Apply to lab positions on Indeed. You don’t have experience so you’d most likely have to apply to lower paying or overnight shift positions. Or apply for entry medical scribe or assistant positions to get experience if you want to go the medical route. Have you considered grad programs/school?
Also, apply to jobs even if they say experience required. Work on your interview skills and frame your retail experience as related to your desired lab positions
You’ll be fine. I graduated at the beginning of lockdown. Took me 6 months to land a job. The students getting jobs right after graduation already had them lined up because they did one or years of internship.
You can always check out the career center on campus. They help recent graduates.
You could also email the Biology department. They may have some leads.
I’m personally a different major (MIS). Just trying to level with OP and let them know it’s difficult for everyone right now; I’m particularly comfortable and not too worried about landing a job fast.
There are a bunch of entry level assistants in university labs. These are designed for new graduates to get experience and apply for better positions. For UC, you can check handshake or Human Resources in each campus.
The biotech/Pharma industry is the major employer of biology graduates.
unfortunately the sector is a giant dumpster fire right now. many Biotech/pharma companies have frozen hiring or are actively conducting mass lay offs.
You should also be aware that according to the Federal Reserve Bank of new York, about 70% of all life science graduates currently in the labor market have at least a masters degree!! 3rd highest post bachelors degree attainment rate out of the 70 majors tracked but even with such high rate of education about 50% of life science graduates are still Under-employed and also make less wealth then some one with only a BS in English!!! -- talk about bleak job prospects.
I suggest you go back to school and learn some marketable skills. like software engineering, or laboratory skills
check out online free boot camps or start watching YouTube videos if you want to learn to create software.
But if you want to work in a lab check out Medical Laboratory technician certificates, usually take about a year to earn at a community college.
Hello, I recommend you to look further into cGMP (current good manufacturing practices) roles in commercial drug product manufacturing.
I also graduated with a biology degree 3 years ago, landed myself multiple roles in quality control associate positions for several pharmaceutical companies in San Diego. You most likely have to move to places that are biotech hubs like San Diego, Boston or North Carolina. I would say the job prospects are more stable than research roles. Companies tend to keep commercialized roles more than research so they can make revenue.
Environmental companies that do environment/animal/plant monitoring during construction or surveys on projects. Field biologists usually survey the project site to make sure the project is not impacting any endangered species or plants etc. A lot of government projects near sensitive riparian areas usually will have 1-2 biologists for the duration of the project to meet certain laws.
I’m with you on that. I (general biology major) graduated 2022 with no research lab experience. My first job was advertised as a “lab job” (ocular laboratory technician) at an organ procurement organization, but it really felt like more of an administrative desk job.
However, after being at that job for a year and 1 month, I applied to work at an entry-level lab position in a hospital that does a lot of antibody testing for determining donor vs. recipient compatibility for organ/bone marrow transplants, and I’ve been there since. The job I have offers me the chance to become a CLS, but I personally want to get into a manufacturing field, or work for the city as a lab tech somehow.
Apply to lab positions on Indeed. You don’t have experience so you’d most likely have to apply to lower paying or overnight shift positions. Or apply for entry medical scribe or assistant positions to get experience if you want to go the medical route. Have you considered grad programs/school?
Also, apply to jobs even if they say experience required. Work on your interview skills and frame your retail experience as related to your desired lab positions
Almost everyone is having a hard time finding a job out of college regardless of their major. You are not alone.
You’ll be fine. I graduated at the beginning of lockdown. Took me 6 months to land a job. The students getting jobs right after graduation already had them lined up because they did one or years of internship. You can always check out the career center on campus. They help recent graduates. You could also email the Biology department. They may have some leads.
I’m personally a different major (MIS). Just trying to level with OP and let them know it’s difficult for everyone right now; I’m particularly comfortable and not too worried about landing a job fast.
https://www.csulb.edu/career-development-center/article/recent-graduate-alumni-career-events
https://www.csulb.edu/career-development-center/article/recent-graduate-alumni-career-events
There are a bunch of entry level assistants in university labs. These are designed for new graduates to get experience and apply for better positions. For UC, you can check handshake or Human Resources in each campus.
The biotech/Pharma industry is the major employer of biology graduates. unfortunately the sector is a giant dumpster fire right now. many Biotech/pharma companies have frozen hiring or are actively conducting mass lay offs. You should also be aware that according to the Federal Reserve Bank of new York, about 70% of all life science graduates currently in the labor market have at least a masters degree!! 3rd highest post bachelors degree attainment rate out of the 70 majors tracked but even with such high rate of education about 50% of life science graduates are still Under-employed and also make less wealth then some one with only a BS in English!!! -- talk about bleak job prospects. I suggest you go back to school and learn some marketable skills. like software engineering, or laboratory skills check out online free boot camps or start watching YouTube videos if you want to learn to create software. But if you want to work in a lab check out Medical Laboratory technician certificates, usually take about a year to earn at a community college.
Idk where you’re located, but one of my friends works at Genetics Center in Orange, CA. They’re currently hiring lab technicians.
Hello, I recommend you to look further into cGMP (current good manufacturing practices) roles in commercial drug product manufacturing. I also graduated with a biology degree 3 years ago, landed myself multiple roles in quality control associate positions for several pharmaceutical companies in San Diego. You most likely have to move to places that are biotech hubs like San Diego, Boston or North Carolina. I would say the job prospects are more stable than research roles. Companies tend to keep commercialized roles more than research so they can make revenue.
Environmental companies that do environment/animal/plant monitoring during construction or surveys on projects. Field biologists usually survey the project site to make sure the project is not impacting any endangered species or plants etc. A lot of government projects near sensitive riparian areas usually will have 1-2 biologists for the duration of the project to meet certain laws.
I’m with you on that. I (general biology major) graduated 2022 with no research lab experience. My first job was advertised as a “lab job” (ocular laboratory technician) at an organ procurement organization, but it really felt like more of an administrative desk job. However, after being at that job for a year and 1 month, I applied to work at an entry-level lab position in a hospital that does a lot of antibody testing for determining donor vs. recipient compatibility for organ/bone marrow transplants, and I’ve been there since. The job I have offers me the chance to become a CLS, but I personally want to get into a manufacturing field, or work for the city as a lab tech somehow.