Top Companies That Are Hiring Right Now
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significantly negative impact on the U.S. economy, putting the country into its first recession since 2008. If you’ve lost a job or suffered a furlough, it is easy to imagine that finding a job anytime soon will be a hard task.
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But, it turns out, there are still many big companies hiring for a number of wide-ranging jobs all over the country, from Silicon Valley tech companies to pharmacies to retail jobs. Job hunting is a matter of persistence. The following gallery reveals the top 25 big companies seeking new employees across a variety of jobs.
Last updated: Jan. 25, 2021
Costco Wholesale
Costco is a membership-based wholesale corporation of retail stores.
Fortune 500 Rank: 14
Revenue (in millions): $152,703
Employees: 201,500
Headquarters: Issaquah, Washington
Live job listings: Always hiring
Open roles: Truck driver, cake decorator, payroll clerk
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Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae, The Federal National Mortgage Association, is a government-sponsored business.
Fortune 500 Rank: 24
Revenue (in millions): $120,304
Employees: 7,500
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Live job listings: 100+
Open roles: Accounting — senior associate, cloud security architect, quality assurance engineer
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Ford Motor
Ford Motor Co. is an American automaker.
Fortune 500 Rank: 12
Revenue (in millions): $155,900
Employees: 190,000
Headquarters: Dearborn, Michigan
Live job listings: 234
Open roles: Software engineer, production supervisor, cybersecurity specialist
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General Motors
General Motors is an American company that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
Fortune 500 Rank: 18
Revenue (in millions): $137,237
Employees: 164,000
Headquarters: Detroit
Live job listings: 444
Open roles: DevOps engineer, iconography lead, diagnostics architect
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McKesson
McKesson is an American company distributing pharmaceuticals and providing health information technology, medical supplies and care management tools.
Fortune 500 Rank: 8
Revenue (in millions): $214,319
Employees: 70,000
Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Live job listings: 460
Open roles: Medical writer, biomed technician, global logistics analyst
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AmerisourceBergen
AmerisourceBergan Corporation is an American drug wholesale company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 10
Revenue (in millions): $179,589
Employees: 21,500
Headquarters: Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania
Live job listings: 497
Open roles: Financial analyst, advertising manager, warehouse supervisor
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Cigna
Cigna is an American health insurance company, providing medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance.
Fortune 500 Rank: 13
Revenue (in millions): $153,566
Employees: 73,700
Headquarters: Bloomfield, Connecticut
Live job listings: 737
Open roles: MRI Tech, medical assistant, provider contracting advisor
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Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health is an American multinational healthcare company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 16
Revenue (in millions): $145,534
Employees: 49,500
Headquarters: Dublin, Ohio
Live job listings: 775
Open roles: Delivery driver, video editor, human resources manager
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Comcast
Comcast is an American telecommunications conglomerate.
Fortune 500 Rank: 28
Revenue (in millions): $108,942
Employees: 190,000
Headquarters: Philadelphia
Live job listings: 878
Open roles: Customer service representative, construction specialist, retail assistant store manager
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Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate.
Fortune 500 Rank: 20
Revenue (in millions): $131,868
Employees: 135,000
Headquarters: New York
Live job listings: 1,025
Open roles: Onboarding program manager, retail sales associate, copywriter
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Bank of America
The Bank of America Corporation is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 25
Revenue (in millions): $113,589
Employees: 208,131
Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina
Live job listings: 1,234
Open roles: Client associate, big data security analyst, campus recruiter
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Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 30
Revenue (in millions): $103,915
Employees: 259,800
Headquarters: San Francisco
Live job listings: 1,266
Open roles: Paralegal, compliance officer, assistant field support manager
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Alphabet (Google)
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate.
Fortune 500 Rank: 11
Revenue (in millions): $161,857
Employees: 118,899
Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Live job listings: 1,728
Open roles: User experience researcher, data scientist, product manager
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Anthem
Anthem, Inc., is a provider of health insurance in the United States.
Fortune 500 Rank: 29
Revenue (in millions): $104,213
Employees: 70,600
Headquarters: Indianapolis
Live job listings: 1,821
Open roles: Nurse practitioner, administrative sales coordinator, grievance/appeals rep
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AT&T
AT&T is an American multinational conglomerate holding company in telecommunications.
Fortune 500 Rank: 9
Revenue (in millions): $181,193
Employees: 247,800
Headquarters: Dallas
Live job listings: 2,868
Open roles: In-home sales expert, installation technician, customer care representative
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UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American for-profit managed healthcare company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 9
Revenue (in millions): $242,155
Employees: 325,000
Headquarters: Minnetonka, Minnesota
Live job listings: 3,151
Open roles: Benefit advocate field case manager, phlebotomist
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Apple
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 4
Revenue (in millions): $260,174
Employees: 137,000
Headquarters: Cupertino, California
Live job listings: 4,332
Open roles: Software engineer, product design engineer, vendor manager
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 21
Revenue (in millions): $125,843
Employees: 144,000
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington
Live job listings: 5,422
Open roles: Front-end UI developer, support engineer, workforce manager
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JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company.
Fortune 500 Rank: 17
Revenue (in millions): $142,422
Employees: 256,981
Headquarters: New York
Live job listings: 6,552
Open roles: Private client banker, Java software engineer, home lending specialist
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Kroger
Kroger is the United States’ largest supermarket by revenue and the second-largest general retailer.
Fortune 500 Rank: 23
Revenue (in millions): $122,286
Employees:435,000
Headquarters: Cincinnati
Live job listings: 9,097
Open roles: E-commerce clerk, coffee kiosk barista, deli department manager
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Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is an American holding company that owns Walgreens, Boots and a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing, wholesale and distribution companies.
Fortune 500 Rank: 19
Revenue (in millions): $136,866
Employees: 287,000
Headquarters: Deefield, Illinois
Live job listings: 19,579
Open roles: Pharmacy technician, customer service associate, shift lead
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Home Depot
The Home Depot, Inc., is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, supplying tools, construction products and services.
Fortune 500 Rank: 26
Revenue (in millions): $110,225
Employees: 415,700
Headquarters: Atlanta
Live job listings: 22,522
Open roles: Large equipment lead rental technician, asset protection specialist, designer-kitchen/bath
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Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming and artificial intelligence.
Fortune 500 Rank: 2
Revenue (in millions): $280,522
Employees: 789,000
Headquarters: Seattle
Live job listings: 32,201
Open roles: Delivery station liaison, fulfillment associate, business analyst
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CVS Health
CVS Pharmacy is an American retail corporation.
Fortune 500 Rank: 5
Revenue (in millions): $256,776
Employees: 290,000
Headquarters: Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Live job listings: 35,224
Open roles: Associate nurse, peer support specialist, bilingual survey representative
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Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores and grocery stores.
Fortune 500 Rank: 1
Revenue (in millions): $423,964
Employees: 22,000,000
Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas
Live job listings: 42,310
Open roles: Stocking & unloading, online order filling, and deliver, health & wellness
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Methodology: To find 25 top companies that are hiring right now, GOBankingRates visited the careers portals for each of the top 30 companies in the U.S. by revenue, according to the 2020 Fortune 500 list, and identified every company that currently has more than 100 live job listings in the U.S. For each company, GOBankingRates provided the (1) Fortune 500 rank, (2) total annual revenue, (3) total number of employees and (4) headquarters location from Fortune’s data, as well as (5) the total number of current open roles and (6) three examples of available job titles from company websites. Companies were then ranked by the number of live job listings. All information was collected on and up to date as of Jan. 14, 2021.
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