What Can I Do with a Science Degree?

Your science degree opens up many career options. To choose a career, you need to consider the extent to which you would like to use your scientific knowledge in your future career. You may choose to work in pure science, applied science, an alternative career requiring an understanding of science or use the general skills you have acquired while studying.

Also, you have gained a high level of technical ability alongside general skills which will make you more employable.

Careers for science graduates fall into three main categories:

· Careers using your specialist science knowledge

· Careers where an understanding of science is an advantage

· Careers using your other skills

Those of you who have thoroughly enjoyed studying your major* at the university may like to continue to work in science. Science is a diversifying industry with new doors opening all the time. If you want to find work in a specialized area related to your major, you may find that you need more than a pass degree*. Professional scientists usually have at least an honours degree but more likely a PhD, particularly if working in research areas.

Occupations which would allow you to work with your expertise include:

Research -university academic, environmental researcher, agricultural researcher, marine scientist, biotechnologist, physicist, research scientist, laboratory research technician, etc.

Analysis and investigation - forensic investigator, IT systems analyst, statistician, clinical research associate in pharmaceutical industry, nutritionist and/or dietitian, analytical chemist, geophysical technician, etc.

Consultancy - environmental information consultant, agricultural consultant, IT consultant, IT systems developer, information services officer, geoscientist, etc.

Quality control - clinical research associate, environmental health officer, resource manager, toxicology consultant, water treatment consultant, quality assurance officer, quality control area of manufacturing company, etc.

Product and process development - pharmacologist, industrial chemist, product designer, process mapping assistant, etc.

Scientists are found in such industries as biotechnology, telecommunications, IT, electronic-design-automation as well as in academic institutions, hospitals, pharmaceutical and utility companies and research organizations.

The industry you choose will have an effect on the type of work you do. Many industries require the application of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems such as utilising resources, developing new products or ensuring safe use for humans.

(Abridged from:http://www.careers.usyd.edu.au/students/careeropt/degree_science.shtml)

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major – здесь специализация

pass degree – здесь степень, присуждаемая после сдачи выпускных экзаменов в университете по облегчённой программе

Discuss

Ø When choosing a career what does a graduate with a science degree should take into account?

Ø What are the career opportunities for science students in your country?

Ø Which field/area of science should you choose as your major in order to get the job you like?

Ø Which jobs mentioned in the text would you like to do most? Give reasons for your choice.

Ø What kind of skills do you think are necessary for the job you would like to do most?

Listening

1. Listen to the interview with two young scientists describing their attitude to the jobs they are doing. Complete the chart below:

	Hours	Job satisfaction	Teamwork and competition
Speaker 1
Speaker 2

Discuss

Agree or disagree with the following:

Ø Being a scientist means to be ‘slaving’ in the lab 24 hours a day as it is the only way to be a success.

Ø Mega things happen once in a lifetime, so a really ambitious researcher won’t get any job satisfaction discovering new things in a small way.

Ø To make an outstanding discovery or invention you should have the intellectual freedom.

Ø It’s not a good idea to co-operate and share the results of your research with other scientists if you want to be the first person to make that all-important discovery.

Get Real

Study help A Curriculum Vitae, commonly referred to as CV (AmE resume) is a written record of your education and the jobs you have done, that you send when you are applying for a job. It is a detailed summary not only of your academic backgrounds but also teaching and research experience, publications, presentations, awards, honors and other details.

Search the Internet to find some tips and/or rules on writing a CV. Discuss them as a class and create a Class File on CV writing rules.

Writing

1. Write your CV for a job of your choice (say what it is). Use your own details and qualifications and work experience which you hope to get in the future.

2. With the partner exchange your CVs and check out if your CVs follow the rules on CV writing.

Roleplay

In the Realm of Jobs

We all have certain skills which will be useful to employers. Some of the words listed below are ideal "active words" for you to use when describing yourself in your resume and in the job application process. For each skill on these lists, state whether you:

· have that skill already (put a V)

· don't have it yet but have the potential to develop it (put a?)

· will never have that skill (put a X)

People Skills   guiding listening to negotiating with instructing supervising understanding persuading speaking to serving helping encouraging leading motivating disciplining organizing directing evaluating coaching/teaching

Word Skills   coordinating processing organising classifying copying typing proof reading editing composing communicating writing reading imagining researching compiling comparing

Figure Skills   counting calculating timing recording compiling comparing correcting analysing graphing problem solving planning

Skills with things driving operating installing making repairing adjusting producing changing adapting creating classifying using improving collecting selling growing

Unit 2. Progress Monitoring In this Unit you have worked on the vocabulary related to the topic “Job and career Options”

to choose a science career		to use specialist science knowledge
a research vacancy		to work in research areas
lab or research culture/experience		to gain high-level technical ability or general skills
to try out an alternative career		to apply scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
to achieve a dream job		to have a passion for research
the cutting-edge research		to work in pure/applied science
to hire someone as a full/part-time employee		to share one’s research results with colleagues
to make valuable contacts		to get job satisfaction
to acquire skills/knowledge		team work and competition

Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise.

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