Quincy College
The name of the building where you will take classes
What is ArLab?
Maximum length your resume should be
What is 2 pages?
Connected, as if by metal loops
What is LinkedIn? (This is the most common social media site where you can create a profile for your professional history and connect with people in your network)
Many job openings are for different Assistant, Technician, Associate, and Specialist positions - such as Research Assistant, Lab Technician, Manufacturing Associate, and QC Specialist, where QC stands for these two words
What is "quality control"?
What is "Free Application for Federal Student Aid"?
This is the MBTA subway line (color) that stops near Quincy College
What is the Red Line?
This should be at the very very top of the resume
What is your name / contact info?
Certainly
Vericel is a fast-growing biotech company focused on cell therapy and sports medicine with a lab in Burlington, MA; this Boston-based pharmaceutical giant focused on genetics starts with the same 3 letters
What is Vertex?
What is 24 hours / 1 day (but earlier is better)?
The street address of Quincy College
What is 1250 Hancock St?
The order in which you should list your professional / work experience
What is reverse chronologically / most recent job at the top?
Scary creature
What is Monster? (One of the older job searching sites)
Modern is a Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company that made headlines in 2020 with its breakthrough mRNA vaccine technology; this company, also with a significant Cambridge presence (and spelled with a silent P), released its own vaccine around the same time
What is Pfizer?
The name of the online platform where most Quincy College courses host their class material - named for something painters paint on
What is Canvas?
Name the two classes you will take this summer
What are Intro to Biotechnology and Buffer & Media Prep?
This is the name (or acronym) of the automatic program companies use to search your resume for key words and phrases
What is Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
Transparent entryway
What is Glassdoor? (This is the name of the job searching site that is unique because you can leave reviews and comments about different companies)
Quincy College has several close employer partners in the Biotech space, including Massachusetts Life Science Center, MassBiologics, and this company, whose name is either derived from the phrase "genesis of biology" or maybe refers to Geneva, where the company was founded
What is Biogen?
If you want to pursue a Bachelor's Degree at another college, you can transfer your Quincy College credits to schools with whom QC has an "articulation agreement"; two Boston schools with a Biotech-specific articulation agreement are Fisher College, and this "directional" university (which doesn't contain the word "Boston")
What is Northeastern?
The name of the head of the Biotechnology program at QC
Who is Professor Isso Bayala?
The language of origin / etymology for the word resume
What is French? (Or Latin)
1 followed by 100 zeros (10^100)
What is Google? (A good place to start for any job search)
This is the largest life sciences employer in Massachusetts
What is Takeda?
Direct Unsubsidized Federal Loans (and most private loans) begin accruing interest as soon as they are disbursed; Direct Subsidized Federal Loans do not accrue interest until this amount of time after you graduate
What is 180 days / 6 months? (Subsidized is better than Unsubsidized!)