25 Companies That Are Great At Attracting Job Seekers

Hiring top talent is among the highest priorities for companies these days. It’s also incredibly competitive.

Firms that want to have their pick of personnel need to attract job seekers, and it turns out that Indeed.com — a massive job search platform that’s posted more than 20 million jobs and welcomes more than 200 million unique visitors to its site per month — has done an analysis to find out which companies are great at getting people to click on their job postings.

To do its analysis, Indeed tracked every job for every company on its platform from April through September of this year and calculated the average number of clicks they received. Then it identified the companies that received the highest number of clicks above that average for their job postings across five industry sectors: tech, media/entertainment, retailers, consumer brands and finance. The result is a look at which companies’ job postings are receiving the most attention from those perusing new job opportunities on Indeed’s site.

“These 'hot' companies could be seeing above-average traffic due to a number of factors like expansion, new products or increased marketing activity,” says Indeed senior vice president, Paul D’Arcy, as part of the release of the report. “Job seekers are motivated by a wide range of factors, which is reflected in the variety of these lists. These companies are the outliers in their respective industries, with highly attractive job postings to a larger than expected group of hopefuls.”

For a look at the firms in each sector most attractive to those perusing job opportunities, see the tables below. The percentages are the difference between the number of clicks these companies get for their postings and the number of clicks they would be expected to receive, based on averages for the types of jobs they offer.


  1. Sony Interactive Entertainment - 507%
  2. Red Hat - 187%
  3. Postmates - 133%
  4. Slack - 78%
  5. Airbnb - 73%


  1. Sony Pictures - 242%
  2. Conde Nast - 145%
  3. Nickelodeon - 105%
  4. HBO - 80%
  5. Thrillist - 76%


  1. ALDI - 124%
  2. Publix - 102%
  3. BJ’s Wholesale Club - 97%
  4. Big Lots - 80%
  5. TJ Maxx - 79%

Consumer Brands

  1. Volvo - 162%
  2. Tesla Motors - 112%
  3. Mattel, Inc. - 106%
  4. Fossil Group - 102%
  5. Bose - 99%


  1. World Bank - 99%
  2. BKD, LLP - 91%
  3. Comerica Bank - 84%
  4. Raymond James - 63%
  5. CohnReznick - 60%
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