The University of Kent Careers Advisory Service Bioscience Careers

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The University of KentCareers Advisory
ServiceBioscience Careers

• Bruce Woodcock

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Content of Talks

• Sources of Jobs
• Vacation Work
• Timetable for action
• Careers open to bioscience graduates (week 2)
• Applications and interviews for science jobs
  (week 3)
• Postgraduate Study (week 4)
• THESE ARE THE FINAL CAREERS TALKS I SHALL BE
  GIVING YOU.

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What can I do with a Kent Bioscience Degree?
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/bioscience.htm
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SCIENCE JOBS more about these next week

• Medical Sales Representative
• Patent Examiner
• Patent Agent
• Scientific Administrator
• Medical Communications and Science Writing
• Doctor
• Nursing Physiotherapy

• Research Development
• Clinical Scientists
• Biomedical Scientists
• Pharmacologist Toxicologist
• Science Teaching
• Production Quality Assurance
• Regulatory Affairs
• Clinical Research Associate/Monitor
• Information Scientist
• Bioinformatics

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Biomedical Scientists

• Work in hospital and related laboratories - Blood
  Transfusion Service and veterinary laboratories. 
• Provides analytical and advisory services to
  clinicians and other professionals,
• Training lasts two years - may include secondment
  on a part-time MSc.
• Few jobs are now advertised! Must inquire at
  local hospitals.
• vacancy website www.careerscene.com
• NHS Jobs www.nhsjobs.com
• Talk to course lecturers from William Harvey
  other local hospitals.
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/hospitalsci.htm

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Degree Class Percentages
PhD
Medical Sales
Science Technician
Research
Teaching
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One 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
• Banking
• Computing
• Teaching
• Marketing and Sales
• Retailing
• Social Work
• Personnel
• Civil Service

26 of Kent Bioscientists get jobs outside science
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WHAT SKILLS DO BIOSCIENTISTS NEED? - GSK

• Presentation skills
• Teamworking
• Computing Skills
• Time Management/organising skills
• People skills
• Report writing/documentation of experiments
• Laboratory experience
• Problem solving skills

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CHOOSING A CAREER

• Prospects Planner powerful career choice program
  www.prospects.ac.uk/links/PPlanner

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VACATION WORK

• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/vacwork.htm
• Science internships www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Scienc
  eJobs.htm
• Science Recruitment Agencies
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitephar.htmScientificRecA
  gencies
• Speculative CVs to firms in your area
• Vacancy database
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs

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If you cant 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

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APPLYING FOR TEACHER TRAINING

• Tuesday, 7 Feb in Keynes Lecture Theatre 5
  Starting at 1300 Ending at 1400
• The Director of Postgraduate Admissions at
  Canterbury Christ Church University will talk
  about applications for PGCE courses and what
  teacher training institutions look for when
  selecting students. There will be time for
  discussion and questions afterwards. If you're
  at all interested in teaching, don't miss this
  talk
• 20,000 bursary if you get a 1st!

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Moodle Careers Employability Award

• Assessed by a range of tests and assignments
• It will greatly improve your career planning and
  jobhunting skills increasing your work readiness
  and giving you the confidence and strategies to
  make appropriate career choices.
• Takes about 12 hours to complete
• On completion you will get a University of Kent
  Careers Employability Award to add to your CV
• Current students can gain 40 Kent Employability
  points for successful completion of the module.
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm

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SECOND YEAR CAREER PLAN

• AIM FOR A GOOD DEGREE. Many employers require an
  Upper Second degree (21/60)
• PREPARE A STRONG SCIENCE CV. It will save you
  time in your busy final year. www.kent.ac.uk/caree
  rs/cv/cvexamples.htm
• GET WORK EXPERIENCE to add skills to your CV.
• START TO DECIDE WHICH JOB OR POSTGRADUATE STUDY
  you want to aim for in your final year.

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Other points

• Check you campus emails regularly as I will send
  you emails on vacation work, careers talks,
  vacancies etc.
• Get actively involved in university life so you
  have evidence of teamwork, organising, leadership
  etc. skills for your CV.
• Apply early in your final year closing dates
  are often in the first term GSK/AstraZeneca
  typically October/November.

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Bruce Woodcock

• Deal with all Bioscience students
• Short consultations. Normally on duty TUESDAY
  MORNINGS (10.30 am - 12.30 pm) and WEDNESDAY AND
  FRIDAY AFTERNOONS (2.00 - 5.00 pm). You dont
  need to book an appointment to see me at these
  times, just ask at the helpdesk in the Careers
  Service.
• Email bw_at_kent.ac.uk

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Location of the Careers Service

• Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays including
  vacations.
• The Careers Web Site www.kent.ac.uk/careers is
  available 24/7

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The University of KentCareers Advisory
ServiceNext week information on all the main
careers in science open to youSlides for this
presentation are at

• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm