What You Ought to Know to Get a Job in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries!
Although industry and academia share a common bond (no pun intended), which is obviously science, the lexicons of these two seemingly similar but parallel worlds are markedly different. For example, do you know what the acronyms IND, NDA, cGMP, cGLP, BLA, CTD, PK or PD stand for? If you cannot decipher any of them, you ought to forget about getting a job in industry and stay in academia. If you know what 95 % or less of them mean, I highly recommend that you get some additional training before applying for your first industrial position. If you are one of the lucky few who recognized and correctly interpreted 100% of the acronyms, you are either working in industry or recently completed some postgraduate training in drug development and regulatory affairs. The point that I am trying to make is that you cannot possibly expect to get a job in industry if can’t speak the language that you need to know in order to succeed! As the old saying goes “You need to learn how to walk before you can run”.
So, take the test and your score will determine whether you are ready to apply for that long sought after job in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
Footnote: For those of you who are interested, you can decipher all of the acronyms that I listed by visiting and rooting around the FDA website.
Until next time….
Good Luck and Good Job Hunting!!!!!!!!!
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