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Skills that get you hired
Molecular techniques
Gene sequencing and PCR (polymerase chain reaction, the method for copying DNA) are the bread and butter of biotech hiring.
Cell culture
Keeping living cells alive and uncontaminated is a real skill and labs value people who are reliably good at it.
Instrument ownership
Become the person who runs and fixes the mass spectrometer or the flow cytometer. Those people are hard to replace.
Quality systems
Regulated labs need people who understand documentation and audits. It is careful, detailed work.
Coding for data
Basic Python or R turns a technician into someone who can also analyze the results.