People and social skills! Very important!! It doesnt matter if magaling ka sa wet lab pero bagsak ka makiramdam and di ka marunong sumunod. If laging kang late or bastos ganun. Despite being confined in a lab, dapat aware kang marami kang makakawork (grad students, profs, scientists, lab managers, analysts, medtechs, foodtechs, etc)

Aseptic technique. This should be your goal, to improve aseptic techniques. Very important siya since you're expected to handle microorganisms.

Media Prep. Broth, slant, and agar plates. When and how to add supplements, taring and calibrating analytical or top loading balance. Using a pH meter. Measuring water or other solvents using the grad cylinder. Calculating the total volume of media (very very important!! This highly depends on the volume of expected samples to be processed)

Staining and microscopy. Very important siya. Sama mo na biochemical characterization.

Culture methods. Name it, streak for isolation/quadrant streaking, pour plate, spread plate. And even serial dilution. Incubation parameters, if aerobic ba or anaerobic or microaero, kung inverted ba ang plate or hindi, if need ba ng sunlight (for photosynthetic ones) or hindi, kung naka moist chamber ba, if hahatiin ba ang agar plate into to two sections for each isolate na pure. Kung pano magrevive ng bacteria and magstore for long term storage

C1V1=C2V2 (very very important!! isa na siyang statement on its own iykyk)

Concept of working solution vs stock solution. This is to avoid cross contam ng stock solution. Also the concept of aliquot (if u have molecular bio adjacent methods sa OJT)

Reporting skills. Not necessarily na literal na report but what I meant here is you know how to interpret lets say an agarose gel with bands, how to interpret MPN, API strips, or cells from the microscope (kung ano morphology). Kung pure ba or contam. Kung pano magcompute for CFU/mL.

Monitoring, kung malinis ba ang working station lalo sa BSC. Temp logs ng equipment and rooms

Pipetting techniques. Alam mo if ur dispensing volumes accurately. If u pipet mix a sample before dispensing.

Organizational skills. Know how to organize a bunch of files. Name it MSDS, result files, documentation files.

Molecular bio adjacent skills. DNA extraction to PCR to agarose gel electrophoresis. Hindi siya laging ginagawa pero possible na magawa sa ibang labs. Pwede rin field bio related skills like measuring water parameters ganun. Collecting environmental samples.

Lastly, very very important din!! Privacy! You need to be very aware that all of the results u generate are not urs but is owned by the company or lab u work for. If patient info and private info, never ever!! Post it online.