Career transition employee

Some students take advanced degrees in business or law, which prepare them to make careers outside science. Others find work that uses all their qualifications. Both kinds of career transition can occur within one company if it is large or growing. But student-employees must be alert to the possibility that to work immediately in their new fields they may have to find employment in a different corporation or location. No company that initially hires a chemist thereby guarantees later employment to the same person as a lawyer. A new attorney wishing to continue his employment in law but not in science must hunt work like any other job applicant. 

All professionals should understand that they have to take responsibility for their own employment security, and that it would be folly to program their careers within an organization that may exist only temporarily. Also, they must realize that their continued employment potential is being determined by whether their skills and capabilities are viewed by their employers as supportive in achieving entity goals. Transitions in recent years in the technical requirements for the practice of safety require that safety professionals expand their skills, and doing so results in their having additional opportunities to be perceived as more valued employees. 

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