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The first person to introduce me to the term work-life integration was Margaret Foti, president of AACR. I was on the Associate Member Council, which wanted to plan a Career Conversation on work-life balance at the upcoming Annual Meeting.

The term work-life integration resonates with me. That's because I never turn myself off from work, and work infiltrates every aspect of my life. Conversely, I never turn off my role as a mother, wife, foodie, exercise fan, ancestry buff, and career development blogger. My life certainly infiltrates my work.

Work on a laptop is integrated into home life.
It's impossible to avoid life infiltrating work and vice versa. Photo by Arnel Hasanovic
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How does working with a recruiter help you land your dream job in a pharma or biotech company? Or how does working with pharmaceutical recruiters and headhunters help you hire the best-fit candidate for your job opening?

Working with pharmaceutical recruiters and headhunters can help you get hired or hire the right job candidate.
Working with a recruiter can help you get hired or hire the right person. Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com
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Just as my son turned 5 months old, I returned to work. Immediately, I began to feel overwhelmed with the burden of running a household, caring for an infant, and showing up alert and coherent at work. I simply needed more time to get everything done and then sleep!

Everyone else around me seemed to be gracefully handling multiple children and working full-time in successful careers. Some new moms were even getting promotions at work soon after returning from maternity leave. I was still languishing in survival mode.

Women's work around the household like washing dirty dishes or cleaning the kitchen gets to have monetary value when outsourced.
Household work often takes up valuable time.
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The Data Science function works with healthcare data to generate impactful evidence and insights. Christel Chehoud is featured.
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In this series, we highlight specific functions or departments within typical pharmaceutical company organizations. We also feature the perspectives of women working in these different functions and their career journeys.

About the Data Science function

The Data Science function is typically responsible for working with data to generate impactful evidence and insights. These data describe the pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic products and patients. Such work can support the entire life cycle of a drug, from early stage development to post-market commitments. The overarching goal of the work may be to advance scientific and medical knowledge and enable data-driven patient care and access. 

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For me, how to define success in my career is holistic. Individuals should have the freedom in how they define success in their careers in their own terms.
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Recently, I attended a seminar in which the topic of career development was raised. The speakers addressed the steps that a professional can take to be “successful” in his/her career. This idea of success in one's career made me think about what success means to me. I do not think that success is merely a promotion (although I will gladly accept a promotion!). For me, success in my career is much more holistic. I believe that individuals should have the freedom to define career success in their own terms. 

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