Who's Hiring - Top employers week of 4-19-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 4/19/10.

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

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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:
Retail headed the list as it continues staffing growth since before the holiday season. Advance Auto Parts, Sears, Lowe's, Kmart, and Blockbuster were all top 10 hiring firms, while Macy’s was also in the top hiring firms. Telecommunications firms are still looking with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively.

Business Service firms were next with IBM, Deloitte, CSC and PriceWaterhouseCoopers continuing to advertise for new hires. Health care continued strong hiring for the past half year, led by HCR ManorCare, Gentiva, UnitedHealth, DaVita, Faulkner Hospital, Genesis Healthcare, Brookdale Senior Living, Kindred Health Care, Kaiser Permanente and Amedisys Home Health were 10 of the top 40 hiring companies.

Hospitality rounded out this week's top employers, as Pizza Hut, Marriott, Friendly's and Hilton continued heavy job advertisements.

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. Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
2. AT&T
3. IBM
4. Sears
5. Lowe's
6. Kmart
7. HCR ManorCare
8. Blockbuster
9. Deloitte
10. Pizza Hut
11. T-Mobile
12. General Dynamics
13. Gentiva
14. US Army
15. Verizon Wireless
16. Raytheon
17. JPMorgan Chase
18. UnitedHealth Group
19. Macy's
20. DaVita
21. Marriott
22. Faulkner Hospital
23. Friendly's
24. PNC
25. Genesis Healthcare
26. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
27. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
28. Brookdale Senior Living
29. Aflac
30. PricewaterhouseCoopers
31. La Petite Academy
32. Hilton Hotels
33. Snap-on Tools
34. Kindred Healthcare
35. TruGreen
36. Bank of America
37. Kaiser Permanente
38. Combined Insurance
39. Terminix
40. Amedisys Home Health

Job Openings Added This Week:

The business services, telecommunications, retail, health care and food processing 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 this week with IBM, and Deloitte made the top ten new job listings this week. Telecommunications was next as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon are looking for employees.

Retail is recruiting as Sears, Toys"R"Us, Lowe's, Petco, Kmart, Macy's, Food Lion, Walmart and TJX were looking for employees. Hospitality continued staffing this week as Pizza Hut, Marriott, and Hilton were top job advertisers. Health care continues to search for people as HCR Manorcare, UnitedHealth, Gentiva, Brookdale Senior Living, DaVita, Cardinal Health, and Genisis Healthcare were included in the top job advertisers this week.

Food processing rounded out the top ten as Pepsi increase hiring and is one of this week's top new advertisers.

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

1. IBM
2. AT&T
3. Sears
4. Deloitte
5. Toys"R"Us
6. Lowe's
7. HCR ManorCare
8. Petco
9. Pepsi Beverages Company
10. Kmart Corporation
11. UnitedHealth Group
12. KinderCare Learning Centers
13. Gentiva
14. Edward Jones
15. Raytheon Company
16. Macy's
17. ManTech International Corporation
18. Cracker Barrel
19. T-Mobile
20. Verizon
21. Friendly's
22. Wells Fargo
23. Brookdale Senior Living
24. TruGreen
25. DaVita
26. Marriott
27. Food Lion
28. PNC
29. Cardinal Health
30. Bank of America
31. Genesis Healthcare
32. Terminix
33. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
34. HP
35. Snap-on Tools
36. Columbia University
37. Walmart
38. Hilton Hotels
39. TJX Companies
40. URS Corporation

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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