Laid off? We're here to help.
A full suite of free resources — built from over 55 years of combined search and placement experience — to help you activate your network, sharpen your resume, stand out in interviews, run financial due diligence, and negotiate the offer. And if your next move is consulting, the tools to launch that too.
Facing a layoff isn't something anyone should do alone.
Phase 3 was built to impact society by building and supporting the world's life-science leadership teams. So it matters to us that you — a talented leader — can get back to what you do best: bringing medicines to patients.
Below you'll find our full Leaders in Transition Playbook — worksheets and practical resources to help you activate your network, write a resume for maximum impact, differentiate your leadership in the interview, conduct financial due diligence, and negotiate your package. If you've been laid off, or know someone who has, please share this page.
— Alex Cooke, Founder & CEO, Phase 3 Search
Twelve free resources to land your next role.
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Start Here — Your First 14 Days
A calm, step-by-step plan for the first two weeks after a transition: stabilise, orient, and take back control.
Resume Guide
Write a standout resume that communicates your leadership and the impact you've had — and opens the door to an interview.
Networking Checklist
Use your LinkedIn to map your network, structure your outreach, and land your next job.
Candidate Differentiation Checklist
Stand apart from your peers with a comprehensive list of the moves that make your application shine.
Financial Due Diligence
The best questions to ask so you understand a new employer's stability and projections before you join.
CMC Compensation Guide
Salary and bonus ranges for CxO, SVP, VP, Executive Director, Senior Director & Director roles across Series A, B/C/D, and post-IPO companies.
Negotiate a Sign-On & Understand Your Equity
Our formula for determining a sign-on bonus — with worked examples of how to negotiate it.
Onboarding — The First 90 Days
Land the new role well — the 90-day plan that sets up everything that follows.
How to Use AI in Your Job Search
Where AI earns its place across your search — résumé, research and interview prep — plus the five guardrails that keep it from hurting you.
Company Research & Interview-Prep Prompt
A ready-to-run AI brief that builds a fact-checked intelligence pack on a prospective employer — leadership, funding, pipeline, values and interview angles.
Networking Tracker (Excel)
A ready-made tracker to run your outreach like a pipeline, not a guessing game.
Sign-On Calculator (Excel)
Model your base, bonus, equity and sign-on the way a headhunter would.
Relaunch your expertise. Build a thriving biotech consulting practice.
A setback can be the start of something independent and fulfilling. Here's why — and the resources to do it right.
Freedom & flexibility
Choose projects that fit your interests, set your own hours, and work from anywhere — without the administrative burden.
Expanded impact
Bring your proven track record to multiple clients and industries, and solve problems at a wider scale.
Recharge & relaunch
Use the break to recharge, develop new skills, and position yourself as a thought leader for what's next.
Financial security
Command top hourly rates and take more control of your income by building a strong client base.
Entrepreneurial spirit
Be your own boss, build your brand, and create a successful independent practice on your terms.
New Consultants — Start Here
The index to the consultant pack: what to read first, and why it matters.
Determine Your Hourly Rate
Set a competitive rate that reflects your expertise and keeps your practice financially healthy — then model it against utilisation, overheads and target income with the calculator.
Set Up Your LLC — Checklist
Every consideration and action item you need to launch your own LLC with confidence.
Coaching for leaders in transition, in plain terms.
What does Leaders in Transition include?
Career coaching, interview preparation, positioning, and search strategy for senior CMC, Technical Operations, and Quality leaders moving between roles — structured one-to-one sessions with a written read-back after each.
Who is it for?
VP-to-C-suite life-sciences technical leaders: between roles, planning a move, or preparing for a step up in scope.
How does it work?
A structured intake on where you are and where you want to be, then focused sessions on positioning, narrative, and interview performance — run by the same team that briefs hiring boards every week.
How do I start?
Use the contact page to book a conversation. You will hear back within one business day.
Want to talk it through?
We'd love to hear about your journey. Let's connect for an honest audit of your search, your goals, and a plan to get you where you want to be.