Medtronic's home page on the World Wide Web maintains a partial listing of current employment opportunities. On April 18, 1998 there were openings for sixty-three (63) distinct job titles divided into six categories: Engineering/Scientist (26), Finance (5), Human Resources (2), Information Systems (7), Regulatory/Quality/Clinical (15), Technician (2), and Other Professional (6). The large number of jobs described in the first category alone is sufficient to establish that Medtronic has a high degree of specialization.

Advanced degrees or specialized training

This concerns the level or degree of professionalism, i.e., the level of formal education and training of employees in an organization. Medtronic has a very large number of managerial, professional, and technical employees including several kinds of engineers and scientists, medical doctors, professional managers, legal and sales staff.

This large number is due, in large part, to the "high-tech" nature of Medtronic's products and the high levels of education required both to design  and to market such products. Decision-makers for the purchase of much of Medtronic's equipment include cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and electro-physiologists. It follows that products produced by, and sold to, such highly-educated users would require Medtronic to have both a very highly educated and trained workforce and a high proportion of such people in its organization. It is quite possible that the percentage is over 50% but it is not possible to tell, given the information examined. It is almost a certainty that the percentage is over 20%, however.