Biotech Job Sites

Job boards on the Internet are the most common method of seeking and finding employment. Job boards offer the capability of searching a database of employer-posted positions and submitting individual copies of your resume directly to those companies.

Many will also provide:

• Resume posting on their site to be reviewed by employers and employment agencies that have paid for a subscription
• Registration of your job search criteria and email notifications of new job listings that match your criteria
• Information and resources to manage your job search and your career

Life Science Job Banks

• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
  AAPS is the web portal for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, a professional, scientific society of more than 12,000 members employed in academia, industry, government and other research institutes worldwide.
• American Chemical Society
  ACS is a professional organization requiring membership. Provides job matching service, job postings, employer information, career services, and C&E News Classifieds.
• Bio Career Center
  Bio Career Center is the jobs board of leading life science graduate and medical schools. One of the leading jobs boards for postgraduates, the service is embedded on university websites and provides online career resources and job postings for MS, PhD, and MD candidates and alumni.
• Bio.com Career Center
  Provides life sciences job listings, career resources and job fairs.
• BioSpace Career Center
  Provides bioscience job listings, career resources and job fairs.
• Bioview
  Provides biotechnology and pharmaceutical job listings as well as industry news and research.
• Future Bio Jobs
  Future Bio Jobs lists jobs of companies, recruiters & academia in genomics, bioinformatics, bioMEMS, microfluidics, proteomics and other cutting edge areas.
• Job Science
  Healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical job postings, and career resources.
• Laboratory Network Career Center
  Provides a vertical net career center. Search for jobs, post your resume, and review career resources.
• MedBulletin Career Resource Center
  Search for medical and health care related jobs by speciality or organization.
• Naturejobs
  Naturejobs, the career & recruitment resource of Nature. Naturejobs: Making science work.
• Northstar Recruiting, Inc.
  Specializes in job postings and companies in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics.
• Science Careers
  Provides job listings, job fairs, academic connections, and postings from Science Magazine. Science Careers is affiliated with AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Sciencejobs
  Search for US and international bioscience and chemistry jobs by sector, discipline, location and keyword.
• Scijobs.org
  Biology jobs, chemistry jobs, biochemistry jobs, biotechnology jobs, and a range of related science jobs.

Other Job Site Resources

• National job banks that include all types of jobs such as Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Brassring.com.
• Regional Bay Area job banks such as craigslist.com and BAJobs.com.
• Online classifieds from local newspapers. Job ads from the San Francisco Chronicle are found on BayRecruiter.com. Job Ads from the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times are found on bayarea.com.
• Job Search Engines that let you search many of the major jobs databases at once. Examples include flipdog.com, which pulls job listings directly from company web sites.
• Professional organizations provide specialized job sites for members.
• Universities: The University you graduated from may have an alumni jobs site.

Job Fairs

As Bioscience employment increases in the Bay Area, more and more Job Fairs are being held. Biospace and BIO periodically hold job fairs in the Bay Area. Brassring Job Fairs include an increasing number of Bioscience firms at their events. Even if you do not attend the event, you can obtain the list of participants and check out their websites for specific job openings.