vicshownero:

Fellow graduates of chemistry,pls i like to be informed on professional certifications Wc one can apply for and will thereafter boost the chamber of securing a job.Then as a fresh graduate of chemistry,pls wat do u think should be the next line of action?

vicshownero:

Fellow graduates of chemistry,pls i like to be informed on professional certifications Wc one can apply for and will thereafter boost the chamber of securing a job.Then as a fresh graduate of chemistry,pls wat do u think should be the next line of action?

yamakuza:

^ so, no hope for pure chemists unless they delve into the health industry?
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Any additional professional bodies/certifications?
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Thanks, and welcome!

moshoodn:

Well there is plenty hope. .  .just that the scope is limited. . .
And most of the professional bodies are either redundant or not really recognized.
I'm a biochemist who roll with chemists and i get this facts from them.

Jaga Jaga:

@Nosyke I also studied biochemistry. I did my NYSC with NACA - a public health agency - because I wanted to have a career in the public health sector but I felt my industrial training with a research institute was more challenging than what was obtainable at NACA where staff were only busy when we had an upcoming program [which were short and happens about 4 times in a year]. I want to be a lecturer/researcher so I have decided to try for a masters enroute to a PhD in a foreign university so that I may be able to get a research position with them on completion of studies. Right now I'm kinda idle and will welcome any job openings you have to keep me busy till I leave for my dream this year.

~the only degree I know of that will catapult you to the top in the public health sector is a MSc degree in public health. Albeit, I know a guy that works with IHVN with just a 2.2 degree in microbiology but, he was sent on M&E training in South Africa. The dude is doing very fine.

Nosyke:

Well, Me I also did Biochemistry,apparently there are limited opportunities for Biochemists, I am actually into Public Health at the moment and want to grow in it(especially M & E).
Any advise on how to grow in the publlic Health sector?, (growth routes, necessary certifications/skills in order to grow)]

moshoodn:

True talks. . . In Nigeria here, public health rocks.
But if you intend to travel out for your MSc. and Phd, i'll advise you go into genetics.
Thats what i intend doing too soonest, even though i'm in IT now to make ends meet.

moshoodn:

I advised genetics due to the fact that its more appreciated abroad trust me.
Besides, diversion into public health in Nigeria is downstream for Biochemists, and Chemists especially. . . But genetics is mainstream cos its an extension of us as Biochemists and it flows easily. . .we become the best faster.

Nosyke:

What do mean by the bolded?
Yeah, I know it flows naturally, here in Nigeria, Research based work isnt really lucrative

moshoodn:

I advised genetics due to the fact that its more appreciated abroad trust me.
Besides, diversion into public health in Nigeria is downstream for Biochemists, and Chemists especially. . . But genetics is mainstream cos its an extension of us as Biochemists and it flows easily. . .we become the best faster.

yamakuza:
^ how is public health downstream?

What is downstream?

FEDGO boy, did you also study Biochemistry?

yamakuza:

What brings u hia?

Career section na for efrybodi nah. . .abi you dey pursue me ni?

Anyway, to answer your question, I dey come hia wella. . .only thing be sey I no dey post

yamakuza:

Lolz. 4 wia? I no fit o!

Too many complex structures with funny sounding names all waiting to react?

Bros, u nor lie. Femi Kuti talk sey 1+1 is 2, 2+2 is 4 but when you start to divide XYZ all over 159, you want to scatter your head

yamakuza:

U nko? Are you a chemist?

yamakuza:

what can we do to change that?

Too many stalkers in stealth mode in this section.

Begin dey pay people to post. . .SIMPLES!

semid4lyfe:

Begin dey pay people to post. . .SIMPLES!

moshoodn:

Boy! That had be great. . . So we can now talk bout serotonin, adrenaline, and others.

and alpha helix structure, TCA Cycle,glycolytic cycle

Nosyke:


and alpha helix structure, TCA Cycle,glycolytic cycle

moshoodn:

Thats a mark of a true biochemist!

bhusayor:

I'm a biochemist too , I graduated last year, yet to go for NYSC, the few responses here have been insightful

rx steve:

Do agree with the position of element Hydrogen on the periodic table. Comment.

rx steve:

No jokes pls