Planning to Boost Your Pharmacy Career?
Pharmacy has various career options. After completing your graduation in Pharmacy various job prospects like production, Marketing, Quality control, Quality assurance, Regulatory affairs, hospital pharmacist and retail pharmacist are available. Boosting your pharmacy career to a high level needs planning and continuous learning. A pharmacy graduate must keep updated knowledge to enhance your career opportunities
Effective Communication Skill
Communication skill plays an important role in getting success in the pharmaceutical industry as same other industries. An Effective communication skill is the key to collaboration between team members. Effective communication also ensures regulatory compliance with the manufacturing process as pharmaceutical manufacturing is governed by various regulatory agencies and many approvals are needed before launching the product into the market. Effective communication with patients and physicians ensures better therapeutic outcomes.
Mental qualities
Try to boost your mental qualities like imagination, presence of mind, memory power and initiative. Having a good memory can help you at your workplace to boost your career. Remembering important details about your work will help you to give better output in the pharmaceutical industry. With a good memory power, you can keep yourself organized and ahead of others. If you remember data, deadlines and tasks, you will not miss your deadlines and your output will be much better.
Update Your Self
Keep yourself updated with the latest developments and research in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Register yourself for the continuous education programs, which provide the latest information in the field. Training in areas such as regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, and pharmaceutical artificial intelligence can give you a competitive edge and advance your prospects as a pharmaceutical professional.
Personality Development
Personality includes several attributes like your physical appearance, way of speaking, voice modulation, gestures, posture and health habits Personal development and lifelong learning enable pharmaceutical professionals to improve their skills, knowledge, and understanding of the industry, leading to personal growth. A charming personality creates a good impression and increases your career prospects.
Be in touch with mentors
Relation building is the key to better success in career growth. Be in touch with your seniors, mentors, and teachers. Join a professional organization. Relationships with mentors can provide you with potential job opportunities.
Get specialization
Always try to learn specialization in some specific area of pharmacy such as regulatory affairs, novel drug delivery systems, and pharmacovigilance. If you have a specialization in a special area your job prospectus will be much better. Try to get more and more training in special areas of pharmacy.
Leadership
Don’t hesitate to take on new responsibilities and work on some new projects to learn new skills. Enroll yourself in some training or leadership course to learn leadership skills to get a higher position in the organization. By learning new skills, you can improve the quality of your work, which will give significant value to your career growth.
Learn new technology and automation
Learn the latest technology and software in pharmacy. Artificial intelligence is also playing an important role in the pharmaceutical industry keeping health records.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Explore available entrepreneurial opportunities. You can open your pharmacy store or start a small-scale pharmaceutical industry. Try to come up with a novel idea. There are ample opportunities in the pharmaceutical field. Being the largest population country in the world, the demand for medicines is continuously increasing.
Author
DrJagdish Chandra Rathi
Principal,
NRI Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, (NIPS)
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh