Timeline: Looking to hire by Dec. 26 and complete the report by Jan. 16.
Goal: To write a business report on the top freelancing marketplaces, other consulting, and more formalized full time hiring platforms that could provide meaningful opportunities to complete work at the intersection of quantum technology and/or QIS/algorithmic work and biopharmaceutical/biotechnology development.
Why is this important:
- Improvements in computational modeling techniques for biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, and medical infrastructure companies has been regularly described as a key area of impact for quantum computing and potentially quantum networking, as well as quantum sensing for biomedical applications; at the same time, contracting on freelancing websites has greatly increased over the past many years, as has the outreach of quantum companies into untapped region as well as academic STEM curricula for QIS, quantum physics, and quantum chemistry.
- Making strategic decisions between contracting from temp agencies versus contracting from freelancing markets versus direct hiring or internships directly from colleges and universities could be usefully informed by workforce marketplace business reports. Wage, salary, and other pricing negotiation between hiring/contracting sources may be usefully plausible with increased market information to achieve fair market pricing for this company.
- We want to be able to provide companies in the same industrial niche as Iff (bio x quantum) to mildly shop their market competition by observing any obvious, prominent, or salient in-class competitors supporting R&D pipelining of in silico drug design, biomedical devices, healthcare infrastructure, and cybersecurity of biosecurity for both quantum technology and biotechnology; freelancing market business reports could inform our business need for this competitor awareness and competitive pricing ranges, but also this could improve labor relationships with local colleges as well as outreach to collaborators, suppliers, or purchasers.
- Evaluation of freelance markets in business reports could allow us to evaluate the hiring patterns, capacities, and behaviors of competitors. We need greater awareness of competitors and how they hire from a similar labor source to predict their advancements, as well as have useful information for informing local workforce development agencies of leading industrial demands.
- This will also aid in understanding if any future QIS-focused quantum group at local San Diego area colleges and even potentially help the Quantum Computing club at UCSD to be able to tap into freelancer markets in order to work to facilitate potential projects and in being hired for future projects.
- The Greater San Diego Area and its institutions are regularly in front of various biotechnology and exa-scale compute intercollegiate initiatives, but have no identifiable impact in quantum sciences as well as no indication of if or how quantum technology companies or academic R&D can or are servicing the needs of the local biotechnology sector; Imperials is alternatively left behind entirely in prior considerations like these but is being aligned with San Diego by the state to pursue workforce development and economic development activities in tandem. We want to be able to determine if they are providing such talent opportunities on existing freelancing platforms, through local collegiate interactions, and if further, localized R&D talent can be gained from such platforms.
Type of Position
Your Role:
- Analyze posted tasks, work, or hiring on Kolabtree, Freelancer, Upwork, Catalent, LinkedIn, and most other job websites available online with accessibility and range for the Greater San Diego Area and also remotely on an international scale
- Identify other freelancer platforms that might be needed
- Identify if claims being made by freelancer platforms of big ticket clients, especially in biopharma, biotech, sensing, and computation, hiring people from said freelancer and other hiring platforms can be backed up
- This can be completed by looking at the different tasks, jobs, and work that are being asked for on each of the platforms
- Highlight discrepancies between jobs being posted on the freelancer and jobs platforms and same jobs being completed at companies, especially big ticket clients, to determine labor cost differences, especially when taking into account other employee benefits (healthcare, etc.)
- Collaborate with researchers looking into freelancer labor markets most recently to review some of the labor market highlights
- Prepare to show all of the work completed; automation without corroboration will not be supported
Base Qualifications
- Completed collegiate-level English writing course(s) or equivalent
- Is able to provide high-quality writing samples
- Has general interest in either a career in biotechnology or quantum technology, and a willingness to proactively learn more about such sectors
Ideal Candidate
- Has an interest or inclination in working in biopharma, biotech, and quantum algorithmic/processing/QIS work, quantum sensing/physics, and/or quantum chemistry
- Completed collegiate-level Technical Writing and/or Business Writing course(s)
- It doesn’t have to be a patent diagram breakdown but it has to be significantly better than social media punditry
- Has completed freelancing-oriented tasks or has studied making freelancing-oriented tasks
- Is located in the Pacific Time zone and, more importantly, is located in the greater San Diego region
- Is studying at a college within the greater San Diego area
- May be pursuing or already enrolled within a graduate-level program
- Has interests in follow-on writing projects or career goals that indicate such directed interests
- Likely is attending a business school or is in a business development educational program
- Alternatively, interested or already pursuing a post-baccalaureate degree
- Has experience in writing strong bibliographies and being able to speak to all sources used in any piece of writing, including which search engines were used, to allow for replication of work
- Especially would like to have someone who has experience with writing bibliographies with DOIs and links to web archive links in the case of webpage obsolescence/takedown.
