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Work Environment:

Chemists study composition of materials and chemicals, and how they act under various physical circumstances. As a chemist, you'd utilize this information and knowledge to create products and processes within different fields, e.g.:

  • academic research, teaching and lecturing
  • maintaining water-supply clean
  • scrutinizing forensic proof in criminal-investigations
  • controlling quality and making newer products within food industry
  • diagnosing and treating sickness and disease within health care area

  • finding out modes to discard industrial-waste securely
  • producing medicines within pharmaceutical-industry
  • producing artificial fibers and plastics within polymer-industry
  • researching weather change and analyzing oceans

Generally, you'd work as per complex processes and utilize hi-tech machinery. Your daily duties would comprise:

  • planning and carrying out lab experiments
  • observing and writing down results
  • representing your discoveries and writing up reports
You might execute administrative work, and oversee work of support-staff like lab technicians.

Also, check resume sample for chemist.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

To work as a chemist, you'd necessitate a degree into biochemistry, chemistry, analytical/applied chemistry, or associated science subject. Few companies would prefer you to hold a related qualification at postgraduate level, like PhD, MSc or MPhil.

You'd necessitate 5 GCSE grades (A to C) with Mathematics, Science and English, and 2 A-Levels with chemistry and biology, to get into science based degree. You can take 1 year bridging/foundation course, if you don't have backdrop into science. For correct information about admission requirements, contact providers of course, since other qualifications might be allowed.

You'd also necessitate work-experience before searching for work. You could obtain this by placement as component of degree-course or by work-experience with firms. For further information, check the website of RSC (Royal-Society Chemistry).

You can begin as a lab technician within this field. You'd necessitate 5 GCSE grades (A to C), though, several technicians hold high qualifications like BTEC: HND or HNC into scientific subject, or A Levels. Then, you can acquire a related part time degree course.

Training Details:

At the work, you'd get training into health and safety rules, laboratory techniques, and related software.

You company might support you to acquire postgraduate qualification, if you don't hold any postgraduate-qualification, or fellowship with professional organization.

Being a qualified and experienced chemist, you can acquire the status of CSci (Chartered-Scientist) or CChem (Chartered Chemist).

You can take Fifth Level NVQ into Analytical-Chemistry, which will assist you to acquire CChem. For information, visit the website of RSC.

Skills and knowledge:

  • IT abilities
  • an analytical manner to resolve problems
  • excellent written and oral communication abilities
  • an analytical and enquiring mindset
  • managerial skills
  • capability to scrutinize information
  • technical, scientific and numerical abilities
  • team working and leadership abilities
  • persistence and patience

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • Trainees can get about $17,000 to $23,000 annually.
  • Experienced chemists can receive around $26,000 to $36,000.
  • By extra responsibilities and postgraduate qualification, income can get to around $62,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd work within sterile lab circumstances. You'd put on protective outfits, for laboratory work.

You'd need to travel to attend conferences and meetings, and execute fieldwork.

You'd work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on weekdays, although sometimes you may need to work on weekends and evenings. If you're working within the NHS and giving a 24 hour service to people, you might have to work in shifts or on call Rota.

Different Opportunities:

You could discover work chances within government agencies, research institutions, the NHS, and public-health labs. You can be included within forensic science, health and safety, research and development, and patent work.

You can get into other fields, like the media and teaching.

Openings are publicized by national and local press, scientific magazines, and recruitment organizations.

Along with this career guidance, refer these resume for chemist analytical, Resume for chemist instrumentation and computer science and sample of forensic science technician.

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