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The top 25 companies where British workers want to land a job: Amazon, JP Morgan and Sainsbury’s come out on top of LinkedIn’s 2019 rankings
US tech giant Amazon is the most sought after company to work for in the UK, new research suggests.
Global networking website LinkedIn revealed that the second-most popular in its rankings this year was financial services giant JP Morgan. It was followed by supermarket Sainsbury’s, pharmaceutical firm GSK and healthcare group Bupa.
LinkedIn analysed data to uncover the companies that are attracting the most attention from UK-based jobseekers and managing to hang on to that talent.
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In demand: Amazon, JP Morgan, Sainsbury’s, GSK and Bupa are the most in-demand firms for jobseekers within the UK, according to LinkedIn
Four areas are scrutinized, namely interest in the company, engagement with the company’s employees, job demand and employee retention levels.ADVERTISING
Amazon, which has 27,500 staff in the UK and claims to tend to the retail habits of over 90 per cent of British shoppers, came out on top. Within Amazon’s operations, the roles where the highest number of new jobs are cropping up are currently in operations, engineering and sales.
Surprisingly, Amazon does not use the brain teasers often employed in tech company interviews, claiming the tricky questions are ‘unreliable when it comes to predicting a candidate’s success’.
Top 25 companies where Britons want to work
1. Amazon
2. JP Morgan
3. Sainsbury’s
4. GSK
5. Bupa
6. JLL
7. Barclays
8. BP
9. Goldman Sachs
10. Engie
11. Shell
12. TUI
13. CBRE
14. Aviva
15. Asda
16. Johnson & Johnson
17. Associated British Foods
18. Marks & Spencer
19. Alphabet
20. Travis Perkins
21. BT
22. Centrica
23. Atkins
24. Schroders
25. GE
Doug Gurr, head of Amazon UK, said: ‘We’re delighted to be at the top of LinkedIn Top Companies 2019 list.
‘A big thank you to our 27,500 permanent employees who make Amazon an attractive and diverse place to work, by endeavouring to expand consumer choice and helping tens of thousands of small businesses across the country grow their business.
‘As we continue in our efforts to improve the customer experience, we hope that more people from all backgrounds come to build the future with us, which is why we’re excited to be at the top of LinkedIn’s Top Companies list.’
In the past, people claiming to have worked in Amazon’s UK warehouses complained about working conditions.
Behind Amazon, another US multi-national company has swooped into second place as one of the most popular for job-hunters and employees who stick around at the company once they are hired.
Finance, engineering and business development roles are the areas where JP Morgan is taking on the most new staff, according to the findings.
The financial services giant says it ploughs $10.8billion, or around £7billion, a year globally to fund a team of 50,000 technologists. That is more than Twitter and Facebook combined.
US giants may have snapped up first and second place in LinkedIn’s job-hunter rankings, but London-based supermarket Sainsbury’s has reached third place.
The supermarket, which is the second biggest in the UK behind Tesco, has over 186,000 staff in the UK and the highest number of hires are being made in the areas of sales, support and finance.
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Popular: Amazon claims it tends to the needs of over 90% of UK shoppers
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Third place: Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second biggest supermarket, came in third place in the rankings
Speaking to This is Money, a Sainsbury’s spokesperson said: ‘We’re delighted to have been ranked 3rd on LinkedIn’s Top Companies List.
‘With over 185,000 colleagues we are one of the largest employers in the UK and we are always working hard to deliver our vision to be the most inclusive retailer where people love to work and shop.’
In January last year, the supermarket announced plans to axe ‘thousands’ of management jobs as part of a shake-up of its operations and how its stores are managed.
Asda and Sainsbury’s are currently battling to persuade the UK’s competition watchdog to give them the green light to merge.
According to figures published by Kantar earlier this week, in terms of sales in the 12 weeks to 24 March, Sainsbury’s was the worst performer of all the big four supermarkets, which includes Tesco and Morrisons.