Dive Brief:
- May's edition of the Poachable Top 40 Most Desired Employers looks at where highly skilled employees and passive job-seekers want to jump to.
- Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft rank as the top five, in that order.
- Among the most interesting rankings, despite the fact that 14% of Zappos workforce took a buyout from the company rather than self-managing themselves via holacracy and the resulting confusion, it appears passive job-seekers could go for a boss-less workplace, with the Amazon-owned eCommerce company debuting on the Top 40 at number 37.
Dive Insight:
"Given our data is based on what company each of our members is listing anonymously as the company they couldn't resist leaving their current job for, we believe it is the most accurate reading of desired employers for passive talent right now," says Tom Leung, Poachable's CEO & co-founder.
Leung says it's especially true in trying to accurately gauge where highly skilled STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) workers may be interested in jumping to across the country, given two-thirds of Poachable members work at technology companies or in the technology departments at non-technology companies in top hiring markets like San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, DC, Austin and Denver.
"One other interesting development to highlight this month was the increasing popularity of aerospace companies like SpaceX and Boeing, as well as the expansion of the Google employer brand to now include being the most desirable VC to work for," he says.
