Dave Manchester
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 How should a CDMO decide which quality and manufacturing seats go to contractors? Keep permanent the methods, lines and quality-system owners that run every quarter, and contract the work that follows the signed-program board, meaning tech transfers, program starts and release peaks. In KORE1 placement data from 2019 to … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 What does a contract lab technician or QC analyst really cost per hour? Across 54 KORE1 lab, QC and life-science contract placements from 2019 to 2026, employers paid a median bill rate of $40 an hour, with the middle half between $33 and $56. A three-month contract at 40 … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Who does a recruiter call first when a great QC chemist comes on the market? Honestly, the hiring manager who’s easiest to work with. A strong recruiter hiring manager relationship runs on a real intake call, feedback inside two business days, honest answers about the job, and candidates treated … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Was last year’s hiring any good? Look at who’s still on the payroll. New hire retention is the share of people you hired who are still employed at a set checkpoint, usually 90 days and 12 months, and tracked by source it’s the most honest grade your recruiting gets. … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 You run a QC lab, nobody in the building recruits for a living, and you just typed “recruitment support” into a search bar. What are you actually asking for? Recruitment support is outside help that takes over some or all of the hiring work a talent acquisition team would … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a growing science company stop borrowing recruiters and hire one? Hire your first internal recruiter when hiring becomes a repeating pattern instead of a run of surprises, meaning the same few roles keep reopening, two or three searches run at once, and a manager is losing days … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your packaging line finished a batch on Tuesday. When does it ship? Batch record review is the quality unit’s check that every production and control record for a batch is complete, correct, and explained, and under FDA rules that check comes before the batch can be released or distributed. … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Who on your payroll is going to catch a process somebody else spent years building? Tech transfer in pharma moves a product’s process, test methods, and know-how from a sending site to yours, and the receiving site has to supply most of the people who make it work. Usually … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 A scientist with six years in a GLP lab applies for your manufacturing opening. Same thing as GMP, more or less? No. GLP governs how nonclinical safety studies are run and recorded so regulators can trust the data, while GMP governs how a drug is made, tested, and released … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Two resumes both say “five years of GMP experience.” Same five years? Probably not. GMP experience means a person has done work governed by current good manufacturing practice rules, following approved written procedures, recording each step as they did it, and signing records a quality unit reviews. On a … Read more
