Table 1 Who's hiring? Advertised openings at the 25 largest biotech companies
Number of advertised openingsb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Companya | Number of employees | Monster | Biospace | Naturejobs |
Monsanto | 22,900 | 4 | 0 | 93 |
Amgen | 17,100 | 52 | 70 | 0 |
Genzyme | 12,000 | 67 | 1 | 0 |
CSL | 10,300 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Life Technologies | 9,000 | 21 | 35 | 0 |
PerkinElmer | 8,800 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
Bio-Rad Laboratories | 6,600 | 9 | 14 | 0 |
bioMerieux | 6,300 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Millipore | 6,100 | 19 | 14 | 0 |
Novozymes | 5,122 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IDEXX Laboratories | 4,800 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Biogen Idec | 4,750 | 12 | 100 | 1 |
Shire | 3,875 | 78 | 0 | 0 |
Gilead Sciences | 3,852 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
WuXi PharmaTech | 3,773 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biocon | 3,673 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Qiagen | 3,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cephalon | 3,026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Celgene | 2,813 | 15 | 17 | 0 |
Actelion | 2,200 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Biotest | 1,834 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Illumina | 1,781 | 34 | 59 | 16 |
Amylin Pharmaceuticals | 1,500 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 1,427 | 43 | 79 | 1 |
Elan Pharmaceuticals | 1,321 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
