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Praxis – Founding CEO Melanie Gentgall will step down from her role in late October with Sally Armstrong appointed as Melanie’s successor. We wish Melanie all the best and congratulate Sally whom we placed in her current role at PRAXIS.

Dimerix – $20M capital raise to fund its phase three Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) trial and manufacturing of DMX 200 to treat the rare kidney disease and COVID-19.
Placed  – Project Manager Drug Development & Associate Clinical Project Manager

Glyscend – first-in-human trials to test the safety of GLY-200, an oral gut restricting therapy for type 2 diabetes. Recruitment for trial has commenced in South Australia.
Placed – Clinical Operations Manager

Bcal Diagnostics – raised $10M in IPO to develop a blood-based breast cancer IVD.
Placed – 2 x Industry Research Scientists

Opyl  – launch of Opin, a global web-based platform that gives patients and healthy volunteers easy access to the world’s leading medical research studies and clinical trials.
Placed – Office Manager

PolyActiva – development of a new Melbourne-based manufacturing facility for their site-specific drug delivery technology. Currently recruiting a Quality Manager to project manage this and oversee QA and the QMS.
Placed – Clinical Development Manager and Commercial Operations & Business Development Associate

Mass Dynamics – mass spectrometry software platform connecting multi-disciplinary life scientists. Congratulations to Susmita Saha for her recent publication acceptance in the Science Direct journal Intelligence. Susmita was recently placed by mexec in the role of Signal Processing Engineer.

Rhinomed – initial order of 1 million Rhinoswabs supplied to NSW Pathology for large scale COVID testing.
Placed – Business Development and Projects Associate

Livac – recently launched their surgical device into the highly-valued US market.
Placed – Office Manager
 
BioCurate – expanded Board and Investment Committee to support next phase of growth.
Placed – Board Member and Investment Committee Member

Millennium Science/Jomar Life Research  –
Very exciting to take another candidate from academia and transition them into industry as their new Applications Scientist. Currently recruiting a Marketing Associate.
Placed – Senior Scientific Sales Representative and Engineer

Genetic Signatures – scaled-up to produce rapid, high through-put screening technology for COVID-19 sample processing. Currently recruiting a Global Marketing Manager.
Placed – Genomics Product Manager and Field Applications Scientist

Industry News

Tell us a bit about what you do.

I help small, high-tech companies navigate the Intellectual Property (IP) landscape. I started as a Patent Attorney but have worked on the corporate side of the fence for about 20 years, for companies ranging from private, through to dual-listed organisations.

As recruiter I review 100s of CVs. Many of them are excellent, however many I see are filled with information that is irrelevant to the role being applied to or don’t provide enough information.

Others have great content but are just really poorly laid out. Full of errors in spelling and grammar that distract from the great content and can make the candidate appear unprofessional.

What has really caused me grief recently though is the surge in Canva formatted CVs. I know I’m not alone and have spoken with many other recruiters and clients that don’t like them.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Canva, I use it all the time. It’s a fabulous graphic design tool for us non-graphic designers. But when putting together your CV, it’s MUCH more important to focus your time and effort on the content and putting your best self forward for the role. Otherwise, how do you stand out from other candidates when your CV looks like everyone else’s!

To read why I would suggest you avoid using a Canva template for your CV, and some tips for improving what goes in your CV, click here.

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Leadership and Culture –  The 13 day jobs of Marilyn Jones

The mexec jobstrategy^TM program is a personalised coaching service. It provides you with the tools to refine your job search strategy and our experienced coaches support you with a plan to go forward with your own effective job search.

“I feel the interview training with Sue really
helped me prepare and relax for the main event.”
 Successful candidate, Senior Project Manager role.

Great to hear that ANDHealth has recently secured the largest single pool of funding for digital health in Australia.

The snappy 10 minute ‘to time’ talks worked really well with a variety of speakers offering a great overview of where the state of play is at the moment in digital health particularly the regulatory, IP and commercial aspects.

Key takeaways from this event were:
– that regulations should not be an impediment and may give you a competitive advantage on your innovation.
– no obvious pathway for reimbursement and not a one size fits all approach.
– we need to see innovation in government policy regarding market access.