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Top 100 Employers Issue

The Top 100 Largest Employers

This is our 37^th annual survey of the hiring plans of major national employers that recruit on college and university campuses for entry-level talent. The survey was conducted between November 1, 2011 and February 1, 2012. Survey forms were sent to past survey participants and to employers who recruit on college and university campuses. Employers were asked to estimate the number of full-time permanent position for which they are recruiting at both the bachelor’s and master’s degree levels, to give the number of campuses on which they plan to recruit, and to list the top 10 major they seek.

The results show that the top 100 employers are seeking to hire 48,407 recruit at the bachelor’s level, and 10,430 at the master’s level for a total of 58,837 opportunities. These 100 employers will make 6,586 recruiting visits.

The five largest employers are Enterprise Rent-A-Car recruiting for 8500 position, followed by Ernst & Young 5000; Air Force Civilian Services 5000; The Hertz Corporation 4,400; and Deloitte with 4199. The largest insurers are State Farm, Northwestern Mutual, Liberty Mutual, GEICO, Prudential and C N A The largest CPA firms are Ernst & Young, Deloitte and Grant Thornton. The largest government employers are Air Force Civilian Services, Naval Acquisition Career Center, U.S. State Department, the FDIC, and the Financial Management Career Program.

If you are looking for a job, do your homework first. Read the “Job Outlook for the Class of 2012,” and “Survival Skills You Need Most in Today’s World”; identify the employers who are hiring in your field; and go after them with a vengeance. The job opportunities listed in this issue are yours for the taking. Good luck.

Top 100 Largest Employers

		Bachelor's	Master's	Total	# of Campuses
1	Enterprise Rent-A-Car	8500	0	8500	800
2	Ernst & Young	3000	2000	5000	200
3	Air Force Civilian Service	4000	1000	5000	40
4	The Hertz Corporation	4300	100	4400	189
5	Deloitte	2309	1890	4199	400
6	Sodexo	3017	10	3027	32
7	City Year	2000	100	2100	500
8	Covance	1200	325	1525	15
9	Accenture	1250	100	1350	63
10	State Farm	1105	15	1120	60
11	GE	925	110	1035	45
12	Intel Corporation	300	600	900	30
13	The Sherwin-Williams Company	890	0	890	350
14	Schlumberger	700	130	830	50
15	Gwinnett County Public Schools	400	400	800	30
15	Northwestern Mutual	775	25	800	500
15	TEKsystems	800	0	800	100
18	Macy's, Inc.	753	8	761	57
19	Naval Acquisition Career Center	520	195	715	80
20	Liberty Mutual	600	100	700	80
21	Vanguard	650	30	680	25
22	Boy Scouts of America	550	102	652	30
23	Bechtel Corporation	480	125	605	24
24	U.S. Department of State	300	300	600	200
25	Grant Thornton	174	409	583	135
26	Walmart Inc	470	50	520	47
27	HNTB	150	350	500	20
28	Compass Group	400	50	450	25
29	Weyerhaeuser Company	350	50	400	23
30	Northrop Grumman Corporation	279	72	351	103
31	DuPont	325	25	350	70
32	Raytheon Company	270	60	330	80
33	Reynolds American Inc.	250	72	322	19
34	GEICO	303	0	303	85
35	Johnson Controls	150	150	300	10
35	Tyson Foods, Inc.	250	50	300	30
37	Wells Fargo	240	50	290	40
38	ConocoPhillips	214	74	288	60
39	Ashland	250	25	275	25
39	Toys"R"Us, Inc.	250	25	275	50
41	Turner Construction	250	0	250	100
41	CGI	250	0	250	50
43	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	40	200	240	15
44	Cargill	232	0	232	55
45	NetApp	125	100	225	25
45	Nestle Purina PetCare Company	200	25	225	0
47	Towers Watson	215	0	215	40
48	Harris Corporation	150	50	200	26
49	Protiviti Inc.	105	70	175	55
50	Avanade Inc.	165	0	165	24
51	Dick's Sporting Goods	159	2	161	7
52	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	160	0	160	600
53	Nielsen	115	40	155	21
54	CH2MHILL	100	50	150	16
55	Philips, North America	120	23	143	20
56	ARCADIS, Inc.	100	40	140	20
56	Garmin International	140	0	140	25
58	Cardinal Health	115	15	130	10
58	Nielsen	130	0	130	12
60	The Dannon Company, Inc.	60	60	120	50
60	National Instruments	80	40	120	35
62	CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield	100	15	115	12
63	Nokia	43	60	103	25
64	TRW Automotive	80	20	100	10
64	Prudential	90	10	100	30
66	Financial Management Career Program	75	20	95	30
67	WellPoint, Inc.	60	30	90	20
67	Navigant	85	5	90	18
67	The Principal Financial Group	90	0	90	10
70	Bell Helicopter, A Textron Company	65	20	85	15
70	Ecolab	70	15	85	30
72	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	35	45	80	30
72	CDM	40	40	80	20
72	CNA Insurance	75	5	80	20
72	Valassis	80	0	80	10
76	Duff & Phelps LLC	75	4	79	20
77	HDR	50	25	75	55
78	Woolpert, Inc.	30	40	70	8
79	Teledyne Brown Engineering	45	15	60	3
79	Mattress Firm	50	10	60	15
81	Alcatel-Lucent	30	25	55	15
81	L'Oreal USA	35	20	55	25
83	Lutron Electronics	35	15	50	25
83	General Dynamics C4 Systems	45	5	50	10
85	Dow Corning Corporation	45	3	48	24
86	Cooper Industries	35	10	45	10
87	Hess Corporation	32	11	43	24
88	Genentech	10	30	40	11
89	Goodrich Corporation	35	0	35	15
90	The Aerospace Corp.	10	20	30	12
90	Kearney & Company	25	5	30	14
90	GAF Materials Corporation	25	5	30	12
90	Newell Rubbermaid	30	0	30	15
90	Southwest Airlines	30	0	30	15
95	SWIFT	10	10	20	7
96	Telcordia Technologies	20	0	20	5
97	Michael Baker Corporation	17	0	17	10
98	Enterprise Products Company	15	0	15	6
98	Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	15	0	15	10
100	Hallmark Cards	10	0	10	12

Straight Talk from the Top

On Workplace Diversity

Collected CEO Interviews: 1988 to 2009

The following interviews are collected from a number of our past conversations with the men and women at the head of major employer organizations – corporate and public alike. Many were originally released through a series, "Straight Talk from the Top," specifically focused on executives’ plans to diversify their workplaces and the recognition of early “Diversity Trailblazers” working for those organizations.

Conducted over decades, mostly from the 1980s through 2010, the interviews sampled here, viewed together, illustrate the evolving notions and challenges of workforce diversity over time. They also provide insight into how many employers – some of them at the very top of today’s diversity recognition lists – set out proactively, strategically, to reach their diversity goals long ago.

NOTE: Some of the interviews from earlier years are scanned in their original form as PDF format files, and require the free Adobe Reader or a compatible program for viewing.