Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 12-28-09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 12/28/09. 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.

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The hospitality, business services, retail, banking, telecommunications, health care and defense verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards. Of course overall advertised openings were down a bit this week due to the holiday.

Hospitality continued strong hiring, with Pizza Hut, Cracker Barrel, and Hilton among the top hiring firms this week. Business Service firms IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, CSC, and SAIC continue to be in the top hiring firms, partially due to support of federal government and DOD contracts.

Retail hiring remains strong despite the holiday season at it’s end, with Blockbuster and Sears in the top 10, as retailers firmed up their holiday coverage. Banking continued strong this week as JPMorganChase registered #7 on the hiring list, and Wells Fargo continued its ranking in the top hiring companies.

Telecommunications continued strong hiring, with AT&T, and Verizon still strong on hiring. Health care hiring has been strong for the past quarter, led by UnitedHealth, HCR Manorcare, Gentiva Health, Amedisys Home Health, HGI Healthcare, Aegis Therapies, Quest Diagnostics, and Kindred Healthcare among the health care top hiring companies.

Defense companies remained top hiring firms led by US Army, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and BAE making 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. Pizza Hut
2. IBM
3. Blockbuster
4. AT&T
5. UnitedHealth Group
6. U.S. Army
7. JPMorgan Chase
8. Raytheon
9. Sears
10. General Dynamics
11. HCR ManorCare
12. BAE Systems
13. Accenture
14. Deloitte
15. Kmart
16. Booz Allen Hamilton
17. Gentiva
18. Verizon Wireless
19. Murphy USA
20. Snap-on Tools
21. Food Lion
22. Wells Fargo
23. Liberty Mutual
24. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
25. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
26. Amedisys Home Health
27. FedEx
28. Combined Insurance
29. Hgi Healthcare
30. SAIC
31. Century 21 Real Estate
32. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
33. Aegis Therapies
34. Quest Diagnostics
35. Hilton Hotels
36. RadioShack
37. Kindred Healthcare
38. Fifth Third Bank
39. Allstate
40. Juniper Networks
41. Golden Living Centers
42. Bed Bath and Beyond Inc.
43. Apex Systems
44. Macy's
45. Extendicare Health

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Hospitality, Retail, Business Services, Telecommunications, Defense, and Health Care verticals are the top industries with new job ads based on a survey of recent advertisements from the nations’ top job boards added during the past seven days.
Hospitality led hiring this week with Pizza Hut remaining at the top of the hiring list. Retail continued to advertise right up to Christmas with Blockbuster, JCPenney, Toys “R” Us, Murphy, Sears, Target, and Food Lion still in the top hiring firms.

Business Services continued heavy hiring with IBM, SAIC, Booz Allen, Accenture, and Deloitte all in the top employers. Telecommunications remained strong for two months straight AT&T and Verizon continuing as employment advertisers.

Defense continued near the top US Army, and General Dynamics included in the top new employment advertisers this week. However, the number of defense positions and the number of top hiring defense firms took a significant dive this week … possibly due to slower holiday employment advertising.

Health Care rounds out the top employers with strong hiring by HCR ManorCare, Merck, Bayada Nurses, Amedisys, Cardinal Health, United Health Group, PSA Healthcare, and Golden Living Centers, all in the top 40.

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

1. Pizza Hut
2. Blockbuster Inc.
3. IBM
4. JCPenney
5. Murphy USA
6. AT&T
7. SAIC
8. U.S. Army Medical Corps
9. HCR ManorCare
10. Booz Allen Hamilton
11. Accenture
12. JPMorgan Chase
13. Sears
14. Merck
15. Target Corporation
16. General Dynamics
17. RadioShack
18. Reyes Transportation
19. Deloitte
20. Wells Fargo
21. Food Lion
22. Liberty Mutual
23. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
24. Combined Insurance
25. Apex Systems
26. Bayada Nurses
27. Amedisys
28. HMS
29. Cardinal Health
30. Bank of America
31. La Petite Academy
32. Snap-on Tools
33. UnitedHealth Group
34. Juniper Networks
35. PSA Healthcare Enhanced
36. Golden Living Centers
37. Century 21 Real Estate
38. R-solutions
39. Bank of America
40. McGraw-Hill
41. Cisco
42. Extendicare Health
43. Hilton Hotels
44. Aegis Therapies
45. Fifth Third Bank

Sources: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, HotJobs, Google. Excluded: Recruiters, Staffing firms, Training, Franchise, and Work-from-home opportunities.

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