Finding a Medical laboratory Assistant job after birth.

[SoniaTicha]

A graduate from Biomedical Science, presently looking for job opportunities as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in London to get first hand experience in a laboratory setting within the NHS preferably or privately. I worry because I have a 2 year gap in my job history since I graduated. I took a break to get married and gave birth before resuming to job search. It seems impossible to find a job and I really hope and wish I get help to find one. I really wish to get recommendations from other users who work in a similar field of interest. The number of job rejections is ridiculous, I am open to volunteer Medical Laboratory Assistant roles as well. Thank you for reading.

Are you getting interviews or just rejected at CV stage? Perhaps your cv needs a review?

I'm no help, but if you don't get many replies you miight want to ask MNHQ to move this to ths work section of the forum.

Are any of these part years? As in did you not work from August 22 -August 24. If so I would make put all dates down as the year and not the month. So university from 2018-2021 and not Sept 2018 -July 2021 just so it is slightly blurred about what time you have out from employment. I took a year out between my degrees with short term employments of 3m. This allowed me to only keep the relevant jobs without filling my CV with hospitality when I was looking for lab based work

If there is one time in your life that it is more acceptable to have a gap it is after your degree. A lot of people will have a short period out of their preferred employment whilst they figure out what to do.

Get a list of labs nearby by - go through science parks - there are lots of CROs hidden.on science parks and universities and find out if any have jobs coming up and also if you could do a work experience for a few weeks. It does help! My partner and I both work in science and it shows a willingness to get back up to speed and it gives you a relevant reference for when applying for other jobs. Experience really is key to get back in to science but 2 years isn't a long time so you should be ok it just takes time especially in a niche area. When I was applying for jobs there were just 2 jobs in whole of the UK over 8months that matched my skills. Thankfully I was offered one of them!

Oh another thing to consider is doing a masters. It is getting harder and harder to distinguish UG candidates so MSc are often required even if it's not stated. It also gives you that very valuable lab experience and personal responsibility for managing lab time that is some times missing from an UG