical sector.

We have seen a large number of KPO businesses coming in the health care sector, we are specialised doctors , paramedics and bio technicians hired to serve customers/hospitals abroad. It has opened a very stable career option for MBBS doctors.

Due to special focus on atmanirbhar bharat initiatives and covid catapulting India’s pharma industry into global mindspace, a lot manufacturing set up around API is coming up, which is also helping us to reduce India’s dependency on China. API manufacturers will be creating a lot pharma-manufacturing jobs in next 2-3 years as well as professional involved in setting up plants/manufacturing units

5. What is your future roadmap for the coming year?

This year, we are geared to cross the 500 recruitment barrier, a huge step in our industry and this is only related to middle and senior level hiring. We want to close at 5 CXO level hiring as well and are already working on two of them for large clients. Biojobz would also open up Middle east next growth market and hopefully we cross double digit hiring there as well