News >> Browse Articles >> Careers
reCareered: Who's Hiring? Week of 10/12/09
Article Submitted by:
Phil Rosenberg
October 16, 2009
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. 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 Restaurant, Retail, Telecommunications, Health Care, Defense and Banking verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards.
Restaurants including McDonald's, Cracker Barrel, and Arby’s were heavy job advertisers for the past month. Retailers continued hiring for the holiday season, with Blockbuster, Sears, Kmart, Macy’s, RadioShack actively searching for employees. Top Telcom hiring companies included AT&T, Verizon, and Cingular making this week’s list.
Other interesting top hiring companies included an expanded number of Banking and Financial Services companies, expanding beyond traditional banks. Banking and Financial Service companies included JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citizens’ Financial, and Citi. Some surprises included Century 21 and the hospitality industry (Marriott & Hilton).
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. McDonald's Corporation
2. Blockbuster
3. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
4. AT&T
5. Kmart Corporation
6. Gentiva Health Services
7. Raytheon
8. Northrop Grumman
9. JPMorgan Chase
10. Verizon Wireless
11. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC
12. General Dynamics - IT
13. Macy's
14. RadioShack Corporation
15. UnitedHealth Group
16. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
17. Quest Diagnostics
18. Kindred Healthcare
19. Terminix
20. Century 21 Real Estate
21. Marriott
22. Morgan Stanley Smith
23. Arby's
24. Deloitte
25. ACS
26. University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
27. George S. May
28. Citizens Financial Group
29. Hilton Hotels
30. Flextronics
31. Citi
32. Cingular Wireless
