Our recommendations for further browsing around professions, careers with and without a bioscience background.
Career paths for biologists
- Botenstoff (Podcast about career paths for biologists; German only)
- Career Navigators Podcast (A podcast about the career journey from academia into the non-academic world)
- Extrapyramidal Pathways (Source of career fields for (neuro)biologists)
- myIDP (A unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences)
- Pharma-Starter (Information about jobs in the pharmaceutical industry; German only)
- WILA Arbeitsmarkt (Science store: Job offers, activity reports, free application hotline, etc.; German only)
Professional associations, societies, etc.
- Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften & Biomedizin in Deutschland (umbrella organization for biologists, bioscientists and biomedical scientists)
- btS – Biotechnologische Studenteninitiative (initiative of committed students and doctoral candidates in the life sciences; German only)
- Berufsvertretung deutscher Biologen e. V. (professional association of German biologists) (professional representation of biologists in all questions concerning the profession)
Biologenbüros (information on independent biologists in Germany)
- European Countries Biologists Organisation (umbrella organization for biological associations in Europe and for biologists)
- EurProBiol (Association of biologists in European countries)
Job exchanges (e.g. for biologists)
- Absolventa (Jobs for students, graduates and young professionals; German only)
- Academics (The largest selection of jobs in science, research and development; German only)
- Biologie.de (Biological jobs and news; German only)
- Bio-M (networking agency for the biotechnology industry in Munich and Bavaria)
- Bionity (Information about biotechnology, life sciences, pharma, diagnostics, medicine)
- Jobvector (job exchange and career guide for all in the STEM field; German only)
- Life Science Nord (Network of companies, universities, research institutions and authorities from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein)
- Nature Jobs (Worldwide job offers of the Nature Publishing Group )
- Science Careers (International job offers and blog on careers in science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Science-Jobs.de (Job postings from scientists for scientists at Heidelberg University)
- Stellenanzeigen.de (job advertisements and interesting facts about job applications; German only)
- T5 JobBörse (career guide that provides pharmaceutical and technical jobs worldwide, as well as a wide range of other attractive and lucrative jobs; German only)
Blogs about job applications, careers and work in general
- Berufebilder (blog focusing on education, career, future, human resources & management)
- Bewerbung.net (information and tips for job applications)
- JobBlog (all about job and career; German only)
- Karrierebibel (Success tips for your career, German only)
- Whatchado (People, Stories & Jobs on Video)
- LVQ Career Blog (Career and Continuing Education)
School/transition to university
- CyberMentor (Germany’s largest online mentoring program for girls in STEM; German only)
- MINTFIT (Test your knowledge in math, physics and chemistry before you go to university)
Recruitment agency
Projekt-Team (personnel consulting for the pharmaceutical and medical technology sectors, among others)
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