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Certificate program boosts career credentials

Are you a dislocated worker seeking better career options? Are you a working technician seeking to broaden your skills? CBET offers certificate programs that provide the hands-on training you need for a solid future in the bioscience-related fields:

Bioprocessing Operations:

This 10-week comprehensive program prepares workers for entry-level laboratory technician positions with biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic laboratories in medical research centers.

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Dawn Mugrage

Dawn Mugrage had been looking for a lab-technician job for close to six months when she came across a newspaper ad for CBET’s bioprocessing certificate program.

Mugrage was new to the Rochester job scene, having recently moved from Cincinnati with her husband and two children. The couple bought a house and Mugrage started looking for work.

That’s when she realized her skills were out of date. Mugrage had completed three years of a Ph.D. program in genetics, but that was 13 years earlier. Since then, she had taught high school biology and raised children—neither of which gave her the edge she needed to land a job.

CBET changed all that.

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