Being Brutally honest with each other and ourselves by telling our story spun and unspun.

Inspired by Ben Walters and Dima Mutran, here is my first stab at "tell my story, spun and unspun"

Spun:

Asma chose to work at a clinic in Canada in 2015. After 1 year, she was recruited into Roche outside Canada. Over the next 2.5 years, Asma successfully cleared the audit, executed medical strategy. Successful efforts at Roche lead to award recognition and got her a secondment in Roche Canada 2018.Due to her passion to help patients, Asma in June 2019 was offered her dream role of Scientific Advisor at GSK Canada. After 1.5 years, amazing successes were acquired.

Unspun:

Asma immigrated to Canada in 2015, continuous job searched and despite passion to help patients, having MD & many years of experience in sales, training, marketing & medical, she was rejected multiple times (read >100 here), heard “overqualified”, no Canadian experience”, took the only job offered @clinic (no salary). After ~1 y, her dedication & perseverance was rewarded by Roche outside Canada and she took a department head role in Medical Affairs to deepen her expertise, based on a recruiter friend's referral. She was 9 months pregnant at joining. Delivered the baby, was on maternity leave for 20 days, came back to work because of her dedication and passion to help patients. She was a mom to 1.5 years and a newborn, in a new country, new role, new company, new team with the task to ensure success in the medical audit in <6 months. Over the next 2.5 y she spent her time on successfully completing the medical audit, building the new team, hiring new MSLs, launching Oncology products for helping cancer pts, resolving medical-commercial collaboration challenges with frequent travelling between Canada, Pakistan and Europe. In 2018 she got a secondment in Roche Canada because of her success in the medical audit which lead to the launch of access program for needy cancer patients but at the same time still kept hearing rejections for jobs in Canadian Pharma, almost multiple rejections ( read >50 here). Finally, she left Roche in Jan 2019 with the risk of unemployment, to pursue her search for helping more patient. Finally, the luck struck, someone saw the potential, resilience, perseverance, and skills in her, and she was given her dream job by GSK in Canada in June 2019.1.5 year of amazing learning & successes at GSK Canada. The journey continues to peruse her passion to help Canadian patients.