Whos Hiring - Top Employers week of 11-2-09
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 11/2/09. 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 Business Services, Shipping, Retail, Defense, Telecommunications verticals remain the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations' top job boards.
Seasonal retail hiring continued strong, in preparation for the holiday season, with Sears, Kmart, Macy's, and Radio Shack leading, with Blockbuster and Food Lion also added to top hiring companies. Seasonal holiday hiring also affected shipping with UPS and FedEx making the top employers list. H&R Block continued heavy advertising to staff up in advance of tax season.
Business Service firms IBM, SAIC, Booz Allen, Deloitte and CSC are all top hiring firms - SAIC & Booz are largely supporting federal government and DOD contracts. US Army, Northrop, Raytheon and General Dynamics led Defense hiring.
Other interesting top hiring companies included HP, Sun Microsystems, Liberty Mutual and Combined Insurance.
Job Openings Added This Week:
The Business Services, Telecommunication, Defense, Retail and Shipping verticals are the top industries with new job ads based on a survey of recent advertisements from the nations' top job boards.
Consulting firms companies continue to expand with IBM and SAIC, and IBM continuing to hire, joined by Accenture and PWC. While state governments continue to lead layoffs, it's interesting to see the California State Personnel Board make the top hiring company lists.
Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies added the most job openings:
To find out Who's Hiring, read the whole article at http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-hiring-top-employers-week-of-11-2.html
Phil Rosenberg is President of reCareered and runs Career Change Central, recently named one of Linkedin's top groups that job seekers must join. An active blogger about career transition, Phil's articles have been republished by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, FastCompany and dozens of job/recruiting sites.
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