Hi everyone. Any tips on how to best land a job at a Pharma/Biotech startup following a few years in LS consulting? Any tips on identifying startup job opportunities, networking, etc. would be great!

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I just did this, was looking specifically for startups and found the job by reading papers about promising therapeutic modalities and checking the websites of companies working on one's that sounded solid

And just my two cents on the first comment, I don't think it would've gone great if I'd asked my firm's partners for help 😂

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Ask the leadership at your firm - their incentive is to get you a job that you like if you’re going to leave

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Why not? If you’re on good terms with them the worst that can happen is they try to get you to stay. If you’re not looking for another consulting role the incentive is to help you get a role you’re happy with and potentially become a future client

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My strategy was just to set job alerts through LinkedIn and when a posting came up at a biotech that ticked the right boxes do all of the networking I could to get a referral. Though I went to a more established biotech (60ish employees), probably not as easy for a tiny company or one still in stealth mode.

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