Our modern world offers many and varied opportunities for the professional chemist. Recent graduates have chosen careers in industry, education, medicine, crime laboratories, hospitals, and environment protection laboratories. In a changing world, one needs a career which provides stable employment. Chemists have historically had unemployment rates well below the rates of the general population.
Individuals trained as biochemists have a variety of employment opportunities available.
Those choosing not to pursue advanced training in graduate or medical school generally find employment working in a laboratory in an industrial, governmental, or hospital setting. Industries hiring biochemists include, but are not limited to, pharmaceuticals, foods, and the emerging biotechnology industry. Most studies predict a shortage of chemists of all types, making job markets excellent for many years to come.