By Charles Thibault on July 6, 2009 in Employer Watch.

In our weekly feature, we discuss Hiring Demand at the company level. WANTED's weekly Gazelles Report details advertisers whose online recruitment activity has shown significant upward trending in the past 28 days.

AT&T (NYSE: T) has appeared in our weekly Gazelles report for the past three weeks. Spikes in Hiring Demand for AT&T have mostly been concentrated in Sales occupations – it has more than doubled the number of new job ads placed on a weekly basis, moving from an average 2,700 job postings to 6,000 last week.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) manufactures heavy duty vehicle and vehicle parts, such as fire trucks, military purposed vehicles for the United States Department of Defense, or other heavy-duty haul or specialty transportation vehicles. Oshkosh Corporation was a top gainer on July 1, 2009. Hiring Demand at Oshkosh has been on an upward trend since December, and has tripled over the past two months.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

MarineMax (NYSE: HZO) was also a top gainer on July 1, 2009.  MarineMax showed up on this week's Gazelles report, but it has also had impressive surges in Hiring Demand in February and March.  Its stock price has finally caught up to these surges, moving from $1.19 on March 9th to a high of $6.05 on May 5th, to settle around $3.50 this week.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:HOT), the leisure and hotel chain, has seen its stock price more than double since mid March.  Its Hiring Demand is also trending back upwards, after a significant slowdown.  In fact, Hiring Demand has been cut by a factor of five, and its stock price has fallen five-fold since May 2008.  Both are trending back upwards, however.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Finally, Dollar General Corporation, which is not publicly traded but is ranked #259 on the Fortune 1000 list, has shown constant progression since early 2008. This is consistent with Wal-Mart's recent success in these difficult economic times, as consumers move towards lower-end retailers.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

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