It will provide you with a glossary of common industry terms provide specific tips about how you land a job. And it will provide you with a background to the industry that will help you sound like you're an old pro. Driven by robust growth and the likely expectation of multiple breakthrough technologies and products from within biotech, the industry is positioned for a prosperous entry into the new millennium.
Opportunities abound, particularly for people with scientific or technical backgrounds.
MBAs who forego the astronomical salaries of consulting and banking will be blessed with a more palatable work-life balance, and more often than not, some of the best benefits packages around. MDs can find engaging work with regular hours and reliably good pay that is also free of the daily hassles of managed care medicine. Above all, anyone who chooses to work in the industry has the very real satisfaction of knowing that they are laboring to produce drugs that could make a radical difference in the lives of thousands, even millions, of people.