Any experience conducting research—especially for a biotechnology company—will be useful.
In order to succeed as a biotechnology research assistant, you must have scientific aptitude, be curious, and enjoy doing research, finding and organizing facts, working with other people, and handling a variety of tasks. You should also be self-motivated, take instruction well, and be resourceful. A good biotechnology research assistant must be able to take an assignment, immediately ask any questions necessary to clarify the task, and then begin retrieving the requested information.
Most assignments require that biotechnology research assistants do their work on their own, with little direct supervision. Biotechnology research assistants need to be very self-motivated in order to get the work done since they often do not have someone readily available to support them. It is important for research assistants who leave their offices for work to remember that they are representatives of their company or employer and to act and dress according to the employer’s standards.
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