Top Employers for College Grads
A tip of the hat to Amitai Givertz for bringing to my attention the BusinessWeek article entitled The Best Places to Launch a Career: The Top 50 Employers for New College Grads.
This is the first time that BusinessWeek has compiled this ranking of the largest employers of college students and recent graduates. The ranking of the biggest employers of college students and recent graduates in part reflects a beauty contest because employers with name recognition with students will tend to outperform those employers who do not have a strong brand name on-campus. But the rankings go beyond mere name recognition with students by first including feedback from directors of undergraduate career services to find out which employers were creating buzz on campus. Those organizations which had the most buzz were then asked to complete a questionnaire about pay, benefits, retention, and training programs. BusinessWeek then compared those answers with other employers in the same industries in an effort to create an apples-to-apples ranking within various industry sectors. Finally Universum Communications supplied data on the finalists.
I was happy to see that of the top 55 biggest employers of college students and recent graduates, 32 currently have jobs posted to CollegeRecruiter.com. Some of the others don't have job postings but are using our resume bank, targeted emails, banner ads, etc. The largest employers of college students and recent graduates were:
1 Walt Disney
2 Lockheed Martin
3 Deloitte & Touche
4 Goldman, Sachs
5 Enterprise Rent-A-Car
6 U.S. Department of State
7 Raytheon Company
8 General Electric
9 JPMorgan Investment Bank
10 Abbott Laboratories
11 Verizon Communications
12 Ernst & Young
13 Google Inc.
14 National Instruments
15 KPMG LLP
16 L'Oreal
17 Bain & Co.
18 Merck & Co.
19 Ameriprise Financial
20 Accenture
21 Pepsi Bottling Group
22 Lehman Brothers Inc.
23 Wells Fargo & Co.
24 UPS
25 Vanguard
26 AT&T
27 Eli Lilly and Co.
28 MTV Networks
29 Philip Morris USA
30 Ferguson Enterprises
31 BP America
32 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
33 Federated Department Stores
34 Grant Thornton
35 SunTrust Banks
36 Shell Oil
37 The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies
38 Peace Corps
39 U.S. Internal Revenue Service
40 Booz Allen Hamilton
41 U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
42 CapGemini
43 Teach for America
44 Kraft Foods
45 Northwestern Mutual
46 Southwest Airlines
47 Kohl's Department Stores
48 Comptroller of the Currency
49 Exelon
50 Progress Energy
51 U.S. Patent & Trademark
52 Protiviti
53 Navigant Consulting
54 C.H. Robinson
55 BearingPoint
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