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Originally Posted by Tony Schofield  A PhD won't necessarily give you a bigger salary but it may get you selected ahead of a candidate without one.
Many companies have graduate training programmes. I remember being advised that this was the appropriate route into industry as a PhD narrowed your speciality. Companies could recruit a new graduate and "grow their own". Some of my friends who went into industry gained their PhDs whilst working for the company. (One is now chairman and chief executive of a bio-technology company who have sold and developed ideas for major companies. He is worth squillions.)
Before anyone asks "what is a graduate training scheme"? why don't you get a copy of the BNF and/or Chemist and Druggist price list where all pharmaceutical companies are listed. Look at their websites and make contact with them. So much in life is about being in the right place at the right time and recruitment into industry is no different. Most employers value a little initiative as opposed to people waiting to be asked. When I was a student we would have to post out hand written letters and put stamps on them. Now you can bombard them with e-mails.
However, don't e-mail the one query to every company you can find. Make sure each one looks like an individual query. |
Tony, I think unforutnately the only option available is to contact the manufacturers these days as the likes of GSK and AstraZeneca only give placements to 3rd year students by which time pre-reg applications have to be started.
May I ask of your opinion of on MBA Vs PHD?