Four of the top five most desirable places to work in LinkedIn’s new survey are in the tech industry. And the fifth? Well, it’s a maker of ice cream.
LinkedIn released its ranking of the Most InDemand Employers, a list led by Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The fifth company on the list, Unilever, is the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream among other hundreds of other consumer products. Amazon.com ranked 25th, while Starbucks ranked 33rd and Electronic Arts (the parent company of PopCap) ranked 35th. About 20 percent of the companies on the list are considered tech.
That’s not a huge surprise. After all, earlier this week we reported on a new study from PayScale which showed that the tech industry is the third fastest growing industry for wages (behind mining and utilities).
Here’s more from LinkedIn’s Michael Li:
What makes these rankings so unique—and exciting to me as a professional data scientist—is that they’re based on the actual actions of over 175 million professionals on LinkedIn. Last year, LinkedIn was home to over 15 billion interactions between professionals and companies. We cross-referenced our data with thousands of survey responses to pinpoint the specific activities that best indicate familiarity and interest in working for a company: connecting with employees, viewing employee profiles, visiting Company and Career Pages, and following companies. After crunching this data and normalizing for things like company size, we developed our top 100 global list. We then applied LinkedIn profile data to rank the most sought-after employers among professionals in five countries and four job functions.
