If you have been laid off from the marketing department of any medical device firm and believe that you will land another job in the same field, be it full time or part-time contract work, perhaps you also believed in the May 21 rapture. Get a clue and find a way to retool. That’s the primary advice of Paula Norbom, founder and president of Talencio, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based staffing company that provides contract professionals to fill various roles in the life sciences industry.The company, which works with 1,200 professionals, most of whom are independent contractors not employed by Talencio, recently changed its name when Norbom became its sole proprietor. Previously it was known as Vallon Life Science.
