Who's Hiring - Top employers week of 4-26-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 4/26/10.

The retail, business services, telecommunications, 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 continued to head the list as it continues staffing growth since before the holiday season. Advance Auto Parts, Lowe's, Sears, and Blockbuster were all top 10 hiring firms, while Kmart and Macy’s were also in the top hiring firms. Business Service firms were next with IBM and Deloitte continuing to advertise for new hires.

Telecommunications firms are still looking with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively. Health care continued strong hiring for the past half year, led by HCR ManorCare, Fresnius Medical Care, UnitedHealth, DaVita, Faulkner Hospital, Genesis Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Kindred Health Care, Quest Diagnostics 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. IBM
3. AT&T
4. Lowe's
5. HCR ManorCare
6. Sears
7. Blockbuster
8. T-Mobile
9. PizzaHut
10. Deloitte
11. Kmart Corporation
12. Verizon Wireless
13. General Dynamics
14. Aflac
15. JPMorgan
16. Macy's
17. Fresenius Medical Care
18. UnitedHealth Group
19. DaVita
20. Marriott
21. Raytheon
22. U.S. Army
23. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
24. Faulkner Hospital
25. Friendly's
26. Genesis Healthcare
27. Hilton Hotels
28. La Petite Academy
29. Kaiser Permanente
30. Snap-on Tools
31. Kindred Healthcare
32. Quest Diagnostics
33. TruGreen
34. Bank of America
35. PSSG
36. Combined Insurance
37. Terminix
38. Amedisys Home Health
39. URS Corporation
40. Childtime

Job Openings Added This Week:

The retail, telecommunications, business services, health care and hospitality 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.

Retail led new hiring advertisements this week with Advance Auto Parts, Sears, Pilot, Lowe's, Kmart, Macy's, Walmart and Radio Shack were looking for employees. Telecommunications was next as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are looking for employees. Business service is recruiting as IBM, Deloitte and Booz Allen were included in the top job advertisers this week.

Health care continues to search for people as Amadisys, HCR Manorcare, DaVita, Genisis Healthcare, UnitedHealth, Kaiser Permanente, Sundance Rehabilitation, Integris Health, Texas Health, and Quest Diagnostics were included as 10 of the top 40 job advertisers this week. Hospitality continued staffing this week as KFC, Hilton and Marriott, and were still staffing.

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

1. Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
2. AT&T
3. IBM
4. Deloitte
5. Amedisys, Inc.
6. Sears
7. HCR ManorCare
8. Kentucky Fried Chicken
9. Pilot Travel Centers
10. Lowe's
11. Pepsi Beverages Company
12. Verizon
13. Kmart
14. US Navy
15. T-Mobile
16. Booz Allen
17. TruGreen
18. Hilton Hotels Corp.
19. Macy's
20. Raytheon
21. Bank of America
22. Wells Fargo
23. Terminix
24. DaVita
25. AAA
26. Citi
27. Walmart
28. Genesis Healthcare
29. Snap-on Tools
30. Marriott
31. UnitedHealth Group
32. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
33. Kaiser Permanente
34. Sundance Rehabilitation
35. Columbia University
36. RadioShack
37. PDS Tech
38. Integris Health
39. Texas Health
40. Quest Diagnostics

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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