Find Your Career in Canada's
Bio-economy
With rapid developments in technology, job seekers like yourself will need to develop and update your skills to meet the demands of employers.
You can promote and transfer your skills and experience to the Bio-Tech Industry with the BioSkills Recognition Program and obtain the BioReady stamp of approval.
The BioReady stamp of approval will get you noticed by over 500 of Canada’s top biotech employers. Register for the webinar to learn more.
About BioTalent: BioTalent Canada is the HR partner of Canada’s bio-economy. As an HR expert and national non-profit organization, BioTalent Canada focuses on building partnerships and skills for Canada’s bio-economy to ensure the industry has access to job-ready people. Through projects, research and product development BioTalent Canada connects employers with job seekers, delivers human resource information and skills development tools so the industry can focus on strengthening Canada’s biotech business.
Drawn to the field of life sciences both because of its medical and its social importance, he decided to seek out opportunities in the industry. That’s where BioTalent Canada’s Career Focus Wage Subsidy Program came in. With the financial support of Career Focus, Leibert was able to join the industry, first at Genesys Venture Inc, and ultimately at Kane Biotech in Winnipeg.
Building a career in life sciences is easier thanks to BioTalent Canada's range of tools. Nerissa Samad's career as a business development professional got a kick start when she joined the team at a leading pharmaceutical contracting company thanks to our Career Focus wage subsidy program.
Dalton Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical contracting company in Toronto, started unremarkably enough. “I couldn’t find a job, so I created one in 1986 based upon research I had conducted during my Master’s degree,” remembers Peter Pekos, the company founder. Mr. Pekos had been part of a business incubator at York University where he excelled at making compounds. He partnered with a professor and named his fledgling company after John Dalton, the renowned English chemist, meteorologist and physicist of the 18th century.
If you are a medical, health or science professional new to Canada and you have foreign credentials and experience, you may have the skills to work in Canada’s bio-economy.
Thanks to the BioSkills Recognition Program, you can showcase your abilities to employers in Canada’s growing biotech sector.