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This book is intended to help newly graduated chemists, particularly organic chemists, at all levels from bachelors to post-doctorates, find careers in the North American pharmaceutical industry. It will serve as a practical, detailed guidebook for job seekers as well a reference work for faculty advisers, research supervisors, development officers, employment agents, and personnel managers in the industry. The book gathers in a single volume the fundamentals of getting an industrial job as a medicinal or process chemist, and covers all aspects of a chemist's job - scientific, financial, and managerial - within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company. Other scientists looking for jobs as analytical or physical chemists and even biochemists and biologists will find the book useful. The valuable appendix is a unique compendium of 365 commercial, governmental, or non-profit institutions that comprise the North American pharmaceutical industry. It helps you learn how to: discover the 12 permanent, big-pharma jobs for B.S. chemists; use the 500+ company index to locate potential employers; track pharma openings with 190+ corporate and chemist-specific job banks; add industry veterans to; S. and M.S. chemists; express a knowledgeable preference for drug discovery or development; research over 360 drug companies through their Web sites; discover the 70+ firms offering stock purchase plans or stock options and which two represent big pharma; and, find out your salary offer in time to negotiate your wages.

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