Finding a mentor can help you advance your career, but it can sometimes be difficult to choose the best one. There are many factors that go into choosing a mentor who will be effective, objective, but still motivated to help you get where you want to go. A manager, recruiter, or your friend might not be the best choices for you.  A manager, for instance, might present a conflict of interest in certain situations, and they probably won’t have the time to help you.  A recruiter just won’t do it–a recruiter’s primary concern is to please their clients (the hiring company) and he or she won’t have time, either.  A friend might be unable to give you any constructive criticism out of a desire to remain your friend!

Even though it can seem difficult to find a mentor, I can’t emphasize enough how valuable a mentor can be to your career.  A mentor in your field has been there, done that, and can help you advance while also keep you from making mistakes.  A mentor can see the big picture of your career, but still knows how to coach you through the details.  Example:  I recently coached someone through the interview process.  We worked on his presentation, his answers to interview questions, documents like his 30/60/90-day sales plan and brag book, and his negotiation skills–and he got the job, with a ,000 base pay increase! 

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   In the June 22, 2008, held the morning of the second session of the China Bio-Business Conference “Pharmaceutical biotechnology market forward with its development prospects,” sub-forum, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Disease Control and Prevention researcher at the virus Hou Germany introduced the present the progress of the world’s biomedical market.

HOU Yun-De pointed out that presently, the new biotechnology, such as the prevention and therapy of cancer, diabetes, AIDS and autoimmune illnesses, which includes much more than 200 kinds of new drugs and vaccines, there are 418 kinds of biological medicines and vaccines undergoing clinical trials with a view to treatment of 200 kinds of the above illnesses, including several kinds of cancer, Alzheimer’s illness, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, AIDS and arthritis.

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Nanotechnology researchers are often troubled by lack of availability of biotechnology goods. Nevertheless, now research itself is becoming claimed to have located a solution.

Nanotechnology investigation is an ever growing location of science, and scientists working in its realm use a variety of substances to develop atomic scale structures. To solve their problem of shortage of raw materials, scientists at the Arizona State University’ Biodesign Institute plan to use cells as manufacturing units to make DNA based nanostructures in a living cell.

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A biotechnology career is based on food science, agriculture, medicine and biology. A number of institutions in the country offer a degree in cell and tissue technologies and cover topics such as genetic engineering. Biotechnology is supported by a number of additional branches of study and these include genetics, environmental science, agriculture, computing and environmental science. Professionals in biotechnology jobs are engaged in applying the latest molecular techniques in a bid to solve current environmental and industrial problems.

It has been observed that as many as 85% of biotechnology graduates are absorbed in full time positions within six months of their undergraduate course completion. As many as 90% of them have managed to bag jobs directly connected to their field of study. These biotech jobs are spread across a wide variety of fields including the health sector, technical positions, clinical jobs, product development, hospital laboratory jobs and other areas of scientific research.

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