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Biotech Talent: A Geo-Workforce Analysis

As local industry specific economies increasingly take hold and grow across the U.S., we will continue to see different kinds of skill needs and pockets of talent emerge depending on the location. A geographical workforce analysis helps understand local employment dynamics within labor markets. The analysis drills down to learn more about industries and local workforces and reveals pertinent and applicable information.

Its resulting demographics are intended to supplement all other training and employment content. They are used for making more informed business decisions and are applicable when building employment, recruitment, training, and human resource management strategies.

For targeting and recruiting biotech talent, below are the results of an analysis of the pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industry and two geographical workforces. (Order this GIS data set which breakdowns down engineers in biotech manufacturing. It is available down to the block group level.)

About Industry and Occupational Talent

Engineers account for approximately 3 percent of all workers employed in this biotech industry. For life scientists, it is nearly 7 percent while workers in sales and related activities represent 3 percent. Management accounts for 9.3 percent of this workforce.

Fifteen and half percent of all biomedical engineers employed in the United States work in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing.

In addition, ten percent of all biological scientists employed in the U.S. work in the industry, as do 11% of the medical scientists. When combined, these scientists account for about 6.5 percent of this industry’s life science employees. (See the Workforce Occupation Profile. It rolls up local employment into 93 occupation classifications.)

Related Geo-Workforce Demographics

As part of locating this kind of talent, an analysis of the 2008 geographic workforce shows a high workforce count of biomedical engineers in both Middlesex (MA) and Los Angeles (CA) counties.

The geo-workforce indicator shows that both Middlesex and Los Angeles also have a high number of life scientists. However, further analysis reveals that Middlesex has a higher concentration of these scientists than does Los Angeles when compared to the national employment figures. Presented as an index, it shows that the life science workers in Los Angeles are actually 10 percent less concentrated than the national average.

In addition, the geo-workforce analysis shows that time management is a significant skill to pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industry. When compared to the national figures, this workforce skill is 5 percent more concentrated in Middlesex, while in Los Angeles it is much closer to the national average.

As part of the workforce discovery, the analysis looks at overall Workforce Preparation. This index rates Middlesex at 110 as compared to Los Angeles County’s 101. This means that Middlesex’s overall workforce preparation is 10 percent more concentrated when compared to the national figures. Los Angeles is 1 percent more concentrated. Workforce preparation is based on overall employee experience, education, and job training.

These more comprehensive demographics provide a better understanding of industry and geo-workforce matters. They are available for anyplace in the United States. For example, workforce patterns can be looked at in terms of drive minutes (commuting time) by simply entering an address.

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