So say leaders of prominent biotech companies, their personnel directors, head hunters, and industry analysts of an employment phenomenon that is the result of the companies' emphasis on bringing the products such Ph.D.'s once discovered to market.
"The largest growth area for biotechnology companies in 1991 and in the next few years will be manufacturing and commercialization," says David Jensen, of Search Masters International, an executive and scientific search firm in Sedona, Ariz. The bulk of these positions will be filled with non-Ph.D. technicians and engineers who have a few years' industry experience, he says.
Other human resources specialists agree, adding that there is always a demand at biotech firms for highly skilled doctorate-level specialists, such as microbial physiologists.
"Good people are still hard to find. Often the areas we're looking into are cutting-edge, and not too many people are out there," says Chris Giffin, senior recruiter at the Thousand ...
