Employers
Who Are/Will Be Hiring
Biotechnology
is the one "tech sector" of the
Bay Area economy least affected by the 2001
economic downturn. Hiring demand should be
steady to increasing through 2003 based on
(1) continued business growth, (2) expanded
technology application, and (3) high levels
of venture capital investment.
The
greatest number of opportunities exists in
companies focusing on human diagnostics and
human therapeutics such as Genentech, and
CV Therapeutics, Inc.
Other
types of companies focus on the agricultural,
veterinary, food/chemical, and environmental
aspects of biotechnology. Hospitals, pharmaceutical
companies, the California Department of Health,
and universities also employ individuals in
this field.
In
addition to all of the companies you'll find
using the steps in the following section,
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
and Stanford Genome Project are other sources
worthy of investigation.
In
general, smaller companies offer more variety
and exposure to new things, and larger companies
pay higher but might have more narrowly defined
jobs which could get boring.
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