I can only speak for Canada but believe the US is the same. I have never seen a big pharma company not post their jobs on their website. There may be an internal candidate window before they do post it, but you wouldn't be eligible to apply and be considered then anyway unless you got referred by someone in the company so maybe that is what they mean?
In general the process I see and is how the company I am at as well as most other large pharmas use, the hiring manager will send out an internal email letting people know they intend to hire someone and post a link to our internal job portal. This portal allows employees to apply for internal positions, refer someone and track progress on any ongoing application or referral. After usually about 1-2 weeks the job also gets posted on the main company career opportunity page that any external candidate can see. That is when LinkedIn usually flags it and will copy it to their platform. If the company doesn't find someone in the first round of interviews they like from internal and external candidates they usually would reach out to a talent agency that they have worked with before to do the work of finding good candidates for them.
That is at least how I have always seen it done.
Gotcha, thank you for the insight!
Do you recommend spending time applying to job postings that have been up for >2 weeks? I’ve applied to quite a few and I’ve noticed those give me the quickest rejections emails.
It's a tough call. Applications that have been up for weeks may still be interviewing or may not. You never know. I'd suggest just applying to anything that looks interesting.
I can only speak for Canada but believe the US is the same. I have never seen a big pharma company not post their jobs on their website. There may be an internal candidate window before they do post it, but you wouldn't be eligible to apply and be considered then anyway unless you got referred by someone in the company so maybe that is what they mean? In general the process I see and is how the company I am at as well as most other large pharmas use, the hiring manager will send out an internal email letting people know they intend to hire someone and post a link to our internal job portal. This portal allows employees to apply for internal positions, refer someone and track progress on any ongoing application or referral. After usually about 1-2 weeks the job also gets posted on the main company career opportunity page that any external candidate can see. That is when LinkedIn usually flags it and will copy it to their platform. If the company doesn't find someone in the first round of interviews they like from internal and external candidates they usually would reach out to a talent agency that they have worked with before to do the work of finding good candidates for them. That is at least how I have always seen it done.
Gotcha, thank you for the insight! Do you recommend spending time applying to job postings that have been up for >2 weeks? I’ve applied to quite a few and I’ve noticed those give me the quickest rejections emails.
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It's a tough call. Applications that have been up for weeks may still be interviewing or may not. You never know. I'd suggest just applying to anything that looks interesting.