Do any one agree that biotechnology graduate is really hard to find a good pay job in malaysia?

welcome all biotechnology graduate to leave a comment or anyone of you who have friends that is a biotechnology graduate but got a good job in malaysia to give opinion.

Agreed. I was a biotech graduate and i ended up working in insurance industry

Gonna be agreeing with this soon. Biotech, soon to be grad here. Got job offers, all non-biotech related. Anyway i didnt bother putting effort into trying to apply for biotech positions either

biotech grad here also, never had a high pay job until now.

the true biotech grad that has a job in the science field are busy doing their experiment or analsing result,s giving presentations rather than sitting in front of the computer surfing LYN

I think what he referred to was the scarcity of jobs in this field and the pay that somehow doesnt equal up to other fields?

U seem to be a big fan of biotech and u keep saying it has bright future. Makes me wonder how much u are earning in ur bio-related company

This post has been edited by cutejams2004: May 10 2010, 10:09 AM

haha.. earning enough

Pay is good when u become the head of the department. Scarcity is of course less than the jobs available for other sectors such as banking, insurance. etc which doesnt require any specific field of study because anyone can take up that job. Meaning higher level of competition for that job.

Chemistry is another good field. I think better than biotech since the got more chances of employability.

Me a big fan of biotech? lol.. because im stuck in this field so trying to console myself..hahahahha

i suppose most of the grads could stand an edge if they are applying to health, beauty cosmetics, environment, pharmaceutical, food industry etc fields.

they can be either going to work at research dept, or even sales and marketing, production lines, quality control, HR, etc as they possess the knowledge of understanding the sciences. if u have the right communication sklls, i don't see why u can't move to management level.

yes. But i think they are referring to science based positions such as scientist/lab officer/RA's and so on. Entering sales/qc/ and other divisions are not hard, its just that some who studied biotech prefer to be in the R&D division itself, which is pretty much lacking in malaysia.

malaysia less develop in biotech industry, of course it will not hav a high paid for those bio tech worker. since it is a less demand industry

errmm..i got one friend..bio tech grad..

now become research assistant at a public u..

Meaning he/she is pursuing his/her masters in science:nod: Thats one option, but not everyone would have the chance to do so. Anyhow, if one is optimistic and willing to step into another field, then i think there should be no problems on finding a job.

errrrrrr.....that's because he told me he ntg do..then this guy call him then only he go help...i dunno whether he doing masters or not...

after he graduated..he worked for a few company doing part time jobs...then go be volunteer...

but he's enjoying what he's doing...

i dunno about other people lor...

hi there,

i am a biotech grad (MSc). I agreed that r and d job that related to biotech is really hard to find. somemore, what biotechnology course give us is just a basic of almost every science subjects. Like me, i am not doing any majoring, but just biotechnology. Having sending a loy of application and no interview for me at all. The only one interview that i get is about molecular biology. the people end up sayting that because i am not majoring in molecular biology, therefore, he dont want to risk his company to hire a general science degree holder. I think i am having a wrong judement lasttime to believe the government effort to invest in biotechnology field. what the interview i got now is just insurance and also sales company. Didnt see any prospect in staying in biotech anymore.

Really regret that i didnt join a slimming company to become their trained nutritionist after i got my degree but i go into Msc. Now i want to find the same job, it's impossible. I have miss the golden chance.

Any biotech people out there who really involve themself in r and d or other fields, pls send respond to let other biotech grad to know what else industry they can be involved in ......i really run out of idea.


Advise to people who going to do a degree course, dont go into biotech but go into chemistry or pharmacy, cause these courses know formulation which really needed by food tech, drug, qc OR qa COMPANY.

Ok, I am a biotech graduate (BSc Hons.), my work is about bioinformatics!

so means u wasted 2 yrs doing your masters? Now working in a totally unrelated field do u regret?

Not in Malaysia, but developed countries will need bio tech like Singapore.

And they have enough grads from their own unis too.

hi, i want to go into bioinfo too, but they say i dont know java, perl........

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Added on May 20, 2010, 8:36 pmnot regret. cause i gt mine in oversea. i think i am lucky at least i experience different things b4. i actually working in UK before i decided to come back. I didn't realized that it is so hard to find a biotech in Malaysia, i thought after a few years, government should have set up many companies. but end up same things. Now still looking for ideal job. wondering is there any biotech grad face the same things like me.

(actually i enjoy doing the course very much).

This post has been edited by Bravo Fashion Trends: May 20 2010, 08:36 PM

Yes, there is a learning curve. My degree and honours year did not teach me programming langauges and IT skills too, i'm more to biochemistry research and lab work, not to the biotech side and not to the bioinfo side too.
But it is good enough if you have the cell biology basic, just have to learn the IT part (thats what im doing now everyday, and to be honest, its tough!)

Have you been to interview anyway? Do you mean the interviewers said that you are not eligible because you don't know java and perl?