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Hiring Demand at the Top 20 Most Profitable Companies

By Juli Morris on May 11, 2011 in Computer/Math/IT, Employer Watch, Fortune 1000.

This week, CNNMoney posted a list of the Top 20 Most Profitable Companies on the Fortune 500 list. We took a closer look at the recent hiring activity of these companies.

Top 20 Most Profitable Companies – CNNMoney:

Top 20 Most Profitable Companies - CNNMoney

Source: CNNMoney

The combined hiring demand for these companies has improved 82% over its 4-year low in April 2009. These employers collectively posted more than 35,000 online job ads over the past 30 days.

Hiring Demand for the Top 20 Most Profitable Companies—4 Years:

Hiring Demand for CNNMoney's Top 20 Most Profitable Companies - 4 Years

Source: WANTED Analytics™

Individual company results vary widely, even within the industry sectors. For example, hiring demand at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs is up strongly, while JPMorgan Chase is flat and Wells Fargo is down. Among the technology giants, Microsoft, Google and Apple are up, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are flat, and Intel is down. The table below shows the top 20 companies ranked by hiring demand over the past 30 days, and the percentage change from the comparable period in 2010.

Top 20 Most Profitable Companies by Hiring Demand — Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010:

Top 20 Most Profitable Companies Ranked by Hiring Demand - Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010

Source: WANTED Analytics™

Please note that companies may post jobs under many different brand labels, and this chart does not roll up all posting activity for separately-labeled operating entities or subsidiary companies. For example, there is no prior year comparison for Wal-Mart, which posted jobs previously under a different employer label. WANTED produces the WANTED Fortune 1000 Report which does roll up hiring demand data for all company subsidiaries for each member of that list.

Who are the top 20 most profitable companies looking to hire? The table below lists the top 20 most in-demand occupations that these companies have been hiring for over the past 30 days, along with the percentage change from the same period 2010.

Top 20 Occupations by Hiring Demand — Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010:

Top 20 Most In-Demand Occupations - Top 20 Most Profitable Companies - Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010

Source: WANTED Analytics™

Hiring Demand at the Bottom of the Most Reputable Companies List

By Juli Morris on May 10, 2011 in Business/Finance, Employer Watch.

Yesterday, we took a look at the recent hiring activity of the top 10 most reputable companies in the US, as listed by last week's Harris Interactive survey. This survey asked more than 30,000 respondents questions about 60 of the most visible companies in the US. The survey results produced a list of the most reputable companies based on 20 different factors, including social responsibility, financial performance, and leadership. Today's post will focus on the bottom 10 companies on that list.

Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies in the US — Ranked by Harris Interactive Survey:

Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies - Harris Interactive Survey

Source: Harris Interactive

The bottom 10 is heavily weighted with companies from the financial sector, oil industry, and struggling auto manufacturers, and seems to show the lingering effects on reputation from the Wall Street collapse and Gulf oil spill. The combined hiring demand for these is up just 36% from its 4-year low in November 2008, while the hiring demand of the top 10 companies has gained 270% since Feb 2009.

Hiring Demand for the Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies – 4Years:

Hiring Demand for Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies - 4 Years

Source: WANTED Analytics™

Individually, the level of recent hiring demand at these companies varies enormously. The table below shows the bottom 10 companies ranked by hiring demand over the past 30 days, and the percentage change from the comparable period in 2010.

Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies by Hiring Demand — Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010:

Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies by Hiring Demand - Past 30 Days vs. Same Period 2010

Source: WANTED Analytics™

Who are the bottom 10 companies looking to hire? The table below lists the top 20 most in-demand occupations that these companies have been hiring for over the past 30 days, along with the percentage change from the same period 2010.

Top 20 Occupations by Hiring Demand — Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010:

Top 20 Most In-Demand Occupations for Bottom 10 Most Reputable Companies - Past 30 Days vs Same Period 2010

Source: WANTED Analytics

The entire Harris Interactive survey may be downloaded here with registration.

Hiring Demand Down 11% in June at Largest Financial Firms

By Juli Morris on July 21, 2009 in Business/Finance.

We reported last month that Hiring Demand at the ten major financial institutions repaying TARP funds was on the rise this Spring, with online job ads for these firms up 46 percent in May compared to February 2009, their first quarter low. These financial firms were granted permission by the Treasury in early June to begin repaying government-bailout funds received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Hiring Demand at the same ten financial firms declined 11 percent in June from its May level,  remaining 35 percent higher than the February low.

Despite recent positive news in the sector, such as robust earnings reports from JP Morgan Chase and  Goldman Sachs, as well as from firms like Bank of America and Citigroup, the sector faces continuing difficulties in the second half of 2009. Losses by regional banks on commercial real estate loans are expected to top $30 billion in 2009, and 57 have already failed this year.

Online job ads posted by J.P. Morgan Chase constitute 60 percent of the total number of new ads in June, with the largest concentration of job ads falling under the following categories: Tellers; Sales Agents, Financial Services; Financial Managers, Branch or Department; Personal Financial Advisers; Loan Officers; and Computer Specialists.

The ten financial institutions granted permission to begin repaying TARP funds are: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, U.S. Bancorp and BB&T Corp., American Express Co., Capital One Financial Corp., Bank of New York Mellon Corp., State Street Corp. and Northern Trust Corp.

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