Employment in the chemical industry has been slow for several years. But chemists with the right skills have been finding jobs anyway, and today, prospects for young chemists with industrial aspirations are improving.
Interested in a job in industry? Get the inside view on the sectors which employ scientists, the people who work in industry, and the resources that can help you land your dream job. sect_100.gif SECTORS Which industry sectors are looking for your talents? Who's hiring? What are they looking for? What do they have to offer? Latest: Careers in the Chemical Industry In the Footsteps of Archimedes: ...
Cynthia Robbins-Roth's life has eerily mirrored the life of the biotech industry. She began her career as one of Genentech's first research scientists. Later, in the late 1980s and 1990s, she became a leading industry consultant and media voice. Then, in 2001, at the peak of her career, she crashed--literally. Robbins-Roth was injured in a plane crash, creating a personal crisis that more than ma...
In this, the conclusion to our renewable-energy feature, Anne Forde talks to European scientists about their careers in the solar-energy industry and discovers that these jobs are likely to appeal to scientists interested in R&D with a small r and a capital D.
foc_061606 Rapid advances in biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences generate some of the hottest careers in science. The industry experts interviewed here describe lifelong opportunities in new fields—such as pharmacogenetics—and more traditional pursuits—such as basic pharmacology. In addition, these experts lay out some softer and harder skills that can make the difference in getting the bes...
The European steel industry has managed to rejuvenate itself through technological innovation, and the only thing it is now short of are specialised young scientists.
To succeed in drug discovery today, you need to be a jack of many trades and a master of (at least) one. Depth and breadth. Both are required of scientists working on making new drugs. So say managers in big pharma, biotech, and government programs in drug discovery and development. "When you're working toward a Ph.D., you're focused like a laser on whatever your area of work is," says Joe Bolen,...
PDF Version To work in biotech or pharma? For newly minted Ph.D.s as well as postdocs considering jobs in industry, that frequently may be the question. The answer, however, may be that it does not matter. Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly acquiring biotech companies to broaden their portfolios, and some biotech companies have grown so diverse that they resemble pharmaceutical companies. ...
Defining Biotechnology Biotechnology is all around us. If you're not convinced, just open your fridge or visit your pharmacist. Yogurts and beer, vaccines and antibiotics . . . They're all fine examples of what biotechnology is helping us produce. So what exactly is biotechnology? Biotechnology was defined in the international Convention on Biological Diversity as "any technological application t...
DAVID G. JENSEN, A SCIENTIFIC RECRUITER AND SPEAKER ON CAREER ISSUES WORLDWIDE, IS THE FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CAREERTRAX INC., A BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL RECRUITING FIRM LOCATED IN SEDONA, ARIZONA. PREVIOUS COLUMNS Thinking about a position in industry? Many of our readers would answer "yes" to that question, not only because the total number of tenure track positions in academi...
