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CAREERS AND RECRUITMENT
Second-quarter biotech job picture
Table 2 Advertised job openings at the ten largest pharma companies
Number of advertised openingsb Companya Number of employees Monster Biospace Naturejobs Johnson & Johnson 119,200 532 11 0 Bayer 106,200 68 1 9 GlaxoSmithKline 103,483 0 0 3 Sanofi-aventis 99,495 30 3 0 Novartis 98,200 41 59 0 Pfizer 86,600 0 63 19 Roche 78,604 10 34 7 Abbott Laboratories 68,697 33 32 2 AstraZeneca 67,400 83 1 9 Merck & Co. 59,800 0 2 1
aData obtained from MedAdNews. bAs searched on Monster.com, Biospace.com and Naturejobs.com, 12 July 2011. Jobs may overlap.
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Michael Francisco
Hiring numbers in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors held steady in the second quarter of 2011, as seen in three representative job
databases tracked by Nature Biotechnology (Tables 1 and 2). Compared with the first quarter of 2011 (Nat. Biotechnol. 29, 460, 2011), Shire (Dublin) leads the list of job listing increases, with Amylin (San Diego), Monsanto (St. Louis), PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA, USA) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA, USA) following. On the pharma side, China remains in the spotlight as new listings...