Who's Hiring - Top employers week of 3-29-10

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 3/29/10.

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.

Total Job Openings:
The retail, telecommunications, business services, health care, hospitality, and banking 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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Retail topped this week's list as it continued staffing into March. Advance Auto Parts, Sears, Kmart, and Lowe's were all top 10 hiring firms, followed by Blockbuster, Macy’s, Walgreens and Radio Shack. Telecommunications firms were next with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon still staffing actively. Business Service is still looking, with IBM, and Booz Allen continued strong hiring.

Health care hiring continued strong hiring for the past half year, led by HCR ManorCare, Amedisys Home Health, Gentiva Health, UnitedHealth, Genesis Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, DaVita, Kindred Health Care, Fresenius Medical Care, and Quest Diagnostics among the top hiring companies. Hospitality added employees with PizzaHut, Marriott, and Hilton making this week's list.

Banking is still recruiting as JPMorganChase, PNC, and Bank of America were 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. Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
2. AT&T
3. Sears
4. IBM
5. Kmart Corporation
6. T-Mobile
7. Lowe's
8. HCR ManorCare
9. PizzaHut
10. Deloitte
11. JPMorgan Chase
12. General Dynamics
13. Amedisys Home Health Services
14. Gentiva Health Services
15. Blockbuster
16. Booz Allen Hamilton
17. PNC Bank
18. UnitedHealth Group
19. Verizon Wireless
20. Macy's
21. Genesis Healthcare
22. Marriott
23. U.S. Army
24. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
25. U.S. Navy
26. Raytheon
27. Snap-on Tools
28. Kaiser Permanente
29. DaVita
30. TruGreen
31. La Petite Academy
32. Hilton Hotels
33. Terminix
34. Walgreens
35. RadioShack
36. Columbia University
37. Bank of America
38. Kindred Healthcare
39. Quest Diagnostics
40. Combined Insurance 

Job Openings Added This Week:

The retail, telecommunications, business services, and defense 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 was new hiring advertisements this week as Advance Auto Parts, Sears, Kmart, GNC, Safeway, JC Penny, Lowe's, Dick's Sporting Goods, Murphy USA, Macy's, and Walgreens were top job advertisers. Telecommunication continued staffing this week with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon making the top new job listings this week.

Business Services came in next with IBM, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and ACS were included in the top job advertisers this week. Defense was also strong in staffing with General Dynamics, and Raytheon in the week's top firms.

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

1. Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
2. AT&T
3. Sears
4. T-Mobile
5. Kmart
6. GNC
7. IBM
8. Safeway, Inc.
9. JCPenney
10. Lowe's
11. Deloitte
12. Booz Allen Hamilton
13. Dick's Sporting Goods
14. General Dynamics
15. Murphy USA
16. Edward Jones
17. Siemens
18. La Petite Academy
19. JPMorganChase
20. Merck
21. UnitedHealth Group
22. La Petite Academy
23. Bank of America
24. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
25. PNC
26. Marriott
27. HCR Manorcare
28. Verizon Wireless
29. Wells Fargo
30. Raytheon
31. Genesis Healthcare
32. Macy's
33. Quest Diagnostics
34. TruGreen
35. University of Southern California
36. Walgreens
37. Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)
38. Capital One
39. Snap-on Tools
40. Hilton Hotels 

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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