Amgen’s Rachael Harte and Barakat Raji explore the routes towards a career in bioprocessing and how they found themselves in their current roles.
There is no one way to find yourself on the route towards a meaningful career that gives you personal and professional joy, and it is rarely a linear path. For many, it takes time and persistence to uncover the aspects of a role that are most appealing, but also to investigate avenues that perhaps you had been aware of, but had not fully considered.
This is certainly true for Barakat Raji, a bioprocess technician at Amgen, who explained that initially, as part of her undergraduate degree, she studied subjects outside of where she would eventually end up, as a means of pushing herself and exploring what else was possible.
She told SiliconRepublic.com, “In college, I did an undergrad in biomedical science and then I did a masters in microbiology, which has nothing to do with production at all, but I wanted to kind of go out of my comfort zone and it worked out well.”
Upon completing her master’s in microbiology, Raji was intrigued about the potential for a career in the manufacturing space; however, it was not an area that she had extensive knowledge of, so she took the initiative to carry out her own research.
