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Find your career path

From your first semester to the start of your career - we support you in discovering your career opportunities, making informed decisions and successfully shaping your professional future in the life sciences.

Career orientation in the life sciences

Start your professional future with btS now!

The transition from studying to working life can be overwhelming - too many options, too many questions. This is exactly where btS comes in:

  • We are students and doctoral candidates ourselves - we know your situation.
  • For over 25 years, we have been helping to create clarity, discover perspectives and shape your own career path in a focused way.
  • Whether it's a doctorate, a suitable industry or employer - we are here to help you make the right decision.
  • At 21 locations throughout Germany, we support you with a wide range of projects.
  • Our network of universities, industry, research and committed alumni brings you together with people who can help you.
  • With our experience since 1996, we support you personally - so that your entry into the life sciences is a success.

You don't have to go your own way - we are here for you.

Career orientation on site

Discover what exciting face-to-face events await you with us!

btS weekend

Take the opportunity to exchange ideas with btS students, alumni and company representatives and make valuable contacts.

  • Exchange of experience and knowledge
  • Strengthen your network

Secure your place now

Career fair ScieCon

Get a compact overview of your career start, company and job opportunities in one day.

  • Overview within one day
  • Personal contact with employers
  • Strengthen your network

Find out more about ScieCon

Local events

Take the opportunity to take part in regional events and gain valuable experience for your career path.

  • A wide range of offers such as excursions, workshops and lectures
  • Direct contact with companies

Take a look at the calendar of events

Digital offers for career orientation

Discover our wide range of online offers to help you plan your career!

Career matching ScieMatch

Find not only the right career field for you, but also the right potential employers.

  • Online self-test
  • Can be used anytime & anywhere
  • Direct contact with employers

Take the self-test now

Career blog

Get first-hand tips for your career planning from our network - from students, alumni and partners.

  • Career prospects & career tips
  • Readable at any time & from anywhere
  • First-hand experience

Browse the career blog now

Research group database ScieGuide

Search specifically for research groups in different scientific fields and find the lab that piques your curiosity.

  • Find Bachelor's/Master's/PhD positions
  • Overview of research groups
  • For your university location

Discover research groups now

Browse through our career blog

with current articles on job prospects and career tips

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Voices on the btS

Anna Jungblut

PhD student at EMBL Heidelberg

"ScieCon Frankfurt was an excellent opportunity to get to know leading pharmaceutical companies and their representatives at company presentations and in individual discussions. This gave me a better idea of possible career options as a biochemist with a PhD. The btS designed a perfect program: From application photos and CV checks to a live job interview and a LinkedIn workshop, everything was on offer."

Andrea Bayer

Veeva Systems GmbH

“We were excited to be one of the first employers to use the ScieMatch tool – It surpassed our expectations! With its efficient Matching Algorithm, ScieMatch delivered giving both Veeva and students a match that aligns with our criteria. Thanks to ScieMatch we were able to successfully hire two new Associate Consultants. Looking forward to continuing our partnership with btS.”

Matthias Otto

btS member from Bielefeld

"What I like about the btS is that it is so diverse and offers suitable projects and working groups for everyone in the life sciences. The btS makes the field of career prospects in the life sciences more visible and offers orientation. Thanks to btS, I now know much more about what I want to do later and what I might not want to do."

FAQ

At any time! Whether at the beginning of your studies, in the middle, shortly before the end or directly after graduation - we have the right offer for you! You can start with us to find out about your career entry options. And it's never too early to start thinking about your career! Or do you already know more specifically where you want to go? Then you will find many options for contacting employers and looking for a job directly - from final theses to internships and entry-level positions.

Are you completely stressed out by the search for an internship? Have you often put off planning your career and don't really know where to start thinking about starting your career? You have no idea which professions are available with your degree? Are you overwhelmed by the career opportunities and all the scattered information about them? Are you afraid of making the wrong decision?

Have you found yourself answering at least one question? Then you've come to the right place, because our various projects can help you with exactly that. Just take a look at our overview to see what best suits your question.

Our aim is to make life sciences students aware of the diversity of their career options. We solve the various problems and issues associated with this through various projects and events - either locally at 21 locations throughout Germany or in our nationwide teams.

To do this, we draw on our large network of supporters from universities, industry, research institutes, associations and societies as well as our dedicated alumni. We want to share this valuable wealth of experience with you.

With a few exceptions, our offers are free of charge for you. If this is not the case, we will explicitly state this in our event advertising.

The following offers, which you can find on this homepage, are free of charge:

More than 1,100 btS members volunteer their time to organize projects and events for their fellow students, helping them with their professional orientation and making it easier for them to start their careers.

As a student or doctoral candidate (in the field of life sciences), you can easily become a member of btS and get involved in our projects.

We offer you many opportunities: From small tasks such as buying snacks for a lecture, organizing an event, contributing ideas, approaching potential cooperation partners, designing posters to board positions or membership in nationwide working groups and project teams (e.g. career fair organization), you can try out everything. Depending on your personal preferences and strengths.

You can find more information here.