Our First Opportunity Program is designed to offer recently graduated talent the opportunity to gather their first experience and render their services and knowledge in their home country Puerto Rico. The program objective is to negotiate low cost scientific and engineering services to the FDA regulated industries in Puerto Rico, by providing an in-training rookie resource supervised and mentored by an experienced N&CS Consulting Group resource. This new First Opportunity Program will result in mutually benefits for our operation costs and for our clients direct cost, also it benefits the rookie consultant, by providing them their first opportunity in the health science consulting field.
Overview
The program consists in offering a list of already evaluated and interviewed resources to potential clients, so they can evaluate if the resource is tailored for their specific consulting needs. The chosen candidate(s) are scheduled to be interviewed by the client. If the client finds the resource suitable, N&CS will provide the client the assigned N&CS experienced resource. This experienced resource will monitor and guarantee the performance and tasks assigned to the rookie resource, which would eventually, gain the experience to perform all his duties with minimum supervision. The introductory hourly rate for the scientific resource is established at a promotional discounted rate. This special rate will continue to be effective for the first six (6) months. After the promotional 6-month period, the resource will be billed as an Engineer I or Technical Scientist I, as applicable at the client/N&CS negotiated base rate.
Program Benefits
The main advantages of this program are:
- Low cost guaranteed Professional Services to our clients.
- The graduated student will acquire his first job experience which will help expand his professional portfolio in health care industries.
- N&CS will have the opportunity to expose these new resources to on-field training
Services Offered
- GxP Documentation
- Validation Lifecycle Deliverables
- Process Validation
- Cleaning Validation
- Manufacturing Equipment Validation
- Solid Dosage Manufacturing
- Computerized System Validations
- Facilities / Utilities Commissioning and Validation
- Monitoring Studies
- Sterilization Validation
- Manufacturing Engineering Consulting
- Instrumentation / Calibration
- CAPA / Non-Conformance, Complaints Investigations
Why this Program is Necessary?
Puerto Ricans are frustrated by limited job prospects on an island that had staggering unemployment. Unemployment rate is over 12%, more than double of the USA rate.
This situation has given a burst of life to worries in Puerto Rico about a brain drain of educated citizens picking up and heading to the rest of the United States in search of better job prospects. The situation is more complex than an exodus simply of the island’s best and brightest. Leaving is something that almost all sectors of the population have been increasingly seeking to do while some of those are among the better educated.
The Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico releases a report each year detailing the profile of residents leaving Puerto Rico. The institute’s Migrant Profile 2012 report, released in January 2014, noted an uptick in the number of those leaving with some post-secondary education.
- “The percentage of out-migrants with some post-secondary education grew from 43% in 2011 to 52% in 2012,” the report noted, and “between 500 and 2,500 professionals left in 2012.”
According to the Migrant Profile 2013 report, 84% of Puerto Rican men and 67% of Puerto Rican women who migrate to the USA do so for work or to find work, a slight increase over the previous year. Every year, the percent of out-migrants increases, leaving the main island with less professional resources to cover the required contracted consulting services for the Health Industries. Just in 2014, the amount of net people leaving the island to US locations increased, as described in the following table:
