Santa Cruz, Calif.—Six prestigious members of the National Institutes of Health have joined Bio Career Center (www.BioCareerCenter.com), the nation’s leading online jobs board and careers site for life science professionals.

 
The NIH has the highest number of post-doctoral professionals at any scientific institute in the country. The six NIH organizations that have joined include the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Child Health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
 
“These institutes represent more than 40 percent of NIH’s post-graduate trainees and the majority of its trainees in the biomedical field,” said Bio Career Center founder Nick Folger. “This is a major addition to our consortium.”
 
The jobs board, www.BioCareerCenter.com, is only for post-graduates in the life sciences. While there are hundreds of life science career sites on the Internet, Bio Career Center is the only one that serves life science post-graduates exclusively.
 
Bio Career Center's institution consortium already consists of Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Emory, Georgetown, M.D. Anderson, Michigan State, New York University, Scripps Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California at San Francisco, University of Colorado Denver, University of Miami, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, Vanderbilt and Weill Cornell.
 
Developed with the Stanford Medical School director of career services, www.biocareercenter.com is constructed for Ph.D.s, M.D.s and other post-graduates who are looking for efficient ways to manage their careers. From industry articles and assessment tools to relevant job postings, Bio Career Center is a comprehensive and free career resource center. Job seekers have access to opportunities including academia, biopharmaceutical and government as well as vertical markets like consulting, public health and science policy.
 
Bio Career Center organizes qualified candidates to save recruiters time and shorten the hiring process. The site has become an industry leader because it offers employers high- quality candidates with strong life sciences educational backgrounds. In fact, nearly half of Bio Career Center’s candidates are alumni. Other job boards include applicants from a host of fields and education levels, requiring employers to sort through stacks of resumes that are not targeted to their needs.
  
About Bio Career Center
Bio Career Center features a jobs board that gathers the life sciences post-graduate and clinical communities of all member schools (including the alumni of the members, which account for more than 50 percent of the candidates) into one place, a staff that liaises with employers, and deep and rich content that focuses on the many career options for life sciences Ph.D.s and M.D.s.  Bio Career Center can be accessed via member (university) Web sites or at www.BioCareerCenter.com. The service is free to students and alumni of member institutions.

biocareercenter.com, a job portal and information website for post-graduates in the life sciences, has secured partnerships with Northwestern and Columbia Universities.

A statement on the website says these two universities will join 28 other life science training institutions affiliated with biocareercenter.com including Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.
The partnership will give Northwestern and Columbia University students and alumni free access to the portal’s content, including its job listings, which will be embedded on the universities’ websites.
“Our postdocs have been very excited about it,” said Kathryn Espiritu, Columbia University’s director of Post Doctoral Affairs. “We have a diverse group of postdocs and I think that biocareercenter.com will provide some great career advisement.”
biocareercenter.com offers a range of packages to employers ranging from single job postings to company profiles and featured options. The portal was introduced to the market in 2007, and states that companies should use it to find their employees because it “organises qualified candidates to save recruiters time and shorten the hiring process”.

 
 
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Ty Mays, Media Relations
877-862-4656  Ext. 112
ty@biocareers.com

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