Dated April 19, 2006
(Questions answered on career concerns)
What are the career prospects for postgraduates in Biochemistry?
Jayan
Thrissur
A Biochemistry degree can give you a choice of career openings in industry, commerce, medicine, research and teaching. Biochemistry graduates can find employment in a variety of specialist areas including microbial, plant and animal biochemistry and biotechnology, clinical chemistry, molecular genetics, forensic science, food technology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals.
Non-scientific career options for recent graduates include teaching, administrative and managerial posts, medical representatives and the retail industry.
Remuneration usually depends on the position / status of your job profile. One can also get into research or can take up teaching in colleges/ schools.
What are the career prospects for chemical engineers?
Manasa
Chennai
Opportunities for chemical and biochemical engineers exist in industries such as pulp and paper manufacture for newspapers, personal care products such as cosmetics, food and drink, drugs and medicines, textiles and materials, oil and gas, energy, water and metallurgy for vehicles and furniture.
Other fields include the nuclear industry, cryogenic engineering, propellants for space exploration, microchip development and production, and the biotechnology industry.
Chemical engineers are always in demand and there are opportunities to reach senior managerial positions, often at a relatively young age.
It is not unusual to find chemical engineers on the boards of large multinational companies.
What are the career prospects for materials engineering?
Satya Rohit
Hyderabad
Materials engineers work in many industries including construction engineering, building services, electronics, shipbuilding, aerospace, power generation, railways, vehicle, consumer and sports goods manufacture.
Opportunities for moving up in one's career normally depends upon the size of the organisation. Typical progression routes include movement into project and strategic management roles, specialisation in a particular aspect of materials development and testing, research and consultancy work.
What are the career prospects for disaster management?
Abhinav Mehta
Via email
You can find job openings with government and non-government agencies. Large industrial establishments, particularly those in the high-risk fields like chemicals, mining, and petroleum have disaster management cells.
The International Red Cross and some UN organisations also empanel trained professionals for working on humanitarian missions to handle major calamities and emergencies.
What is the best way to structure a resume? Can you give me some tips on how to write a `standout' resume?
Piyush Dak
Jaipur
The most important thing about structuring the resume is to know your reader. What kind of resume you should use depends on the intended audience and on you. It is not a `one-size-fits-all' deal. People applying to financial firms, consulting firms should use a strict chronological resume with dates on the left. People applying for more creative positions would want a resume that looks different - more energetic and free flowing. People applying across fields, career changers, may find that a functional resume works better.
So the bottom line is to match your style to your employer and to remember that a resume is a marketing tool, not a career obituary. It should be filled with the same qualities and the same energy that you think the employer is looking for.
I am doing MSc (Final) in Biotechnology from BHU, Varanasi . Please advise me what I should do after completing my post graduation to secure a good job.
Sunder Mahajan
Kanpur
Post-graduates in biotechnology are employed in pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies, agriculture and allied industries. Opportunities are also available in the areas of planning, production and management of bio-processing industries, organic chemical industries and in pollution control activities of major industries and research laboratories. Production, industrial research, academic research, planning and marketing are the major tasks involved.
I have done my graduation in BA, English. I have also finished my freehand model drawing, painting (higher grade) conducted by the Tamil Nadu Government Technical Examination. I would like to know the creative fields and jobs applicable with my qualification. Kindly advise how to proceed.
Raja
Coimbatore
You can enhance your chances for a career in the creative field by taking up a course in graphic designing or multimedia and thereby specialise as an animator or a graphic designer. You can then apply to animation studios as an artist. Alternatively, you can pursue a B.Ed course and seek employment in schools.
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