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The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service Bioscience Jobs Slides for this talk are available on the Science Careers Employability Award on Moodle. Main bioscience Jobs. Research and Development Clinical Biochemists And Microbiologists Biomedical Scientists Science Teacher - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What careers can I enter with a Bioscience degree?
Bruce Woodcock University of Kent Careers and Employability Service [email protected]
You can download a copy of this presentation at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm
Kent Undergraduate Bioscience Destinations
Bioscience Careers pagewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/bioscience.htmFull Kent destinations are atwww.kent.ac.uk/careers/fdrbases/destinations.htm
Kent Bioscience graduates: science jobs• NES Global Talent Life Science Recruitment Consultant• Tharsaser Associates Ltd Phamacovigilance Associate• Bioventix Research Assistant• Novartis Vaccine Sales Representative• School Science technician• NHS Health Care Advisor• Hammersmith Medicines Research Research Technician• NHS Scunthorpe Hospital Biomedical Assistant• NHS Barnett Hospital Emergency Department Assistant• King's College Hospital Healthcare Assistant• Lewisham Hospital Healthcare Assistant• Surrey Rest Homes Limited Healthcare Consultant & Administrator• Clinical Professionals Med Comms Resourcer• Maidstone NHS Trust Medical Lab Ass't - Blood Sciences
Department• Sauflon Pharmaceuticals Microbiologist• TwistDx Quality control laboratory technician• NHS Diabetes Clinical Research Assistant• Royal Free Hospital Administrator• Thermo Fisher Scientific Enzyme Immuno Assay Technician
About 50% of those in work are in science jobs – the rest in other jobs.www.kent.ac.uk/careers/fdrbases/destinations.htm
Jobs outside scienceOne third of graduate jobs accept any degree subject.
BECAUSE:• Learn new skills
quickly• Analyse & solve
problems• Communicate well• Open to new ideas,
adaptable and flexible• “Managers of change”
• Accountancy• Computing• Teaching• Marketing and Sales• Retailing• Social Work• Personnel• NHS Management
Many biology graduates!Limited jobs for BSc graduates in science – may need MSc to compete.
Finance: Accountancy• Take any degree subject provided you have done
careful research• Need good A Level grades – about BBB minimum• Need good maths – about GCSE grade A minimum• Lots of jobs – PWC alone take 1,000 graduates a year• 3 years demanding study for professional exams: 12
hours per week in evenings and at weekends BUT paid £25,000 salary
• On qualification £40,000 ++• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/accountancy.htm
Computing
• Firms such FDM will take graduates from any subject with good analytical skills and a strong interest in IT and train you in software development
• Or can do an MSc Computer Science at Kent• Or MSc in Bioinformatics• Big shortage of good programmers in UK so excellent
salaries and opportunities• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/computing.htm • www.gradcracker.com
Placements and InternshipsPlacements are usually 12 months as part of your degree
Internships are usually 2 to 3 months over summer. • WWW.GRADCRACKER.COM
Brilliant website for science internships and placements!• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/vacwork.htm• Science internships
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/ScienceJobs.htm• Placements
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/placements.htm • Science Recruitment Agencies
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitephar.htm#ScientificRecAgencies • Speculative CVs to firms in your area• Vacancy database:
www.kent.ac.uk/ces/vacancies.html
If you can’t get a science placement ………
Do something outside science that develops your teamworking/organising/ problem-solving skills• BUNAC www.bunac.org.uk Summer work in the
USA, Canada, Australia, Jamaica and Ghana • Camp America www.campamerica.co.uk • Camp Counsellors USA and Work Experience
USA www.ccusa.com• CIEE www.ciee.org work experience in the USA,
Canada, Australia and NZ
Where are the new science jobs?
ABPI report The UK ‘lacks the skills’ for future drug development in: • Interdisciplinary areas of maths,
computing and biology: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, health informatics, statistics, computational chemistry and data mining
• Genomics• Translational medicine• Clinical pharmacology • Veterinary and toxicological pathology.• Formulationwww.abpi.org.uk/our-work/library/industry/Documents/Skills_Gap_Industry.pdf
Biomedical Scientists• Work in hospital and related laboratories - Blood Transfusion Service
and veterinary laboratories. 24/7 job: work Christmas day!• Provide analytical and advisory services to clinicians and other
professionals. Clinical chemistry is biggest recruiter.• Few jobs are now advertised! Must inquire at local hospitals: get
unpaid experience/project work. Can work as a volunteer for a year to become qualified: must have a mentor to sign log book.
• Sign up for email alerts to be notified of trainee BMS vacancies on the NHS Jobs website www.jobs.nhs.uk
• Can also get a laboratory assistant post via NHS Jobs www.nhsjobs.com and work your way up but may take a few years
• Kent and Canterbury Hospital took 2 placement students this year: one completed log book in 9 months. Fran will advertise placements. Talk to course lecturers from local hospitals about jobs.
• Vacancy website www.careerscene.com www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/hospitalsci.htm
STP – Scientists Training Programme - NHS
• Work in a hospital while completing a (fully paid for) Masters degree part-time.
Tasks include: • Planning and organising work in clinical labs.• Organising tests on patient samples • Advising clinicians and GPs on use of tests and
interpretation of results. • Carrying out R&D as well as evaluation and
quality assessment of diagnostic tests. • Developing new and existing tests.www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/hospitalsci.htm
Medical Sales• Employed by pharmaceutical companies to promote medicines etc.
to doctors & pharmacists. • Arrange appointments with doctors. • Make presentations to doctors, nurses, hospital consultants. • Keeping pharmacists informed e.g. which drugs GPs are likely to
prescribe. • Attend company's regional meetings. • Car is your office. Constant people contact but can be lonely. Spend
a lot of time in doctors waiting rooms. Route into marketing & sales management.
• Get company car/laptop/iPhone. Must like driving!• Training. Initial 8 week intensive course covering sales and product
training and background physiology and anatomy. Must pass ABPI exam within 2 years.
• Ashfield Healthcare take 200 graduates a year. www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/medicalsales.htm
Patent Attorney• Obtains patents world-wide. Reads descriptions of inventions/analysing novelty.
Writes specifications of inventions in precise terms. Files applications for patents. Advises clients.
• EMPLOYERS: Mainly private consultancies. Also industrial companies.
• INSIDE CAREERS www.insidecareers.co.uk/professions/patent-attorneys
Patent Examiner • Ensures applications for patents are within the requirements of the Patents Act &
don't infringe the rights of inventors. Examines the invention & searches publications to ascertain novelty. Considers legal matters affecting entitlement to claimed monopoly. Produces report
• EMPLOYERS: UK Patent Office - Newport European Patent Office
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/patent.htm
Bioinformatics• Getting biological information (proteins, DNA and
mRNA) logged, coded, retrieved in an easily accessible format.
• Employers: Sanger Centre, European Bioinformatics Institute, MRC UK Human Genome Mapping Project, all in Cambridge, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford.
• Big pharmaceutical companies such as GSK or AstraZeneca recruit regularly,
• Postgrad. Courses: Manchester, Leeds, Exeter, Edinburgh, Birkbeck, York – last 1 year. MRC gives studentships
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/bioinformatics.htm
Forensic BiologyIndependent forensic contractors • LGC - Middlesex - analytical science, consumer
protection pollution and health, DNA and drug analysis also document examination for Inland Revenue and DSS.
• Not many vacancies advertised – need to make speculative applications.
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/forensicsci.htm
Science Vacancy Sources• Kent University vacancy and internship database
https://careers.kent.ac.uk/service/home.html • Prospects Web www.prospects.ac.uk • The Biochemical Society www.biochemist.org/jobs • New Health Careers website www.healthcareers.nhs.uk
provides detailed information on more than 350 roles in health
• www.gradcracker.com science and engineering vacancies and internships
• Science Recruitment Agencies - some offer temporary laboratory work in vacations. www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitephar.htm
• New Scientist www.newscientistgraduate.com • Nature www.nature.com/nature • Speculative CVs
To Find Out More …...
• Science Careers pagewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/ScienceJobs.htm
• I Want to Work in … www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin.htm
• Prospects Profileswww.prospects.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/careers Telephone: 01227 823299 Email: [email protected] hours: Monday to Friday 9 to 5 including vacations Drop-in times (no appointment needed): 10.30 to 12.30 and 2 to 4 pmHelp given for up to 3 years after graduationWeekly careers emails every Monday afternoon
Location of the Careers Service
Careers Employability Award on Moodle
• Half the unemployment rate for students who complete the award www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm
• General Award DP2650 Science Award DP2675• Email [email protected] if you have problems enrolling
The next two presentationsTomorrow (27th Nov.) More on bioscience careers: Doctor, teaching, medical therapies (nursing, physiotherapy, dietetics etc.), Research careers, Clinical Research Associate, Medical communications, plus choosing a career, applications and interviews resources.
ATTENDANCE WILL BE REGISTERED
Monday 4th Dec. Postgraduate StudyPhDs, MScs, applications and interviews for postgraduate study, funding, study abroadThese are the final careers lectures I shall be giving you during your degree.
Bruce Woodcock• An adviser is on duty for short (15 minute) consultations in the
Careers and Employability Service any weekday morning 10.30-12.30 or afternoon from 2 pm to 4 pm. You don't need an appointment to see the duty adviser at these times. Just ask at Careers Reception to see them.
• Email: [email protected]• You can book a careers interview with me after my talks are
finished via https://careers.kent.ac.uk/service/home.html
Bioscience Careers
Bruce Woodcock University of Kent Careers and Employability Service [email protected]
You can download a copy of this presentation at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm
Degree Class Percentages
11%
44%
40%
5% First class 70% +
Upper Second (2:1) 60 - 69 %
Lower Second (2:2) 50 - 59 %
Third 40 - 49 %
Medical Sales
Teaching Research
PhD
Science Technician