Effects of Outsourcing on Employment Opportunities

To maximize the chance of finding employment, a determined job seeker learns the kinds of institutions that employ organic chemists within the medical industry. Such organizations, if they are not fipcos, can be hard to identify partly because of outsourcing. 

Other employers are not as obvious. Today, large fipcos contract some drug discovery and development research to start-up and other service firms. These companies therefore employ a certain number of chemists who in years past would have worked for easily identifiable, large fipcos. Now, however, vacancies arise in small, lesser known start-up and service firms. Newcomers to the industry, the former have no products to advertise. The 

Difficulties aside, recent business changes make outsourcing fi equent and start-up firms widespread, especially in California and Massachusetts. Outsourcers and start-ups are here to stay and deserve consideration as potential employers because they bring opportunities for permanent positions. 

---