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Best Places To Work In Industry, 2005

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Finding the Right FitIndustry jobs: The good, the bad, and the ugly(Theresa Tamkins)

TOP LEFT: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston, Iowa.

TOP RIGHT: Novo Nordisk, Maaloev, Denmark.

BOTTOM: Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois

For the third year in a row, The Scientist has asked industry scientists to tell us what makes their company a great – or not so great – place to work. We took the factors scientists rated as the most important in terms of job satisfaction, and combined them with the scientists' ratings of their own workplaces. The result? The Best Places to Work in Industry, 2005.

Our survey found that scientists working in industry are much like their colleagues in academia: They need to be personally satisfied with the work they do every day, be it at the bench or behind a desk. "You feel that the work you do is important to the world's food supply," ...

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