Top 50+ Employers Recruiting on Twitter

June 18, 2009 | Posted by petereff

This list is almost as interesting for who’s NOT on it at this point.  We have Burger King, but not McDonald’s.  We have PepsiCo, but only in the UK, and Coca-Cola not at all.  We have Microsoft (sort of) but not Oracle, Sybase, Adobe, etc.  We have IBM but not Dell or HP.  We have two accounts from MTV and one for Warner Brothers but nothing for Disney, Pixar, or any of the other studios.  Intel and EMC are the only manufacturers that made the list.

None of the big pharmaceutical companies are on this list either because I couldn’t find any of them, and, even though Best Buy has thousands of jobs posted on its Website (here), they are using Twitter only for marketing, so far.  No other large retailer showed up, either.

You’ll find the U.S. Department of State is the only branch of the U.S. Federal Government or ANY U.S.A. government entity, that is recruiting on Twitter.  I very recently discovered that the city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, also recruits using Twitter.  Interesting…

Researching this list reminded me of slogging through the Fortune 500 ten years ago, looking for the large employers that were smart enough to (1) have a corporate Website with “current” content and (2) use their corporate Website for recruiting (and not hiding the job listings).  If I remember correctly, in 1999, only about 10% of them did that.  Closer to 95% do it now.  Wonder how long it will take the majority of them to adapt to Twitter for recruiting…

Food for Thought

Part of this (present vs. missing employers) is “the economy” of course, but not all of it.  Look to these employers, below, to find management that pays attention to what’s going on in the marketplace and that is smart enough to stake out their claim to the appropriate technological footprint.

The List – The Best and the Brightest?

Many companies have customer service and marketing accounts, but use for recruiting is just beginning and will probably pick up as the economy improves and Twitter becomes more popular.  More Twitter accounts will be integrated into Job-Hunt’s vast collection of resources as employers use them more. 

If you find an employer’s Twitter recruiting account that is not included, please let me know.

For now, this list is in alphabetical order within country:

	Employer	Location	Twitter Account
Global:
	KPMG	HQ in Switzerland	@KPMG
	Wipro, LTD	HQ in India	@WiproCareers
United States:
	Accenture	HQ in NYC	@Accenture_Jobs
	ACULIS, Inc.	Salt Lake City, UT	@aculis
	ADP	HQ in Roseland, NJ	@ADPCareers
	Allstate Insurance	HQ in Northbrook, IL	@AllstateCareers
	Assurant Solutions	Atlanta, GA	@AssurantCareers
	AT&T	HQ in Dallas, TX	@ATTjobs
	Burger King	US-wide	@BKCareers
	comScore	HQ in Reston, VA	@comScoreJobs
	Davita, Inc.	Lakewood, CO	@DaVitaJobs
	Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu	US HQ in NYC, NY	@JoinDeloitteUS
	Ecolab	St. Paul, MN	@Ecolab_Jobs
	EMC	Hopkinton, MA	@EMCCareers
	EMC	Hopkinton, MA	@EMCCollege
	Ernst & Young	US HQ in NYC, NY	@Ernst_and_Young
	Follett Software Co.	HQ in McHenry, IL	@FSCCareers
	Forrester Research, Inc.	Cambridge, MA	@forresterjobs
	Fullhouse Interactive	Milwaukee & Chicago	@fullhousecareer
	Hershey Company	Hershey, PA	@HersheyCompany
	Hewitt	HQ in Lincolnshire, IL	@HewittCareers
	Hyatt Hotels & Resorts	HQ in Chicago, IL	@Hyattcareers
	Hyatt San Antonio	San Antonio, TX	@HyattSanAntonio
	Intel	HQ in Santa Clara, CA	@JobsatIntel
	J.B. Hunt	HQ in Lowell, AR	@WeHaveFreight
	Kaplan Test Prep Services	NYC, NY	@KTPA_Careers
	Keller Williams Realty	HQ in Austin, TX	@KWCareers
	Kissito Post-Acute Care	Roanoke, VA	@kissitocareers
	KPMG US	US HQ in NYC, NY	@KPMGUSCareers
	Kroger	HQ in Cincinnati, OH	@KrogerWorks
	LexisNexis	HQ in NYC, NY	@LN_Recruiting
	Mattel	El Segundo, CA	@MattelRecruiter
	Mattel	El Segundo, CA	@mattelmba
	McCormick & Schmick	Portland, OR	@Careers_At_MSSR
	Microsoft	HQ in Redmond, WA	@JobsBlog (looking a bit inactive)
	MTV Networks	HQ in NYC, NY	@MTVnetworksjobs
	MTV Games	HQ in NYC, NY	@MTVGamesJobs
	Raytheon	HQ in Waltham, MA	@Raytheon_Jobs
	Razorfish	HQ in Seattle, WA	@RazorfishJobs
	Sodexo	HQ in Gaithersburg, MD	@SodexoCareers
	Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center	Fredericksburg, VA	@CareersAtSRMC
	Thomson Reuters	HQ in NYC, NY	@TRCareers
	Twitter (of course!)	San Francisco, CA	@jobs
	United Parcel Service	HQ in Atlanta, GA	@UPSjobs
	UPMC	Pittsburgh, PA	@UPMCCareers
	US Dept. of State	HQ in D.C.	@DOScareers
	Verizon	HQ in NYC, NY	@VerizonCareers
	Warner Brothers	HQ in Burbank, CA	@WBCareers
Canada:
	City of Kingston	Kingston, ON	@KingstonCareers
	Vancouver Pinnacle Marriot	Vancouver, BC	@VanMarriott
UK:
	IBM/UK		@IBMUKcareer
	KPMG		@KPMGRecruitment
	PepsiCo		@PepsiCo_UKjobs
	Royal Bank of Scotland		@JobsatRBSgroup
Australia:
	Deloitte Australia		@Green_Dot
Belgium:
	IBM/Belgium		@ibmbejobs
South Africa:
	IBM/South Africa		@IBM_CEEMEA_Jobs

Stay tuned for more lists like this, and come back as this one expands.

Good luck with your job search!

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About the author and list compiler…

Online job search expert Susan P. Joyce has been observing the online job search world and teaching online job search skills since 1995. Susan is a two-time layoff “graduate” who has worked in human resources at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm. In 1998, her company, NETability, Inc. purchased Job-Hunt.org, and Susan has been editor and publisher of Job-Hunt since then. For the latest news and updates, follow Susan on Twitter @JobHuntOrg.

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