What are the best companies to work for?
It’s that time of year again … Fortune Magazine has released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and Google is the new #1. What’s more, it’s their first appearance on the list at all – hot stuff!
How did Google and the other 99 companies get on this list? Here’s an excerpt from Fortune’s website:
More than 105,000 employees from 446 companies responded to a 57-question survey created by the Great Place to Work Institute in San Francisco. Two-thirds of a company’s score is based on the survey, which is sent to a minimum of 400 randomly selected employees from each company and asks about things such as attitudes toward management, job satisfaction, and camaraderie.
The remaining third of the score comes from our evaluation of each company’s responses to the institute’s Culture Audit, which includes detailed questions about demographic makeup, pay, and benefits programs, and open-ended questions about the company’s people-management philosophy, internal communications, opportunities, compensation practices, diversity programs, etc.
About 1,500 companies contacted us or were recruited to participate. (Any company that is at least seven years old with more than 1,000 U.S. employees is eligible.)
So, 1,500 could have participated, but only 446 did, and 100 were selected. Pretty good odds for getting on that final list!
But I digress. If you’re wondering what companies to approach for your next executive job opportunity, this is a great place to start. The extensive web feature includes rankings sorted by:
- Best benefits
- Job growth
- Pay
- Turnover
- States
- Bonus
- Women
- Size
- All stars
- Minorities
So whatever your job search priorities are, the Fortune list will give you plenty of food for thought.
And last, I’d like to take special note (and perhaps you should, too) of the “All Stars” category. These 18 companies have been on Fortune’s 100 Best list every single year for all ten years Fortune’s put out this list:
- A. G. Edwards
- Cisco Systems
- First Horizon National
- Four Seasons Hotels
- Goldman Sachs
- J. M. Smucker
- Marriott International
- Microsoft
- Nordstrom
- Publix Super Markets
- Recreational Equipment (REI)
- SAS Institute
- Synovus
- TDIndustries
- Timberland
- W. L. Gore & Associates
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Whole Foods Market
Congratulations to all. I have a feeling they’ll be seeing a flood of resumes soon. If yours is one of them, make sure it stands out from the crowd.
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