The Science of Talent by BioTalent Canada

The Science of Talent by BioTalent Canada

Accessing (and keeping) talent in today’s biotechnology sector isn’t easy. There’s no question that biotech, life sciences, and the medical field in general experienced massive acceleration since March 2020. More treatments have been approved, biotech investment reached record heights, and thousands of new companies entered the landscape, heralding unprecedented growth in just about every aspect of the sector – bio health, bioenergy, bio-industrial, and agri-bio.In this podcast, Rob Henderson, the CEO of BioTalent Canada, examines the latest labour market reports, labour market research, and shares success stories with other leaders in the biotech sector.It’s a fast moving, ever evolving field and finding and retaining the right people needs to be at the forefront.

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April 18, 2023 36 mins

Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) was launched to solve a big challenge. Commercialization within the life sciences. There’s a general lack of understanding of the technical and scientific capacity needed for a life sciences company to commercialize in Canada. API sought to fix that.

 

Part incubat...

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Bishop Water Technologies is rapidly growing in Canada. Dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, low energy solutions for solids management, it’s a team that has worked for two decades to develop and optimize affordable technologies.


So it may be surprising to hear CEO Kevin Bossy say technical skills have to take a back seat compared to a...

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March 21, 2023 51 mins

The entrepreneurial mindset was introduced early to Ronen Benin by his parents. They had moved to Canada with degrees that weren’t recognized. So they taught him, if you’re going to build something, make sure you are always build something for yourself too. He never forgot that.

 

Today Ronen is the foun...

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Life Sciences BC CEO Wendy Hurlburt remembers the surge started with a spirit of collaboration just as COVID was beginning to impact the world. Then came the talent crunch that forced many members in BC to find creative ways to keep their operations open.


The Metro-Vancouver bio economy has some 1,300 organizations which collectively employ about 16,000 people. Three quarters of those companies have fewer than 20 full-time staf...

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PEI has become somewhat of a Mecca for the Bio Tech industry in Canada. And the biggest one is BIOVECTRA. 


It’s a company adding new team members seemingly every day having blossomed to over 600 in both PEI and Nova Scotia (and most of that growth during a global pandemic). 


For two consecutive ...

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If your job involves recruitment of talent, you know the name Brunel.


In this episode Angelina Brathwaite, a Senior Client Partner with global network Brunel, shares what their offices are seeing when it comes to recruitment of talent in the life sciences.

 

Anessa is a software company specializing in biogas projects including anaerobic digestions. It’s headquartered in New Brunswick. They’re actively trying to recruit from the biogas side but in Atlantic Canada that’s a challenge.


One thing Anessa did right away was adopt the principles of diversity and inclusion into their recruitment practices...

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November 17, 2022 1 min
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One of the founders of Clean Slate UV is a self-professed “Germaphobe.” It’s that kind of awareness that led to a company that created patented UV technology and intelligent software to solve, among other problems:


Smartphones are the third hand we never wash!


Clean Slate leverages the power of UV-C ...

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There’s a song by Drake that goes “Started from the bottom – now we’re here.”

That could be Ryan Saranchuk’s career theme song at Applied Biological Materials.


In this episode Ryan shares ABM’s approach to recruiting and retaining talent for the successful company. And he’s a poster board for the pot...

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Episode two of The Science of Talent focuses on the Agri-Bio subsector with Jacqueline Keena of EMILI. The Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of the digital agriculture eco system in Manitoba and across the prairies. It was created to prepare and empower the Manitoba economy to leverage digital disruption.


Bio Tech companies are committed to the business of science. It’s what we do every day. But there’s another commitment they’re engrossed in… attracting and retaining talented people.


It’s an industry undergoing dramatic change with forecasts indicating the number of jobs will soon outnumber candidates by a ratio of four. So, what are Biotech le...

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