Table 1 Who's hiring? Advertised job openings at the 25 largest biotech companies
Companya | Number of employees | Number of advertised openingsb | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Monster | Naturejobs | |||
Monsanto | 21,400 | 4 | 246 | 0 |
Amgen | 17,250 | 87 | 135 | 0 |
Life Technologies | 11,000 | 28 | 38 | 991 |
Genzyme | 10,100 | 126 | 8 | 0 |
CSL | 9,992 | 1 | 50 | 0 |
Bio-Rad Laboratories | 6,880 | 17 | 11 | 0 |
bioMerieux | 6,378 | 27 | 19 | 0 |
PerkinElmer | 6,200 | 61 | 24 | 0 |
Novozymes | 5,655 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Biogen Idec | 4,850 | 5 | 44 | 0 |
IDEXX Laboratories | 4,800 | 14 | 28 | 0 |
Biocon | 4,478 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
WuXi AppTec | 4,465 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shire | 4,183 | 49 | 90 | 0 |
Celgene | 4,182 | 20 | 43 | 169 |
Gilead Sciences | 4,000 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
Cephalon | 3,726 | 0 | 175 | 0 |
Qiagen | 3,587 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Endo Pharmaceuticals | 2,947 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
Actelion | 2,441 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
Illumina | 2,100 | 95 | 12 | 1 |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 1,691 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
Biotest Pharmaceuticals | 1,627 | 0 | 53 | 0 |
Dendreon | 1,497 | 0 | 49 | 0 |
Albany Molecular Research | 1,421 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | Â | 542 | 1,089 | 1,161 |
