National Biotechnology Education Center
Careers and Entrepreneurship
Ignite your students’ passion for biology
Biotech-Careers.org is a highly visited resource that provides biotech job career descriptions, day-in-the-life stories, blogs about biotech, job boards and one of the largest biotech employer databases. Our mission is to increase student interest in biotech-related careers by raising awareness of career opportunities and providing clear pathways for all individuals with an emphasis on entry-level positions.
What we can do for you:
- Arrange a Zoom presentation for your students on using Biotech-Careers.org to explore careers and find jobs.
- Talk about collaborating. We are especially interested in working with student groups and biotech clubs on adding and updating company information. A great company database helps you, too!
- Discuss developing industry relevance for your grants.
- Share a class activity that you have developed.
Biotech-Careers is a comprehensive resource
We are living in the century of biology. Vaccines are winning the pandemic battle, the biotech industry is rapidly growing, and biotechnology, synthetic biology, and genomics are top priorities for government investment. Biology is the future, and the future is here. Your students may know that new biomedical technologies can treat once incurable diseases. But, do they know that biotechnology products are being used in tennis shoes, fabric dyes, and food, and that biotechnology is beginning to play a major role in addressing climate change, pollution, and food security? Our data show that when students learn about the variety of biotechnology jobs and diversity of biotechnology specialties, they become more interested in learning biology and pursuing biotechnology careers.
Biotech-Careers.org is a comprehensive career information resource, used in college and high school classrooms throughout the USA. It combines education materials and job board capabilities with an extensive employer database. Students explore Biotech-Careers.org in ways that focus on people (alumni profiles, videos), places (hundreds of interactive maps), and things (topics in biotech and company key words). Together, these resources show the value of learning biology and help students identify potential careers.
Biotech-Careers.org makes an impact
Biotech-Careers.org is used in college and high-school classrooms throughout the USA. Surveys consistently indicate the site’s importance in increasing student / teacher, awareness of the variety of biotechnology jobs and diversity of biotechnology specialties, increasing student interest in pursuing careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic we demonstrated biotechnology’s significant role by identifying employers working on diagnostics, vaccines, therapies, and 200 other business areas. Over 600 COVID-19 related employers have been added since March 2020.
Collaborating ATE Projects:
- A Bridge to Bio-Link's Future & Biotech Careers
- A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments
- Enhancing Minnesota's Science Technician Workforce
- Implementation of an Industry-Recognized Credentialing System for Biotechnicians
- Skills for Biomedical Emerging Technology Applications
- Work-Based Biotechnology Education from High School to Community College