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Originally Posted by ajiver I've been looking at www.newscientistjobs.com, www.rsc.org, etc, but there appear to be fewer suitable ads. this year than in the previous year. Oxford, Cambridge and London are exactly the places that I'm looking at but hardly any suitable ads. this month. Are you working in industry? I was told that there are fewer jobs in the biological sciences than there are in chemistry.
Actually, ideally I'll like to continue working in a lab. setting but I'm pretty keen to live in the south of England so I'm willing to consider doing something outside the lab. like in administration (regulatory affairs, ect.) but I don't have experience in these areas?
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Chemists are indeed highly sought-after, but biologists seem to get a fair crack at the whip too.
To be honest you're looking at the wrong time of year. Most of the jobs come out just before Christmas time (if you want to go into one of the big companies, as their selection processes are quite long) or in the summer (in time to catch the new graduates (if you want to join a graduate scheme or work in academia). I work in academia in London and got my job by searching Nature and New Scientist jobs every day and just applying to everything that I thought I could do, even if I didn't have the exact qualifications for it. Unless you apply you'll never know. if you want to work in the lab I suggest you stick to that (but be wide-ranging about the labs you look at); in my experience people that have taken jobs outside the lab have founded harder to go back after a period of doing admin.
Good luck with your search - I hope you find what you're looking for soon.
S. x