Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 2-22-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 2/22/10.

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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Total Job Openings:

The business services, hospitality, telecommunications, retail, banking, health care, and defense 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, Deloitte,and Booz Allen continued strong hiring. Hospitality also continued strong employment as Pizza Hut, Marriott, Cracker Barrel, Friendly’s, and Boston Market were among the top hiring firms this week.

Telecommunications firms are still looking, with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively. Retail continues staffing into February, as Sears, Kmart, JC Penny, Flying J, Murphy, Macy’s, Radio Shack and Walmart were top hiring firms.

Banking continued recruiting as JPMorganChase and PNC were included in the top hiring companies. Health care hiring continued its strong past quarter, led by HCR ManorCare, and UnitedHealth in the top 10, joined by Amedisys Home Health, Gentiva Health, Fresenius Medical Care, Genesis Healthcare, DaVita, Quest Diagnostics, and Kindred Healthcare among the health care top hiring companies.

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

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Business Services, Retail, Insurance, Telecommunications, 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.

Business Services led new hiring advertisements as Deloitte and IBM were in the top 10 this week, joined by SAIC, Siemens Business Services, and Booz Allen. Retail continued staffing this week as Sears, Toys”R”Us, Pilot, Kmart, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, and RadioShack were top job advertisers.

Insurance made a big move into the top 10 this week as Aflac jumps nearly 40 spots to number 3 – watch out for that duck! Telecommunications remained strong for the past quarter with AT&T and T-Mobile in the top 10, followed by Verizon.

Citi and PNC made the top 10 this week, while JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citizens Financial and Wells Fargo were banks among the top hiring firms this week. Health care was included in the top recruiting companies including UnitedHealth, Fresenius Medical Care, Genesis Healthcare, HCR Manorcare, Genzyme, DaVita, Amedisys Home Health, and Kindred Health Care.

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

1. Deloitte
2. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
3. Aflac
4. AT&T
5. Citi
6. IBM
7. T-Mobile
8. PNC
9. Toys"R"Us
10. UnitedHealth Group
11. Pilot Travel Centers
12. JPMorgan Chase
13. SAIC
14. Kmart
15. Raytheon
16. Fresnius Medical Care
17. Siemens Business Services
18. Booz Allen Hamilton
19. ManTech International Corporation
20. Verizon Wireless
21. Cisco
22. Snap-on Tools
23. Genesis Healthcare
24. TruGreen
25. Walmart
26. HCR Manorcare
27. Bed Bath and Beyond Inc.
28. Marriott
29. FedEx
30. Bank of America
31. Genzyme
32. DaVita
33. Citizens Financial Group
34. RadioShack
35. Macy's
36. Clearwire
37. Amedisys Home Health
38. Kindred Healthcare
39. Meineke Car Care Center
40. Wells Fargo

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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