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Diversity of job profiles in chemistry

As a chemist, do you only work in the lab? Far from it - the fields of application for chemists are as diverse as chemistry itself.

From analytics or application technology to marketing, production, product management, process engineering and sales, a degree in chemistry offers a wide variety of fields of activity. On these pages you will find information on various careers in chemistry.

The content is updated and supplemented at regular intervals. It's worth coming back!

Note also the information on the job profile of a:r food chemist:in.

"Diversity of chemical professions" - poster series & career interviews

Career interviews
In the interviews, chemists who are enthusiastic about chemistry and their profession talk about how they experienced starting their career, what activities make up their profession and what inspires them about it.

To the interviews

Poster series
The poster series is intended to draw the attention of students, doctoral candidates, graduates and school pupils to the diversity of chemical professions.
The posters can be ordered free of charge by schools and universities, employment agencies and career information centres or other institutions as well as the young chemists' forums.

To the poster series

Publications of the career service
The Careers Service regularly publishes new brochures on the subject of "Careers in Chemistry". Information on the brochures can be found here.
Would you like to present your job profile?

Write to us with pleasure! We look forward to new contributions that help to publicise the various professional fields in chemistry. If you are interested, please send an email with a few details about yourself and your field of work to karriere@gdch.de.

Further job profiles

Other job profiles:

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