Specialty Areas
Talencio Participates in 10th Annual LifeScience Alley Conference on December 7th
Talencio again participates int he 10th annual Midwest, LifeScience Alley conference. Over 1,500 global leaders in the life science and health care industry will meet at...[more]
November 2011Medical Device Excise Tax: Talent Impacted
When a protracted recession, as gripping as this one, forces companies to strain their financial creativity to protect their bottom line, what does the government do? Tax and ...[more]
October 2011Pondering Ways to Deal with the Device Tax
The medical device tax tends to be debated in absolutist terms—as in, "it will absolutely annihilate the industry," or "that is absolutely the worst thing to ever be inv...[more]
October 2011Paula Norbom, Talencio President, to be panelist at the Fall 2011 Technology Growth Initiative in Western Canada
The Technology Growth Initiative (TGI) is a business opportunity for start-ups and emerging Canadian technology companies in the ICT, Cleantech and Life Sciences sectors. Thro...[more]
October 2011After the medical device tax apocalypse: (Contract) workers survive
(link) http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/09/after-the-medical-device-tax-apocalypse-contract-workers-will-survive/ Predictions about the impact of the (link) 2.3 percent ex...[more]
September 2011Join Talencio at the Minnesota Bioscience Summit – 9/20/2011
The aim of the Summit is to draw together over 300 members from Minnesota’s bio-based scientific, engineering, and technology industries, as well as policymakers, academ...[more]
September 2011Talencio: Medtech matchmakers
View the Talencio feature article in the July 1, 2011 Business Journal. (link) http://talencio.com/files/20110701BusinessJournal.pdf ...[more]
July 2011Laid Off from a Large Medical Device Company? Get a Clue and Retool! Interview with Paula Norbom, President of Talencio
Have you recently been laid off from a pharma, medical device, or biotech company? If so, this may be the best advice you will receive: Get a clue and retool! That’s the...[more]
June 2011Jobs advice: Go retool if laid off from MDT, BSX marketing departments
If you have been laid off from the marketing department of any medical device firm and believe that you will land another job in the same field, be it full time or part–...[more]
May 2011Vallon LifeScience aquired by founder
Paula Norbom has become the sole owner of Vallon LifeScience and renamed it Talencio. Norbom bought out her partner, Doug Ruth, who resigned to focus fulltime as CEO of ...[more]
May 2011Vallon LifeScience acquired by founder
Paula Norbom is taking full ownership of Vallon LifeScience, a staffing firm that serves the med-tech, biotech and pharmaceuticals markets. Norbom previousl...[more]
April 2011Press Release April 27, 2011
(Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) -- Paula Norbom today announced she has become sole owner of Vallon Life Science and has renamed the company Talencio, LLC. The ch...[more]
April 2011The Nimble Workforce
The past twenty years have seen a dramatic shift away from an employee–based workforce to a more nimble and focused workforce. Contract staff can now provide ’just...[more]
May 2009The New Old Work Force
Well, the Baby Boomers are at it again changing the world, destroying conventions, rewriting the ‘established’ wisdom. This time, however, the impact is a little m...[more]
October 2008