The Fortune magazine stated that 28 Fortune 100 employers have at least 150 openings as of mid-April and this is at a time when many big companies are announcing mass layoffs.

From Indianexpress.com:

Media group Time Warner has about 480 openings posted online in creative, editorial, marketing, media, finance, accounting, graphics design, animation, new media, ad sales, film/television production division among others. Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has 150 vacancies and is hiring in several areas of its businesses such as information technology, human resources, research and development, marketing, finance and administrative. While, beverage company Coca-Cola is searching for 160 people for a variety of different functions on many levels including finance, bottling, retail operations, production and customer service, delivery and food chemistry.

It is worth noting here that the Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which is presently ranked second in latest list of Fortune 500, has thousands of job openings.

Stefan Stern

Stern is the winner of the 2010 Towers Watson award for excellence in HR journalism, and has won awards for his writing contributions from the Work Foundation and the Management Consultancies Association.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Financial Times columnist Stefan Stern has left the paper to join public relations company Edelman as director of strategy.

The award-winning journalist has been writing about business, finance and management for 17 years. His weekly column on management appeared each Tuesday in the paper’s Business Life section.

Stern is the winner of the 2010 Towers Watson award for excellence in HR journalism, and has previously won awards from the Work Foundation and the Management Consultancies Association.

Stern told industry title PR Week: “Edelman is an intellectually ambitious and brave organisation.”

Stern, the award-winning journalist, has been writing about business, finance and management for seventeen years, and is a former features editor at Management Today magazine.