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2008

Target Jobs Winner 2008 - Sector Award Engineering & Science GSK was awarded the 2008 Most Popular Recruiter - Engineering and Science at the annual National Graduate Recruitment Awards. Almost 30,000 graduates and post-graduates cast their votes for awards covering eight key business sectors to honour the best graduate recruiters. We were also a finalist in the Employer of the Year category. The awards were organised by Target, the career specialist publisher. 

2008 Times Top 100 Graduate Employers The Times Top 100 list is produced annually by The Times and High Fliers research who produce the UK Graduate Careers Survey. It is based on face-to-face interviews with more than 15,000 students studying at 30 leading universities in the UK and Ireland. The students are asked which employer they think offers the best graduate opportunities and the students are only allowed to give one response. GSK has consistently been one of the top 20 Graduate Employers for the last four years and was ranked 14th in the UK 2008 Times Top 100 Graduate Employers List.

2008 Employer of Choice for Research & Development GSK has been voted The 2008 Times Employer of Choice for Research and Development for the fourth year running. The two runners up were again NHS and AstraZeneca. This result was gathered from the survey from those students who had or were applying for positions within the R&D Career Sector. They were asked to name two employers they would most like to work for. Out of a list of 150 companies developed by 1677 students GSK was mentioned most frequently.

GSK receives Top Honours from NBGH for Providing Healthy Workplace and Promoting Healthy Lifestyles 2008 GSK was among 52 employers to receive the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles award at the Leadership Summit sponsored by the National Business Group on Health’s Institute on the Costs and Health Effects of Obesity. GSK received a Platinum Award - the highest honour - for its commitment to fostering a culture that supports healthy high performance.

Britain's Top Employers 2008 In Britain's Top Employers 2008, GSK has received the fourth highest score out of 78 companies. Companies were judged by an independent research team and panel of experts on their performance in a number of areas. Download PDF (64kb).

17 years on the Working Mother 100 best companies list For the seventeenth consecutive year GSK has been named one of the '100 Best Companies' by Working Mother magazine. Recognised as an employer of choice for working families, GSK offers flexible working, a supportive culture, and best practice policies to ease the difficulties for working parents and their families.

Employer of choice for Research and Development The Times Newspaper's Top 100 Award for "Employer of Choice for Research and Development" - third year in a row.

One of the top 50 best companies to work for in Ireland GSK CH Ireland were named one of the Top 50 Best Companies to Work For in Ireland (for the 5th year running). This is given by an independent research company based on employee feedback and analysis of our people policies.

GlaxoSmithKline recognized as one of the Ten Best Employers in Canada 2008 GSK Canada has once again been named one of the 50 Best Employers in Canada in the annual list published by The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine. GSK Canada

GSK chosen as one of Denmark’s 10 best places to work In competition with more than 100 other Danish companies GSK has been named the 10th best workplace by the Great Place to Work Institute Denmark. The ranking is based on an employee survey and a culture evaluation.

GSK Denmark wins ‘Best Foreign Company of the Year’ award GSK Denmark has been named 2008 Foreign Company of the Year award by the American Chamber of Commerce in Denmark. The annual award highlights the significance of foreign investment in Denmark, and recognises the contributions, importance and positive impact made by foreign companies operating in the country.

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