From Job Search to Power Move: How Top Talent’s Playing 2025
🎙 Episode Title: From Job Search to Power Move: How Top Talent’s Playing 2025
🧠 Guests: Kristiaan Rawlings, Executive Director at EPM Scientific
🎧 Hosts: Na-Ri Oh & Ian Wendt
Episode Summary
Layoffs. AI. Resume black holes. The biopharma hiring market feels noisy—and not in a good way. But beneath the doomscrolling, there’s a more nuanced story unfolding.
In this episode, Kristiaan Rawlings returns to RealPharma to deliver a data-backed pulse check on the state of hiring across the industry. Drawing from hundreds of hours of direct conversations with execs, talent leaders, and hiring managers, Kristiaan unpacks:
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📈 Which therapy areas and functions are hiring (and which are not)
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🧠 How AI is actually being used in recruitment—and where it falls short
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👀 Why 70% of senior roles are now confidential
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🤝 The traits that are getting candidates hired in 2025
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💸 Sign-on bonuses: who’s getting them, how to ask, and what to watch out for
Whether you're job hunting, hiring, or just trying to read the market right—this conversation brings the clarity.
Resources & Links
🔗 Connect with Kristiaan Rawlings on LinkedIn
🌐 Explore non-confidential roles at EPM Scientific
