Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 2-8-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 2/8/10.

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

Hospitality held onto the #1 spot this week as Pizza Hut, Marriott, and Hilton were among the top hiring firms this week. Business Service firms IBM, Accenture, Booz Allen, Deloitte, and SAIC continue strong hiring.

Retail hiring continues hiring into February, with Blockbuster, Sears, Petco and Kmart all in the top 10 long after the holiday season, joined by Radio Shack as a top hiring firm. Defense companies remained top hiring firms led by US Army, General Dynamics, and Raytheon making the list.

Health care hiring continued its strong past quarter, led by HCR ManorCare, joined by UnitedHealth, Amedisys Home Health, Gentiva Health, Genesis Healthcare, DaVita, Centra Healthcare Solutions, Hgi Healthcare, Adventist Health System, Kindred Healthcare, Aegis Therapies, and Quest Diagnostics among the health care top hiring companies. Telecommunications continued strong hiring, with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively.

Banking stayed steady this week as JPMorganChase remained at #5 on the hiring list, while PNC, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Fifth Third were also included in the 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. PizzaHut
2. IBM
3. Blockbuster
4. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
5. U.S. Army
6. HCR ManorCare
7. AT&T
8. JPMorgan Chase
9. Petco
10. Kmart Corporation
11. UnitedHealth Group
12. Amedisys Home Health Services
13. Accenture
14. General Dynamics
15. T-Mobile
16. Raytheon
17. Gentiva Health Services
18. Verizon Wireless
19. Booz Allen
20. Deloitte
21. Snap-on Tools
22. PNC
23. Aflac
24. Genesis Healthcare
25. DaVita
26. Marriott
27. SAIC
28. Wells Fargo
29. Bank of America
30. Centra Healthcare Solutions
31. Hilton Hotels
32. Hgi Healthcare
33. Adventist Health System
34. Combined Insurance
35. RadioShack Sales
36. Fifth Third Bank
37. Kindred Healthcare
38. Aegis Therapies
39. InsphereIS
40. Quest Diagnostics

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Hospitality, Retail, Telecommunications, Business Services, Banking, and Health care 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.

Hospitality led new hiring advertisements with Pizza Hut, McDonald’s and Hilton took out new employment listings. Retail stayed strong this month as Blockbuster, Sears, Macy’s, and RadioShack were top job advertisers.

Telecommunications remained strong for the past quarter with AT&T continuing top 10, followed by T-Mobile. Verizon is still hiring for its wireless division, even as it announced large layoffs in its land line units. Business Services continues as a hiring leader, with IBM, Accenture, SAIC, Booz Allen, and Deloitte in the top employers.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, PNC, and Fifth Third were banks included in the top companies with new ads this week. Health care had 10 companies included in the top job advertisers including Amedisys Home Health, UnitedHealth, Gentiva, Genzyme, Adventist Health System, Genesis Healthcare, Odyssey Healthcare, DaVita, Kindred Healthcare, and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

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

1. PizzaHut
2. Blockbuster Inc.
3. AT&T
4. IBM
5. Accenture
6. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
7. JPMorgan Chase
8. Amedisys Home Health Services
9. SAIC
10. Raytheon
11. T-Mobile
12. U.S. Army
13. UnitedHealth Group
14. Macy's
15. Deloitte
16. Edward Jones
17. Gentiva
18. Booz Allen Hamilton
19. McDonald's Corporation
20. Deloitte
21. SAIC
22. Wells Fargo
23. RadioShack
24. Genzyme
25. Adventist Health System
26. Genesis Healthcare
27. Bank of America
28. PNC
29. Odyssey Healthcare
30. Snap-on Tools
31. General Dynamics
32. DaVita
33. Hilton Hotels
34. Verizon Wireless
35. Kindred Healthcare
36. Surveysay.com
37. Century 21 Real Estate
38. Fifth Third Bank
39. Terminix
40. New York Presbyterian Hospital

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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