Forum Post: Top Hiring Companies? Guess what? Hiring Managers Have Little to No Authority! Example included...

The complete article can be seen at this link. Below is the list and my hastily put together reply to it at apx. 60+ WPM Please, somebody, HIRE and/or TRAIN to HIRE the WILLING and ABLE! I know I am, I've always been a 'scrapper' when times get tough!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-hiring-employers-americas-biggest-142103857.html

"The Top Hiring Employers in America's Biggest Cities

Simply Hired indexes job listings across the web from job boards, newspapers, company career sites and staffing agencies. The company uses a patent-pending de-duplication algorithm and actively monitors job quality to provide a real-time snapshot of all job openings available right now.

Atlanta, Ga.

1. Home Depot: 1,180 job openings

2. WellStar Health System: 1,013 job openings

3. Northside Hospital: 759 job openings

4. Pizza Hut: 753 job openings

5. Emory University: 648 job openings

Boston, Mass.

1. Staples: 1,250 job openings

2. Massachusetts General Hospital: 1,048 job openings

3. Liberty Mutual: 829 job openings

4. Harvard University: 753 job openings

5. Kindred Healthcare: 700 job openings

Chicago, Ill.

1. Accenture: 918 job openings

2. Pizza Hut: 815 job openings

3. Sears: 696 job openings

4. HCR Manor Care: 680 job openings

5. Taco Bell: 613 job openings

Dallas - Fort. Worth, Texas

1. Texas Health Resources: 1,623 job openings

2. HCA: 1,219 job openings

3. Baylor Health Care: 979 job openings

4. Pizza Hut: 921 job openings

5. Methodist Health Systems: 704 job openings

Detroit, Mich.

1. Chrysler: 790 job openings

2. General Motors: 778 job openings

3. St. John Health System: 773 job openings

4. Taco Bell: 676 job openings

5. IBM: 514 job openings

Los Angeles, Calif.

1. Pizza Hut: 1,496 job openings

2. Staples: 1,428 job openings

3. Starbucks: 1,187 job openings

4. Taco Bell: 1,079 job openings

5. Providence Health and Services: 797 job openings

Miami – Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

1. HCA: 828 job openings

2. Miami Dade College: 478 job openings

3. IBM: 476 job openings

4. Baptist Health South Florida: 453 job openings

5. Winn-Dixie: 332 job openings

Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minn.

1. UnitedHealth Group: 2,898 job openings

2. Pizza Hut: 603 job openings

3. IBM: 521 job openings

4. Fairview Health Services: 479 job openings

5. Taco Bell: 395 job openings

New York, N.Y.

1. Staples: 2,174 job openings

2. Citigroup: 1,253 job openings

3. Accenture: 1,137 job openings

4. IBM: 969 job openings

5. Ernst & Young: 946 job openings

Philadelphia, Penn.

1. Marten Transport: 994 job openings

2. Genesis HealthCare: 928 job openings

3. Staples: 852 job openings

4. Siemens: 696 job openings

5. Bayada Nurses: 644 job openings

Portland, Ore.

1. Providence Health and Services: 580 job openings

2. Intel: 509 job openings

3. Oregon Health and Science University: 506 job openings

4. Safeway: 438 job openings

5. Gordon Trucking: 314 job openings

Raleigh – Durham, N.C.

1. WakeMed Health and Hospitals: 1,081 job openings

2. Duke University: 717 job openings

3. Pizza Hut: 374 job openings

4. Fidelity Investments: 251 job openings

5. Harris Teeter: 250 job openings

San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.

1. eBay: 1,803 job openings

2. Cisco Systems: 1,550 job openings

3. Apple: 1,388 job openings

4. Sutter Health: 1,033 job openings

5. HP: 890 job openings

Seattle – Tacoma, Wash.

1. Amazon: 1,905 job openings

2. Providence Health and Services: 924 job openings

3. University of Washington: 914 job openings

4. Starbucks: 906 job openings

5. Virginia Mason Medical Center: 788 job openings

Washington, D.C.

1. Valley Health: 3,833 job openings

2. Lockheed Martin: 3,630 job openings

3. CACI International: 1,743 job openings

4. Inova Health System: 1,628 job openings

5. ManTech International: 1,208 job openings"...

So, how does it happen that a decent, historically reliable worker, even one that has been self employed remain unemployed? Here's how: I frequently apply for ALL entry level jobs in addition to those more consistent with my skill set. I do all the right things including 'dumbing down' my resume, application, job titles and salaries (no sense in showing a job history with a max of 6 figures in it since that equals an instant 'roundfile' due to 'overqualification' for anything entry level.)

Just 2 weeks ago I struck up yet another in person conversation with a worker behind the counter of 'your friendly neighborhood entry level wage employer' and she was EAGER to encourage me to apply for a floating assistant manager position for 4 of their locations. She told me to go to the company site (which I had applied online before over 2 years ago) and so I updated my contact information and hit the 'submit' button despite there not being a position yet posted there. I then printed out my application, prepared a professional cover letter, a copy of my resume tailored to the skillsets of the type of management position needed and showed up IN PERSON the next day and spoke with the same woman who said she would be so happy to pass this along to the regional hiring manager.

Well, I've done my repetitive 'show up regularly and friendly pester' that ALWAYS landed me a job within a week or two but this DOES NOT WORK in today's economy. 'HIRE ME YESTERDAY' is not applicable and THE PERSONAL TOUCH doesn't work either and I think it has something to do with big national companies such as the type I just described needing an assistant manager disqualifying based on whatever qualifying method they are using through their main/corporate offices-YOUR LOCAL HIRING MANAGERS, IF THEY REQUIRE YOU TO APPLY ONLINE simply HAVE NO HIRING AUTHORITY!

I am only able to 'survive' thanks to being married and my husband has a small Veteran's pension while we both look to work following our displacement starting in 2008 that wiped out my company of 200+ mortgage and real estate agents and husband's work major back injury at local office of education.

PS: I'm also thinking that anyone with background in real estate, finance or mortgage banking is immediately branded with a kind of 'PARIAH STATUS' and will need to continue doing odd jobs and self employed type activities until the economy begins to remotely 'turn around.'

Good luck to everyone, especially those in worse situations than ours. We all really need and want to get back to work YESTERDAY!