reCareered: Who's Hiring? Week of 10/12/09

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

Job Openings Added This Week:

The Restaurant, Retail, Telecommunications, Contracting, Education, Banking/Financial Services, Defense, and Health Care verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards.

Some interesting companies expanding with new ads this week are Perini Plumbing, hiring plumbing and mechanical contractors nationwide – including inexperienced hires. Financial services companies continue to expand with JPMorgan Chase continuing heavy hiring, joined by Edward Jones, Ameriprise Financial, Scottrade, and Freddie Mac. Real Estate company CB Richard Ellis also joined the top companies hiring this week.

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

1. McDonald's


2. Sears, Roebuck and Co.


3. Kmart


4. AT&T


5. Perini Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors


6. Macy's


7. Murphy USA


8. KinderCare Learning Centers


9. JPMorgan Chase


10. RadioShack Corporation


11. Northrop Grumman


12. General Dynamics Information Technology


13. Edward Jones


14. Verizon Wireless


15. UnitedHealth Group


16. Raytheon


17. University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey


18. Verizon Wireless


19. Apex Systems


20. Quest Diagnostics


21. Sava Senior Care


22. Ameriprise Financial


23. Scottrade


24. Siemens


25. Yellow Pages


26. McGraw-Hill


27. Kindred Healthcare


28. Cingular Wireless


29. Freddie Mac


30. ACS


31. Accenture (corp.)


32. Bojangles'


33. CB Richard Ellis

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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