As a recruiter, one of my specialties is Rare Disease. 

However, this past year it got even more personal and I have only recently decided to open up about it publicly.

Everybody’s rehearsed the answer to, “Tell me about yourself” but you’ll slay the interview if you roll that into a discussion of how you’ll address the (properly pronounced!) product pain points.

I was speaking to a candidate today about where he had interviewed already and what he was looking for. He shared that he had just declined an offer…

Today a colleague asked me about a time I declined an opportunity to work with a well-known rare disease company that was going through a sizable expansion. These were my answers…