When Big Resumes Chase Small Jobs

WSJ -- Biologist David Weinberg received feelers from a biotechnology start-up shortly after Merck & Co. laid him off in October. But the 20-person firm never interviewed him for its middle-management vacancy because Dr. Weinberg had spent his 19-year career at the pharmaceutical giant. The biotech concern spurned six other prospects with similar backgrounds, according to recruiters Klein Hersh International, which handled the hunt.

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