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Getting Started in Healthcare Recruiting
Created by the CMC Career Coaching and Employer Relations teams, this guide offers insight into preparing for a career in Healthcare. It details unique characteristics of this industry, what you can expect during the recruitment/job search process, examples of recruiting partnerships, recruiting trends, and data for Kellogg grads who have recruited for this industry.
This webinar provides insights into the Healthcare landscape, trends, and key players. Watch to learn more about roles that MBAs commonly pursue within this industry and relevant professional backgrounds that align with industry needs. Learn when companies in this industry typically recruit and plan your job search accordingly, with actionable advice on how to maximize your chances for securing the right opportunities.
- Healthcare Club Recruiting Guide 2023-2024Provided by the Kellogg Healthcare Club to help you best position yourself to get your ideal internship in healthcare.
- MBA-Exchange: Healthcare Industry Report
Industry-specific insights and recent recruiting data, including top employers, hiring trends, jobs by job area, and jobs by location. You must create your MBA-Exchange account with your Kellogg email address to view.
Finding Healthcare - Pharma - Biotech Startups
Targeting recently funded healthcare startups or growing companies?
- CB Insights This link opens in a new window
PE, VC, and angel investment database that tracks startups, their investors, and trends and research for the industries they compete in. Offers Expert Collections, analyst-curated lists that highlight the companies you need to know in the most important technology spaces, such as Health Tech, AI, Aerospace & Space Tech, Fintech, Renewable Energy, and many more.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
- Create your own account using your Kellogg email address. SSO is not available for this resource.
- Please note that CB Insights accounts must be renewed after one year. If your account expires, please email CB Insights directly at university@cbinsights.com
- CB Insights Use Agreement: CB Insights is for academic and career research purposes only.
Watch a brief
database overview
CB Insights can help generate a list like this one for your specific geographic and industry focus. 
- CB Insights: Digital Health Expert CollectionYou must first create your CB Insights account to access.
- CB Insights: Synthetic Biology Expert CollectionYou must first create your CB Insights account to access.
- CB Insights: Women's Health Tech Expert CollectionYou must first create your CB Insights account to access.
- CB Insights: Mental Health Tech Expert CollectionYou must first create your CB Insights account to access.
- PitchBook This link opens in a new window
PitchBook tracks startups, public and private equity markets, including venture capital, private equity, real estate, and M&A. Includes contact information. See the Research Center under Library on the left menu for private company, industry, and technology research reports from PitchBook's analysts.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
- Create an account using your Kellogg email address. SSO not available for this resource.
- Please note that PitchBook accounts expire annually in June. Go through the steps to create your account again using your Kellogg email address and your account will be restored.
- PitchBook Use Agreement: A User may only use PitchBook internally for academic, educational, and scholarly use, must limit that use to what is allowed under this Agreement, and may not permit anyone else (including, without limitation, other employees, students or faculty of Subscriber) to use their user name or password to access/use the Site or any Services.
PitchBook FAQs and Glossary
Watch a brief on how to find alumni
Watch a brief on how to build a target list of private equity or venture capital firms
Watch a brief on how to build a target list of startups
Finding Established Companies
Targeting established companies?
- Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that offers access to business data, facts and figures, financials, and industry profiles for private and public U.S and international companies. Use to identify companies and competitors by size, location, industry, sales, and more.
Watch a brief on how to build a target list of companies
Note: Use SIC or NAICS code instead of HIC code. HIC codes have been phased out of Mergent Intellect.
Watch a brief on how to find industry information
Watch a brief on how to find company information
Mergent Intellect can help generate a list like this one for your specific geographic and industry focus.
- Mergent Intellect - Industry Codes Cheat SheetSuggested codes for the tech, consulting, e-commerce, cpg, retail, healthcare, transportation/travel, & media industries.
Healthcare Company Rankings
- CB Insights: Digital Health 50 - The most promising digital health companies of 2023Create and/or sign in to your CB Insights account via Kellogg to access the full list.
- The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA): Company Members ListSelect "Members" tab to view list
Private Company Resource
- PrivCo This link opens in a new window
PrivCo is a proprietary database that sources info on private company financial data for more than 800,000 U.S. companies. Keyword search for Minority-led, Women-led, Family-owned, and B Corporation Certified businesses. PrivCo's focus is on companies that are earning at least $1 million in annual revenue or have at least $1 million in venture capital backing. Also includes info on investors.
NOTE: You must use GlobalProtect VPN to access the database if you are connecting from off-campus.
- Create your own account using your Kellogg email address. SSO not available for this resource.
- PrivCo Use Agreement: PrivCo is for academic and career research purposes only.
