The Black Collegian recently released an employment research and hiring survey naming the top 100 entry level employers this year, according to an article by MSNBC.
The top 25 employers hiring for entry level positions are:
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car hiring 8,000 workers
- Walgreens hiring 4,500 workers
- Deloitte hiring 3,051 workers
- PricewaterhouseCoopers hiring 2,972 workers
- Ernst & Young, LLP hiring 2,450 workers
- KPMG LLP hiring 2,400 workers
- Lockheed Martin hiring 2,284 workers
- Kaiser Permanente hiring 1,750 workers
- City Year hiring 1,600 workers
- Northrop Grumman hiring 1,600 workers
- Target Corporation hiring 1,430 workers
- GE hiring 1,350 workers
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. hiring 1,340 workers
- Gwinnett County Public Schools - Metro Atlanta hiring 1,300 workers
- Microsoft Corporation hiring 1,250 workers
- Raytheon Company hiring 1,100 workers
- State Farm hiring 1,100 workers
- Federal Bureau of Investigation hiring 1,000 workers
- IBM hiring 1,000 workers
- U.S. Department of State hiring 1,000 workers
- Liberty Mutual hiring 940 workers
- Procter & Gamble hiring 800 workers
- Schlumberger hiring 800 workers
- The Sherwin-Williams Company hiring 800 workers
- Grant Thornton LLP hiring 750 workers
The top majors these companies are recruiting are: accounting, engineering, business, computer science, marketing, IS/IT and finance.
"For those holding college degrees, the impact of the economic downturn and recent layoffs will be partially alleviated by a continuing demand for entry-level candidates to replace retiring baby boomers," Dr. Philip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University, said in the article.
"Although some employers may have curtailed their on-campus recruiting activity or re-adjusted their entry-level hiring projections for the early part of this year, others are still planning to recruit, many through expanded online means," Gardner added.
The Black Collegian conducts a yearly survey to determine the most active recruiters for entry level jobs. Employers were asked to submit the number of projected hires from on-campus recruiting, the number of campuses they recruit on and the top majors they recruit for.
