Employer resources

In the United States, an organization’s culture has been at the forefront of talent attraction and employee engagement initiatives for more than a decade.

For BioSpace’s recent Ideal Employer report, life sciences professionals weighed in on the topic.

Happy employees mean a productive company. In order to attract top-notch job candidates, leave the following behaviors behind.

The key to retaining your employees is to keep them happy and fulfilled in their positions, but what is important to one person can be vastly different than that of another. So how do you retain your top talent?

When it comes to specific attributes, having the opportunity to do interesting and meaningful work, securing a competitive salary and having access to quality health benefits were the most important. Here are some differences when it comes to generational priorities.

Hiring top talent in the life sciences industry is extremely competitive, with 70% of employers increasing the number of open roles in their organizations in 2019.

What makes an organization a desirable employer? Do they need to be a large company with a recognizable name? Should the organization pay their employees more than others?

In approaching this topic, BioSpace interviewed Brian Fagan, director of Human Resources for Regeneron, Wesley Burwell, director of Talent Acquisition & Development for Global Blood Therapeutics, and Tania Philipp, vice president of Human Resources for Tango Therapeutics, to get a sense of how they approach employee retention.

In the latest Ideal Employer Survey, BioSpace readers chimed in their thoughts on which companies across the biotech and biopharma industries were doing the most interesting and meaningful work.

Here are some criteria used to identify the highest-quality life sciences candidates and some insight on how you can pick the cream of the crop for your organization.