As biopharma professionals look for their next opportunities in the wake of ongoing layoffs, year-over-year BioSpace data shows there are fewer job postings live on the website and far more competition for them. For the third quarter of 2024, there were 21,548 jobs live on the site, down from 24,503 in the same quarter of 2023, a 12% decrease. During that same time, the job response rate—the percentage of people applying to positions after viewing them—rose 51%, jumping from 9.8% to 14.8%.
AVERAGE JOBS LIVE, Q3 2022-Q3 2024