SCIENCE JOBS
Science job is turning out to be the most popular
field for graduates to enter. Statistics show that there are
about 60,000 employees presently working with the pharmaceutical
industry in UK. Only a quarter of these figure are graduates
who are working in fields like sales and marketing.
However,
science job doesn’t revolve around lab work only.
There are quiet a large number of fields like management, engineering, finance,
IT and sales and marketing that requires scientific background.
Science job are often referred as working
for humanity. Here you can choose working for a large pharmaceutical
or chemical company, whereby
researching, developing and testing new medicines, plastics or washing powders,
for instance. Otherwise you can work in bioinformatics, biotechnology, petrochemicals,
environmental research or in cancer research.
If working in defence industry has always fascinated you and
biology has been your area of interest, you may work as a biologist
or immunologist. A biologist, in the modern defence industry,
is responsible for checking how drugs affect humans, while an
immunologist creates new vaccines against biological weapons. A life science graduate, however, can land into a job of identifying
drug targets, or in computational biology, regulatory affairs
or the preparation of patent applications. He can also work
as an engineer scaling up drug or chemical production.
If
fancy research work doesn’t appeal to you, then you
can consider teaching or science writing. Manufacturing and
engineering are the other sectors which require science graduates. For a
science job, you need to have a good science degree and have
analytical mind. Unlike a marketing professional, you need
to be efficient and able to work independently on your own project.
Qualifications generally asked by the recruiters for a science
job is a degree in science, and Masters or PhD for research
work.
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