Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 2-15-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 2/15/10.

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 business services, hospitality, retail, defense, banking, telecommunications, and health care verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards.

Business Service topped this week’s list with IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen continued strong hiring. Hospitality also continued strong employment as Pizza Hut, Marriott, Cracker Barrel, Friendly’s, Boston Market, and Hilton were among the top hiring firms this week.

Retail hiring continues staffing into February, as Sears and Kmart made the top 10 long after the holiday season joined by JC Penny, Flying J, and Murphy as top hiring firms. Defense companies remained top hiring firms led by US Army, General Dynamics, and Raytheon making the list.

Banking continued recruiting as JPMorganChase and PNC were included in the top hiring companies. Telecommunications firms are still looking, with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively.

Health care hiring continued its strong past quarter, led by UnitedHealth, joined by Amedisys Home Health, Gentiva Health, Fresenius Medical Care, HCR ManorCare, Genesis Healthcare, DaVita, Quest Diagnostics, Hgi Healthcare, and Kindred Healthcare among the health care top hiring companies.

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. IBM
2. PizzaHut
3. Accenture
4. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
5. U.S. Army
6. JPMorgan Chase
7. AT&T
8. Deloitte
9. Kmart
10. General Dynamics
11. UnitedHealth Group
12. Raytheon
13. T-Mobile
14. Amedisys
15. JCPenney
16. Gentiva Health Services
17. Fresenius Medical Care
18. Booz Allen
19. Verizon Wireless
20. Marriott
21. HCR Manorcare
22. Flying J
23. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
24. Murphy USA
25. PNC
26. Genesis Healthcare
27. Snap-on Tools
28. DaVita
29. Friendly's
30. Boston Market
31. KinderCare Learning Centers
32. La Petite Academy
33. Hilton Hotels
34. Quest Diagnostics
35. Hgi Healthcare
36. Aflac
37. Columbia University
38. Combined Insurance
39. RadioShack
40. Kindred Healthcare

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Business Services, Telecommunications, Health care, Retail, and Banking verticals are the top industries with new job postings based on a survey of the nations’ leading job advertisements added during the past seven days.

Business Services led new hiring advertisements as IBM and Deloitte were the top two hiring companies this week, joined by SAIC and Accenture. Telecommunications remained strong for the past quarter with AT&T continuing top 10, followed by T-Mobile and Verizon.

Health care was included in the top recruiting companies including UnitedHealth, Fresenius Medical Care, Quest Diagnostics, and Genzyme. Retail continued staffing this week as Sears, Toys”R”Us, Kmart, Macy’s, Walgreens, RadioShack and CVS/Caremark were top job advertisers.

Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citizen’s Financial were banks among the top hiring firms this week.

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

IBM
1. Deloitte
2. AT&T
3. HCR ManorCare
4. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
5. Citi
6. Toys"R"Us
7. SAIC
8. JPMorgan Chase
9. Kmart Corporation
10. UnitedHealth Group
11. T-Mobile
12. General Dynamics
13. Fresenius Medical Care
14. Cracker Barrel
15. Verizon Wireless
16. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
17. Friendly's
18. Marriott
19. Accenture
20. Pizza Hut
21. Ann Taylor
22. Quest Diagnostics
23. Wells Fargo
24. Genzyme
25. Joe's Crab Shack
26. FedEx Office
27. Bank of America
28. Macy's
29. Snap-on Tools
30. Hilton Hotels
31. Walgreens
32. RadioShack
33. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
34. Verizon Wireless
35. Raytheon
36. R-solutions
37. Citizens Financial Group
38. Dave & Buster's
39. CVS Caremark

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

Readers – If you know of employers announcing significant hiring plans, or employers actively adding large numbers of employees, please comment below to add to this list.

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