Table 2 Advertised job openings at the ten largest pharma companies

From: First-quarter biotech job picture

Companya

Number of employees

Number of advertised openingsb

Monster

LinkedIn

Naturejobs

Johnson & Johnson

119,200

619

79

7

Bayer

106,200

9

0

10

GlaxoSmithKline

103,483

8

22

2

Sanofi

99,495

75

11

1

Novartis

98,200

102

47

5

Pfizer

86,600

1

100

953

Roche

78,604

0

20

12

Abbott Laboratories

68,697

0

271

0

AstraZeneca

67,400

68

25

16

Merck & Co.

59,800

7

34

0

Total

 

889

609

1,006

  1. aData obtained from MedAdNews.
  2. bAs searched on Monster.com, LinkedIn.com and Naturejobs.com, 10 April 2013. Jobs may overlap.