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Top 5 PhD Employers In Biotech/Biopharma - YouTube
Channel: Cheeky Scientist
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- Hello and welcome to another
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whiteboard Wednesday training.
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I'm Isaiah Hankel, Cheeky Scientist,
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and today we're talking about the top five
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employers for PhDs in the biotech
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and biopharmaceutical industries.
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This is based on data
from a large-scale survey
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done by Fortune magazine.
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Now, there is one caveat to this.
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Only the largest companies were polled
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because they had enough employees
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and easy enough access
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to those employees to poll them.
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I do want to make it clear
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that if you're looking
for a job in industry,
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especially as a PhD, don't just consider
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the top companies that
everybody has heard of.
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You want to also consider small,
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"small", to midsize companies.
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Now, in industry small is not the same
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as it is in academia.
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A small academic lab
could have five people,
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could have two people, could
have one person really.
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But in industry small means
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a hundred to a thousand employees.
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Midsize means a thousand
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to several thousands employees.
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And large of course
are the large companies
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like some of those companies
we're gonna talk about
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that have tens of thousands employees,
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sometimes more.
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That's important to realize.
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If you're looking for a job,
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do not exclude small or midsize companies.
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Look for those companies,
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google them just by searching
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in your location small biotech companies,
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in your location midsize
pharmaceutical companies.
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All right, so what are
the top five companies?
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And these are the top five companies
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for PhDs to work for, as in the PhD
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gets a job and they're happy.
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I can tell you in our
Cheeky Scientist Association
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we have over 4,000 members now
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and those who get jobs,
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they go one or two directions.
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They're in a hurry to get a job
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and they just get a job
based on the job title
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or salary or the brand of the company
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as in how big the name is of the company,
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and sometimes they realize later
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that their company is not
aligned with their values,
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is not aligned with their purpose.
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This survey showed that PhDs who are happy
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and people in general who are happy
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that get jobs at these companies,
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they're happy because their values
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are aligned with the company's values.
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Their purpose is aligned
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with the company's purpose.
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So they're onboard with what
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the company's trying to achieve,
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with the company culture as a whole.
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Okay, those two things came up
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over and over again in the survey,
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purpose, values.
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This is why in our Cheeky
Scientist Association
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we have something called
the transition plan
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that helps you figure out
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what your professional values are,
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what is your professional purpose,
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and helps you build a
professional lifestyle
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that you want and then fit a company
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to that lifestyle, not
the other way around.
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Don't join a company, become a team member
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and then try to fit your lifestyle
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and your value to that company.
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That's gonna be a disaster.
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All right, so what are
the top five companies?
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Number one, and I don't think these
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are in any particular order,
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these are just the top five overall
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as reported by this Fortune survey.
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Number one is Horizon Pharmaceuticals.
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97% of employees reported that they were
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very happy with the company,
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specifically with the
company's communication.
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It might seem that
something like communication
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at the company isn't enough
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to make it a great place to work for,
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one of the best places
for PhDs to work for,
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but it does.
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Over and over again
there's lots of studies
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that show what will make you happy
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working at a company is transparency,
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how transparent is that company
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in terms of what their
corporate strategies are,
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what your role is.
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If you go into a company,
there's no transparency,
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no communication, it feels
like everybody's your boss,
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you don't know what you're supposed to do,
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you don't know what the
company's goals are,
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you don't feel like
you're able to communicate
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your needs or your desires to the company,
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you're gonna be miserable.
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When you see 97% of the employees
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at Horizon Pharmaceuticals are happy
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with the communication, it's no wonder
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that it's one of the
best places to work for.
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Number two, Genetech.
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Especially if you're in the life sciences,
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if you're a STEM PhD, you
know the name Genetech.
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Genetech is really well-known because
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they're kind of an outlier in industry.
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For the most part when it comes
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to your publications in academia,
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they don't matter to most of the companies
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you're gonna be applying to.
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They simply don't matter.
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There're a select few
companies like Genetech
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where publications do matter.
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This isn't a good or bad thing,
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it just means that Genetech's run
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almost as an extension of academia.
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Like if you blurred a
typical industry company
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with a typical academic institution,
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put them together, the child of that
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would be Genetech.
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Why are people happy at Genetech?
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90%, a little bit more than 90%,
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say that there's great
challenges at Genetech.
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In other words, they're doing
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very innovative things
that are challenging
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and they enjoy the work.
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For PhDs this matters.
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One of our core needs as a PhD
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is to do innovative work.
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In fact, to get a PhD, you can't just
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master the field, you have
to push the field forward.
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So believe it or not,
whether you know it or not,
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you need that challenge.
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Number three, and I love this company,
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Regeneron Pharamceuticals.
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93% of their employees report
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excellent communication,
but 93% also report
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excellent support from their bosses.
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They have an incredible
leadership team at Regeneron.
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What I love about Regeneron is Regeneron
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got to where it was because it had
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a PhD as its CEO for a long time,
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and that PhD just did an incredible job
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building up their company.
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If you look at their stock,
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the company's doing very well.
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In our Cheeky Scientist Association
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we actually have an individual
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who is an associate director at Regeneron.
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It's been an amazing experience
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watching her climb in that company
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and hire more associates
into that company.
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Regeneron is a great company to work for.
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I highly recommend checking it out
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if you haven't, they're based in New York.
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Number four, AbbVie.
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93% report that they love the culture
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and atmosphere at AbbVie.
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They say they have fun, they like the way
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that things are set up.
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And culture is not just
what you wear to work,
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but can you show up when you want to
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as long as you get your work done,
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or do you have to be
there at a certain time?
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What are the internal processes,
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the internal power structures?
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This is culture, it's a much bigger thing
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than you might be thinking.
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At AbbVie they love the culture.
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Same thing with Illumina.
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95% report loving the culture.
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I love Illumina too.
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It's a great company.
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They're doing very innovative things.
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I recommend checking them out too,
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if you haven't heard of Illumina.
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Also 97% of the employees
said that they're proud
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to be a team member at Illumina.
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That really stuck out at me.
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When you work for a company to have
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that kind of, that feeling like you like
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belonging to the company, like being known
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as a team member at that company,
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it's a big thing.
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So check out these five companies
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but don't stop there.
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Look at other companies, small companies,
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midsize companies.
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Make sure you're finding the company
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that is a good fit for you.
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Don't just try to fit
yourself into any company.
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Don't try to just change who you are.
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Try to first define what
you want professionally,
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what your professional values are,
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your professional purposes,
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what professional lifestyle you want,
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and then fit a company to that.
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If you want to learn more about this,
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specifically how to
find out about companies
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that are hiring right now and how to find
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the right company and the
right position for you,
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go to phdsgethired.com.
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phdsgethired.com.
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It's gonna take you to a page
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where you can put in your email address
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and your name and you're gonna be sent
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all of our free materials,
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all of our free ebooks,
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our free webinars that we have coming up
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on how to craft your resume,
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your LinkedIn profile, and we'll show you
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how to find the right company
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and right position that's
a good fit for you.
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If you have any questions on this,
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please ask them in a comment on this post,
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depending on where you're seeing it.
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And I'll see you next week
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with another whiteboard
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Wednesday training video.
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