the work of doing your master and phd is the experience it self. Do u think the company can find experience ppl so easily in malaysia? If got also company willing take experience bachelor degree or fresh master/phd?

good news people..!!

i just came back from a launching at iskandar...

they require at least 2000 biotechnologist by 2012!!!

good news people..!!

i just came back from a launching at iskandar...

they require at least 2000 biotechnologist by 2012!!!

Hi, sorry if I made you misunderstand. I am referring to cherlynIN's post:

"hey well i m the postgraduate of the biotech, so it is true that it damn hard to get a job in biotech relate field after those biotech postgraduate student graduate. I thought they say that our government are encourage the develop of biotech industry in m'sia? Frankly i m kinda of scared after c what u guy said"

I just wanna say it is a need to survey for the job market before you decide something, for example furthering your studies. There is no point in going to phd just because "most of my friends did it". And then got scared after realizing there are limited job offers.
I did life science because I love it, without checking out its job opportunities, job scope,.....etc. I regretted for not thinking thorough enough before I took my degree. But at the end of the day, I never regret taking my course because I found my passion and love in science. The dream of changing the world into a better place, environmental-wise or medical-wise, is still in us science graduates, no matter how stupid it sounds to others.

I think we all life science graduates should have more confidence in ourselves and all the knowledge we have, even if we have to do sales or pathology lab assistants to feed ourselves for the time being, we shouldn't let our dreams die. We should keep learning and updating ourselves, read journals and science news even if you've left the university, the passion is very important!

@xavier
i am one of the exhibitors...so what has upper management gotta do with the number of biotechnologist required?

@fenris wolf
there is this region called the SiLC where they will be focusing on R & D in biotech work. 2000 is just a rough figure. one of the top people from khazanah told me...if they could not get 2000+ ppl to handle the plants/labs..they afraid the whole project might fall apart...

if u want black n white proof then i am sorry..no..

but i just want give some hope to biotech graduates....that all is not lost...=)

Ummm u said it right, but i never regret with what the choice i had made and i never follow my friend path. All the time, i think that biotech are the one that always play the noble role in life science field. Even when sometime u don't even care what other think while other look at biotech as if like a crap, u still cont on ur  dream. But u do scare when all other are ready to look at how u going to fail while u do really had all the passion and convince in doing all the hardwork u had work on all this time but in the end u find out the result going to be zero, frankly u do freak out.

what is SiLC?

wat i try to mention here is biotech de company require a more specific skills u hav like microbiology, molecular biology o plant tissue culture.. for master grad to enter a job in m'sia market, da company will look for a experience ppl rather thn u a fresh master grad..

ya.. it gt to do wif it becoz tht race of ppl onli juz say but no action have been done.. if nt, y m'sia still haven't develop in da biotech field?? y dey r many biotech grads still can't job n hav to switch field?? u mentioned 2000++ ppl, u say it was mentioned by top people fr khazanah rite?? thn wich race conquer the top management?? n u say no relate at all.. if no relate, i tink u also would nt knw da "2000++" biotechnologist.. for eg.. da government do say it nid alot of doctor in sarawak.. u knw y dey mention it?? dey wan to attract ppl to vote for them becoz dey are da one hav da capabilities to employ ppl.. last but not least, i hope wat u mention about da amount of biotechnologist is true and being rude for some phrases tht i mentioned juz nw becoz juz felt tired wif the government...

because malaysia still don have the necessary labs and so on to start with...

and u say many...can give some rough figures?...cause if biotechnologist compared with doctors....its still less..correct me if i am wrong..

u can't compare the problem with biotech and doc la bro..

in sarawak..nobody wants to go there cause there so ulu(although the iskandar region also in the middle of no where)...and there are already plenty of jobs for doctors in semenanjung...so why bother going there?

for biotech is diff..whole malaysia every corner also not enough biotech ppl...biotech graduates cannot find good jobs..most of them go to fields unrelated to biotech..for doctor..no matter how..most of the time u still got job to do...

but if u ask me what exactly are those 2000+ going to do at iskandar..i really can't answer u la..

in general would be more research...but in a more suitable environment and hpefully, better pay.

I agreed with what you say. It's really depend on what skills you gain during the project. but, what i have to say is that not all the biotech courses offered good final year projects for the student. depend on the grant and the university. but, i will still think that there is also a chance for fresh grad to get a job,provided that there are company who want to train you into that field. I would say these companies is hard to find. but just keep searching. Like what i said,even someone got the interview, doesn't mean that i got the offer. Unless,you really force by life, you have burden, than, you really have to grab up any job that offer to you.Most of the fresh grad,they simply enter any field, because they want moneys. But, i doesn't deny they are wrong, because those fields really can be earn alot compared to people who really want to be a scientist. i am still alright at the moment, and i cannot deny that i might follow their path if i really can't get what i want. JUst hope that i can be the lucky one to be chosen to train by company. The purpose i open this thread is to let Biotech student or fresh grad to be get prepared that what they will be facing after graduated. And hope that people who  really lucky to got a job in science fields can give some advise,and experience for them as a guidelines.

I guess I can tell you how much I understand the feeling. My father kept hinting me to go for medicine or engineering since I finished STPM. Until the day I completed my honours project, he was still saying I was too ignorant and stubborn to go choose something so "useless". For 3 months I was depressed, I sent out nearly hundred of emails for job applications and got nothing, providing that I got my degree in Aus, it was even more stressful to have spend so much money and not getting a job.  Now I am working, and my dad finally shuts up and stops worrying and let me do what I wanna do.

So the hard times won't last long, so don't worry, but stay alert with the job market all over the world. All the best.

to be honest, iskandar project doesnt look to bright either. Another gimmick by the gov to boost the economy temporarily.

to be honest, iskandar project doesnt look to bright either. Another gimmick by the gov to boost the economy temporarily.

they dont need to increase salary, they need to reduce the prices of things out there. And that can only be done by stabilizing the economy back. Else, increasing the salary would be useless if the prices of goods keep increasing as well.

Can anyone in biotech who is currently doing biotech-related jobs tell what really a company wants. A fren of mine did bioinformatics even till master. he can programme very-very well. he got many interviews but still they say he lack skills. what skill actually? still he could not get jobs in biotech related company.

Another fren got so frustrated searched a job in Europe and now working in Germany receiving 3.5k EURO. He was a fresh graduate with no exp from UKM (who says local grads got no class).