Top 50 Employers on LinkedIn

Last Wednesday through Friday I had the complete pleasure of attending LinkedIn’s Talent Connect 2012 conference along with 1,200 other clients and partners of LinkedIn. Although the social media career site for professionals is only four years old, they’ve quickly become a household word and a must-have tool for many corporate and third party recruiters. I attended to help our team better understand the tools and functionality offered by LinkedIn, why and how employers use LinkedIn, and to meet face-to-face with as many of our wonderful partnership points of contact as possible. By the conclusion of the third day, I could say with conviction: mission accomplished!

One of the interesting tidbits of information at the conference was the release by LinkedIn of the world’s most sought-after, top employers based upon the interactions on LinkedIn by its 175 million global members, of which approximately 20 million are college and university students both within the U.S. and abroad. The top 50 are:

1. Google
2. Apple
3. Microsoft
4. Facebook
5. Unilever
6. General Electric
7. Pepsico
8. P&G
9. McKinsey & Company
10. The Coca-Cola Company
11. The Walt Disney Company
12. Nike
13. Salesforce.com
14. Twitter
15. Shell
16. Nestle
17. BCG
18. Ogilvy & Mather
19. Expedia
20. Accenture
21. Pfizer
22. Johnson & Johnson
23. L’Oreal
24. Adidas
25. Amazon
26. Bain & Company
27. Roche
28. Diageo
29. Burberry
30. Chevron
31. Razorfish
32. BP
33. Starbucks
34. Warner Bros.
35. Electronic Arts
36. Samsung
37. HP
38. Total
39. Netflix
40. Red Bull
41. Groupon
42. Zynga
43. ExxonMobil
44. ThoughtWorks
45. Bechtel
46. VMware
47. LVMH
48. Kraft Foods
49. Red Hat
50. Oliver Wyman