Looking for a New Job? 10 Companies Hiring Right Now

Unemployment is way down, and demand for staff appears to be at new highs in multiple industries, for people just entering the workforce or changing jobs. Working from home is a growing option, too, as plans for return to the office continue to get pushed back and muddied by the coronavirus pandemic.

Here, in alphabetical order, are 10 major employers that job seekers -- or those just thinking about a new position -- can explore to get an idea about the sort of opportunities that these big companies, and others like them, might have for you.

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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) said in mid-2021 that it had about 950,000 employees in the U.S., which means something like one out of every 150 Americans in our nonfarming workforce is employed by the e-commerce and web services behemoth. The company’s online jobs page at last check had about 74,000 openings worldwide, with 22,709 of them in software development alone. And that doesn’t seem to include warehouse jobs through temp agencies. There’s a wide variety here. English majors take note: Recently, there were 773 openings in the category of Editorial, Writing & Content Management alone.

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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) says it has about 80,000 employees engaged in a wide range of pursuits, including design, hardware and software engineering, and customer support (13,000 workers across the U.S. alone). The company says it has 29 cities with 250 or more employees and 44 states (and the District of Columbia) with at least one Apple store. A recent check found hundreds of jobs in various roles in the retail stores alone. A massive new headquarters is nearing completion in Cupertino, California, and major campuses are underway in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas. (Apple is one major employer that has pushed its return to the office date back indefinitely, so remote work is clearly a big deal for this big employer.)

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is one of America’s largest financial services companies and a major employer, with a total staff of about 174,000 people, with some 79,000 of them engaged in what the company lists as administrative support. The big bank’s career page recently showed about 6,600 openings worldwide, including positions as an investments solutions advisor in Naples, Florida; a software engineer in Chennai, Indiana; and an HR manager in global operations at multiple locations.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) may not be the glamour name in big tech that it was of old, but Big Blue still employs about 345,000 people worldwide as a global leader in IT services and software. The company has said it expects about 80% of its workforce to be in hybrid remote work roles -- a mix of home and office -- after the pandemic ends. And it’s launched its New Collar Initiative that provides “earn while you learn” opportunities for apprenticeships and career changes into in-demand areas that include cybersecurity, cloud computing, and digital design. No degree needed.

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Kroger (NYSE: KR) is one of the Americas' largest employers, with about 465,000 people nationwide. The grocery giant has added tens of thousands of workers during the pandemic and has a heavily unionized workforce in its nearly 2,800 stores. Opportunities exist at the stores themselves, of course, as well as in manufacturing, distribution and delivery, health and wellness, technology and digital, and corporate.

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About 68,000 people work for Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB), the company formerly known as Facebook. A recent check at its careers page found 3,742 positions to be filled, including for an applied research scientist in computer vision and learning in Zurich, Switzerland; a data center network engineering spot in Ashburn, Virginia; and a mechanical subject matter expert in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has about 78,000 employees and 100 locations worldwide, including about 29,000 workers in the United States. The company makes a lot more than a COVID-19 vaccine. A recent check at the biopharma multinational showed 2,046 openings, including 656 in the U.S. in such pursuits as tumor immunology science, automated visual inspection engineering, biostatistics, and warehouse and maintenance roles.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) employs about 70,000 people worldwide, including about 10,000 at its assembly plant in California and thousands more at battery and assembly locations in New York, Nevada, China, and Gigafactory Texas, the Austin location where it eventually plans to have 20,000 workers. A recent check on its career page showed Tesla was looking for engineers in a variety of disciplines in Austin, as well as a roofer in Buffalo, New York; a charging project specialist in San Diego; and a DMV operations specialist in Columbus, Ohio.

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United Healthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) that serves one in five Americans as the nation’s largest single carrier of health insurance. It has more than 125,000 employees and, at a recent check, 7,829 openings on its careers page. It's looking for software engineers, wellness coordinators, and business development specialists -- just to name a few positions -- around the country and in such international locations as the Philippines and India. The company also says that its provides telecommuting flexibility to more than 25% of its workforce.

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) says its workforce includes 2.2 million associates around the world, including 1.6 million in the United States. The giant retailer’s employment pages include opportunities to be store leads, coaches, and managers, as well as market manager posts that start at $140,000 plus equity. That’s just for starters. There are also openings advertised in data science, cybersecurity, corporate healthcare, human resources, logistics management, and more.

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In a labor market this hot, people who want to change careers for financial advancement, job satisfaction, or both, or other reasons entirely, should find no shortage of options. It’s a tough time, of course, because of the coronavirus plague, but it’s also a great time for some consideration of what makes you smarter, happier, and richer in your work life.

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