Monday, October 19, 2009

Who's Hiring? Week of 10/19/09


Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding.

Total Job Openings:
The Restaurant, Retail, Telecommunications, Defense, Health Care, and Banking verticals continue as the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards.

Retail hiring kicked it into high gear, in preparation for the holiday season, with Sears, Kmart, Macy’s and Radio Shack leading the list. Northrop, Raytheon, & General Dynamics led Defense hiring. Top hiring financial institutions included JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Citi made this week’s list. No surprise that Healthcare hiring remained strong.

Other interesting top hiring companies included consulting firm Booz Allen, and hotels Hilton & Marriott. Century 21 hiring increased, and remained on the top hiring company list. UPS is staffing up for the holidays, making its first appearance on the list.

Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies added the most job openings:

Total Job Openings by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

  1. McDonald's Corporation
  2. AT&T
  3. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  4. Kmart Corporation
  5. Northrop Grumman
  6. Verizon Wireless
  7. Raytheon
  8. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC
  9. General Dynamics - IT
  10. JPMorgan Chase
  11. Macy's
  12. Booz Allen Hamilton
  13. UnitedHealth Group
  14. RadioShack
  15. UPS Packaging
  16. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  17. Quest Diagnostics
  18. Kindred Healthcare
  19. Hilton Hotels
  20. Terminix
  21. Amedisys Home Health
  22. Century 21 Real Estate
  23. Morgan Stanley Smith
  24. Marriott
  25. George S. May
  26. ACS
  27. PSA Healthcare
  28. Aegis Therapies
  29. University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
  30. Citi

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Telecommunication, Restaurant, Defense, Shipping, and Hospitality verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards.

Financial services companies continue to expand with Scottrade continuing heavy hiring, joined by TD Bank. Real Estate company Century 21 also joined the top companies hiring this week. Of course, Sears, Toys”R”Us, Macy’s, UPS, and RadioShack are preparing for the holiday rush. Take Care Health (Walgreens in-store clinics) are adding staff, getting ready to give all those flu shots.

Job Openings Added this week by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

  1. AT&T
  2. McDonald's
  3. Sears, Roebuck and Co
  4. Northrop Grumman
  5. Toys"R"Us
  6. Macy's
  7. UPS
  8. Verizon Wireless
  9. General Dynamics Information Technology
  10. RadioShack
  11. Raytheon
  12. Hilton Hotels Corporation
  13. Deloitte
  14. Flextronics
  15. Apex Systems
  16. Genesis Healthcare
  17. UnitedHealth Group
  18. Quest Diagnostics
  19. Century 21 Real Estate
  20. Kindred Healthcare
  21. Scottrade
  22. George S. May
  23. HEALTHSOUTH
  24. TD Bank
  25. TruGreen
  26. Affiliated Computer Services
  27. Medassurant
  28. Take Care Health Systems
  29. ACS
Sources: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, HotJobs, Google. Excluded: Recruiters, Staffing firms, Training, Franchise, and Work-from-home opportunities.

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