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CDL/WBL session2 2008 Options with a BioScience degree 3.5.12 SHU BioScience Careers Day Ruth Holland Careers Adviser © SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY CAREERS & EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 2012
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CDL/WBL session2 2008
Options with a BioScience degree 3.5.12 SHU BioScience Careers Day
Ruth Holland Careers Adviser
© SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY CAREERS & EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 2012
Session outline
1. Employment options (science & non-science)
2. Further study/education option
3. Other options…
4. Your Careers & Employment service support
5. Sources of further info/resources
Career Plans - where are YOU?How can you move forward to
manage your career or transition successfully?
• I have already decided OR• I have some ideas OR• I have been thinking but have
no firm ideas yet OR• Sometime soon I’ll start getting
some ideas together OR• I don’t even want to think about
it!
Not sure what to do?
• Try Prospects Planner:www.prospects
.ac.uk/links/Pplanner
Employability skills developed by UG BioScientists
Source:/www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/employability/profilebiosci.pdf
Critical analysis
Communicating complex data & concepts
Research methodology
Interpersonal & teamworking skills
Self management
Project management
Problem-solving
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How transferable are your skills?
• As BioScientists you CAN use the skills developed during your degree in a large VARIETY of sectors.
• Employers do value them - listen to this short video clip… What skills do employers value? by Christina Hartshorn, SEEDA
• see more employers video clips on shuspace>My Future>Careers Central
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Other options include careers in:
• agriculture• banking and finance• environmental consultancy• hospitals• human resources• medical writing• patents• pharmaceuticals research & development• regulatory affairs• sales and marketing• science journalism• teaching• water and environmental control.
What do you want from a Biosciences career?
Career Profiles:bite-size videos profiling a variety of people who have studied or are studying science
www.biochemistry.org/Education/Careers/Careerprofiles
Career paths Careers - A Future in Biology www.societyofbiology.org/education/careers/explorebiology/ careerspaths
Graduate careers New Scientist Graduate Careers Special
A Bioscience degree - where and what next? /www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/resources/shortguides/
Examples- 2010 SHU BioSc Grad Destinations
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Sample 2010 SHU BioSc Grads' Job Titles
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What's really out there?
What do UK Graduates do? What do graduates do? | Prospects.ac.uk
National data; Science: Typical employers | Prospects.ac.uk
Gaining a Science graduate job targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/science-research-and-development
FAME database (login via Library Gateway LitSearch)
www.prospects.ac.uk/science/pharmasector
Sample current broad Jobsearch
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Professional insights
Professional bodies; Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) Biochemical Society
Society of Biology
HE Academy Centre for Bioscience
www.bioindustry.org/about/the-uk-bioscience-sector/
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Large Employers' Graduate Recruitment Cycle
• Start recruiting in Autumn - so collect a Directory (get. or prospects) from Careers Centre L5 Owen
• Vacancies AND applications on-line• Interviews usually from mid January• 20% of applicants invited for interview• 2nd Interviews / Assessment Centres from
February• Some organisations recruit all year round• Some organisations don’t market themselves
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Small Employers and Immediate Vacancies recruiting patterns
• Some concentrate on an annual cycle• Others recruit when posts are vacant• Some positions filled on speculative approach
(graduates send CV and Cover Letter)• Some don’t advertise-word of mouth• In industries such as the media, it is the norm
for employees to look for employers – not the other way round.
• Get yourself a good profile on LinkedIn
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Postgraduate or other further study -why?
• Approx 20% graduates each year choose further study or training because it can offer:– Professional/vocational training– Enhanced employment prospects– Intellectual challenge: enjoy studying subject – Delays entry into employment market– Career/subject change.
For overviews of PG Study & course search see: http://www.prospects.ac.uk/postgraduate_study_1.htm
www.findaphd.comwww.findamasters.com
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Postgraduate or other further study - how?
Research CouncilsNote: applications via each University department where
you want to study not direct to the Research Council
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences: www.bbsrc.ac.uk
• Medical Research Council: www.mrc.ac.uk• Natural Environmental: www.nerc.ac.uk
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PG Study - sources of funding(1) University Funding and Employment• Graduate Teaching & Research Assistantships• Scholarships - see www.jobs.ac.uk & individual Uni websites +
Guardian (Tuesday), Times Higher Education (Friday) & specialist publications,
• Access to learning funds/ hardship funds• Part-time campus work• College/Hall tutorship's• Fee flexibility
(2) Loans• Bank loan• Career Development Loans: www.direct.gov.uk/cdl
– Run by high street banks & DfES, borrow £300 - £10000– Always awarded for vocational courses– Repayment begins 1 month after graduation, paid back at fixed rate
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PG Study: more funding sources• Medical Charities
http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/gapp/personalfund/ • MRC
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Studentships/index.htm
• Wellcome Trust http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ • RDF funding http://www.rdfunding.org.uk/• Institutes eg: http://www.pathsoc.org
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Funding: more possibilities……
• Employer-funded• KTP www.ktponline.org.uk
• Research trusts, charities and foundations• The Grants Register• Directory of Grant Making Trusts• The Educational Grants Directory• FunderFinder
• Discretionary Awards• Highly unusual for PGrad courses/ check with LEA
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Time Out/Gap Year – why?• Voluntary work (UK or overseas)• Travel• Short course, extra qualification/s• Get relevant work experience sought by employers• Life/broadens experience before 'settle down'?!• more info see
prospects' working abroad pages and country profiles and Careers Central TakingTimeOut
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Self-EmploymentEntrepreneurs• Around 2% of graduates each year go straight into self-
employment because, for example:• Personality• It’s the 'norm' in certain types of work• Lifestyle choice
See Careers Central Enterprise topic on shuspace
Visit SHU Enterprise Centre (up to 5 yrs after course ends)
What SHU Careers & Employment Service offers you • Finalists: 1:1 appointments with specialist Employment
Advisers (Nikki or Annette). Bookings at Owen Floor 7 BioSc Helpdesk.
• All other years 1:1 Careers Guidance appts book at Owen Level 5 SLS (Careers Centre)
• Electronic career resources on shuspace>My Future tab>Careers Central> Subjects>BioSc
• Graduate Job vacancies via external website - register
Contact us
For all initial enquiries
go to Student & Learning Services at:• City Campus - Level 5 Owen
Tel: 0114 225 3752 • Collegiate Crescent - Heart of the
Campus, Tel: 0114 225 2491
Email: [email protected]
Web: shuspace>My Future tab>Careers & Employment
