Career Resources

  • At GWU, Career Services can assist you with your resume, cover letters, interviews, and networking.
     
  • GWU Blackboard has a resume, cover letter, personal statement, social media presence, job search, and other resources and self-help tools. To ask and discuss specific topic-related questions, use the handshake and other resource chat boards.
     
  • Explore the various biotech job types, the locations of various biotech companies, the qualifications and requirements, and the job opportunities.
     
  • Keep up with current career trends. Study career articles, resources, and employer profiles.
     
  • Learn about the Pathways to Federal Careers and Programs for Students and Recent Graduates. Examine the link for FAQs and information on how to write a resume for federal jobs.

 

More information on job postings, networking, and professional sites can be found below.

Job Posting Sites
  1. USAJobs - Search for federal government jobs, upload your resume, and learn about different hiring options.
     
  2. Indeed - Job postings, company reviews, and salary comparisons are all available.
     
  3. Glassdoor - There are jobs, company reviews, salary comparisons, interview tips, and questions, blogs, and employee perspectives on company culture available.
     
  4. Buzzfile - This is an advanced company information database where you can conduct job searches and view a tailored list of employers, companies, and industries based on your major.
     

It is critical to develop your personal and professional social media presence. Keep up to date on current events, research news, and job market trends. Make yourself visible on social media and create content for Twitter and Linkedin. 

Professional Sites

 

ASBMB

American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology

 The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology assists you in excelling at all stages of your scientific career through networking, professional development, meetings, journals, and leadership opportunities. 
ISB

International Society for Biocuration

 The International Society of Biocuration (ISB) is a non-profit organization for bio-curators, developers, and researchers with an interest in biocuration. 
NIH

Informatics Technology for Cancer Research

 ITCR is a multi-NCI program that promotes investigator-initiated, research-driven informatics technology development in all areas of cancer research.
AACR

American Association for Cancer Research

 The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the AACR. The Foundation supports the AACR and its more than 54,000 members on the front lines of the global cancer-eradication effort.
Janelia

Janelia

 HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, breaks down technical and intellectual barriers to open up scientific fields. Janelia Research Campus is an active member of the community of Loudoun County.
ISCB

International Society for Computational Biology

 The International Society for Computational Biology aims to advance scientific understanding of living systems through computations. 
Networking Opportunities
  1. All BMM students are strongly advised to join the following LinkedIn group.  
     
  2. Professional Skills Development: Please enter your information in this table so that we can find more ways to assist with skill development.
Bioinformatics tools & databases
  1. National Center for Biotechnology Information -   The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by making biomedical and genomic data available.
     
  2. National Center for Genome Resources - The National Center for Genome Resources has information on bioinformatics solutions such as software development.
     
  3. Genbank - Genbank has stored information on DNA sequences from large-scale genome projects and individual laboratories. 
     
  4. European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI is an international, innovative, and interdisciplinary research institute that advocates for open data in the life sciences.
     
  5. Ensembl - Ensembl's goal was to automatically annotate the genome, integrate it with other available biological data, and make it all publicly available via the web. 
     
  6. SWISS-PROT - Swiss-Prot is a significant protein database that contains sequence data from all organisms, has a high level of annotation (including function, structure, and variations), and is minimally redundant.

 

Potential Careers

Academics, research laboratories, healthcare organizations, biotechnology, and industry are all possible career paths in bioinformatics.

  • bioinformatics scientist
  • bioinformatics technician
  • bioinformatics statistician or biostatistician
  • field bioinformatics scientist
  • next generation sequencing analyst
  • scientific programmer
  • bioinformatics programmer
  • clinical pipeline developer
  • genome curator
  • bioanalyst
  • bioinformatics software developer