{"id":7304,"date":"2012-06-12T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2012-06-13T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:54:10","slug":"why-oklahoma-biotech-firms-are-hiring-in-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/12\/why-oklahoma-biotech-firms-are-hiring-in-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma Biotech Firms Are Hiring in New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7305\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaibara\/3644661574\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7305\" title=\"Biotech\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/biotech-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/biotech-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/biotech-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/biotech.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">kaibara \/ flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>The growth of Oklahoma&#8217;s biotechnology sector might be outpacing the pool of potential employees.<\/p><p>Thomas Kupiec is the CEO of three biotech companies headquartered in the Oklahoma City metro area, which <em>The<\/em> <em>Journal Record<\/em>&#8216;s Sarah Terry-Cobo <a href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2012\/06\/11\/ok-biotech-companies-attend-boston-conference-to-recruit-employees-health-care\/\">reports<\/a> have been in a &#8220;perpetual hiring phase.&#8221;<\/p><p>But when Kupiec travels to Boston next week to attend the big annual biotech conference, he won&#8217;t just be seeking out new clients \u2014 he&#8217;ll be looking for new employees to hire.<\/p><p>Why is that? (Hint: It&#8217;s not about education.)<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Terry-Cobo reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey have the training; our (state) schools do a great job at educating,\u201d Kupiec said in a telephone interview. \u201cBut (a college education) doesn\u2019t give the industrial experience. \u2026 They need the true, real-world experience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Kupiec often needs employees who have experience using specialized equipment \u2014 know how to work a\u00a0liquid chromatography mass spectrometer? \u2014\u00a0and those workers tend to cluster around pharmaceutical companies headquartered on the coasts, he tells <em>The Journal Record<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years, Kupiec hired an employee from Connecticut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of Oklahoma&#8217;s biotechnology sector might be outpacing the pool of potential employees.Thomas Kupiec is the CEO of three biotech companies headquartered in the Oklahoma City metro area, which The Journal Record&#8216;s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports have been in a &#8220;perpetual hiring phase.&#8221;But when Kupiec travels to Boston next week to attend the big annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[385,386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}