Companies hiring: Week of 6/16

Job seekers, here is our weekly list of 10 companies that are hiring now. 

Click on the company names below to learn more about the opportunities available at each company.

1. Bath FitterIndustry: Retail – home improvement
Sample job titles: Sales consultant, installer, plumber, inside sales
Location: Texas, California, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, New Mexico
2. Benihana National Corp.Industry: Restaurant
Sample job titles: General manager, restaurant manager, kitchen manager, chef, server, host, bartender
Location: Los Angeles; Dallas; Houston; Atlanta; Denver; Dulles, Va.
3. CareSouthIndustry: Home health
Sample job titles: CNA, LVN, clinical manager, care center director, director of operations
Location: Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida
4. DS Services of America, Inc.Industry: Home and office beverage delivery
Sample job titles: Customer service rep, route delivery (CDL), sales rep
Location: Nationwide
5. La-Z-BoyIndustry: Manufacturing
Sample job titles: Retail sales representative, sales associate, interior design associate, retail store manager
Location: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia
6. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLPIndustry: Legal
Sample job titles: Paralegal, CLE coordinator, billing specialist
Location: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts
7. NFI industriesIndustry: Transportation and logistics
Sample job titles: CDL class A driver, business analyst, diesel mechanic
Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
8. Santander Bank N.A.Industry: Banking
Sample job titles: Auditor, teller, personal banking representative, premier banker
Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York
9. Source Refrigeration and HVACIndustry: Commercial refrigeration services
Job titles: Refrigeration service tech, refrigeration construction journeyman, refrigeration construction apprentice
Location: Nationwide
10. ULINEIndustry: Shipping and packaging
Sample job titles: Customer service, distribution manager, director of talent acquisition, inside sales, IT, marketing, recruiting, supply chain, warehouse
Location: Nationwide

20 Great Places for New Moms to Work

Employers offering stellar maternity leave, sanity-saving perks

Business Insider

By Rachel Gillett

If you're a new mom, the bad news is that, unlike all other developed countries in the world, the US doesn't ensure any paid time off for new moms.

The good news is that some companies are stepping up their game to make up for where US policy lacks.

Companies like Google, which offers 18 weeks of paid leave to new mothers if they are the primary caregiver, are realizing that offering new parents more paid time off can be a real competitive advantage.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote last year in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that the rate at which new moms left Google fell by 50% when it increased paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 18 weeks in 2007.

"Mothers were able to take the time they needed to bond with their babies and return to their jobs feeling confident and ready," she wrote. "And it's much better for Google's bottom line — to avoid costly turnover, and to retain the valued expertise, skills and perspective of our employees who are mothers."

Ample time off is important, but other perks like on-site lactation rooms, subsidized or on-site childcare, and flexible work arrangements are an integral part of supporting new moms, too.

Based on data compiled from Working Mother's 100 Best Companies list and Fatherly's 50 Best Places to Work list, here are 20 companies that go above and beyond for new moms by providing these services and more:

Oliver Wyman

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: An inhouse program provides counsel and support to employees as they transition to new parenthood.

Bain & Co.

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: New moms can take advantage of in-office massages and manicures, sleep and stress-management sessions, and yoga.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: A free service locates someone to help complete personal tasks.

Bank of America

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: Health insurance offers a service to talk to a doctor by phone or video chat and receive diagnoses and prescriptions almost instantly.

Boston Consulting Group

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: Company fully covers medical costs for dependents, even including some typically "elective" items.

Microsoft

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 12

Additional perks: Lunch delivery, on-site personal shipping, free home grocery delivery, on-site dry cleaning and laundry services, convenience shopping, and dinners to go are among the perks that can make new moms' chore list that much shorter.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Gerrett & Dunner

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 13

Additional perks: Bonuses remain intact even though billable-hours targets are adjusted for maternity leave.

FINRA

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 13

Additional perks: FINRA offers mentoring programs and talks for new moms.

LEGO systems

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 13

Additional perks: New moms are guaranteed 26 weeks of leave, 13 of which are unpaid. Also, access to amazing toys doesn't hurt.

McKinsey & Co.

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 14

Additional perks: Every employee at McKinsey uses flextime — it's not just a policy, it's the norm.

Deloitte

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 14

Additional perks: Employees take about 40 paid days off each year.

HP

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 14

Additional perks: Employees can use HP's concierge, resource and referral service, or employee assistance program to help them accomplish personal errands.

Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC)

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 15

Additional perks: Women can join a program that lets them work just a few months each year.

Goldman Sachs

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 16

Additional perks: Childbirth classes and maternity mentoring programs are available.

Barclays

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 16

Additional perks: Barclays offers child care coaching, parenting seminars, and a dedicated families' network.

Deutsche Bank

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 18

Additional perks: Maternity coaching is available on-site.

Arnold & Porter

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 18

Additional perks: Associates can extend their leave without pay to a full year.

Facebook

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 18

Additional perks: The social network provides a $4,000 "new child benefit" for each child born or adopted and breastfeeding workshops.

Google

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 18

Additional perks: The company offers one-on-one consultations for parents and provides them with $500 for "baby bonding."

Ernst & Young LLP

Weeks of paid maternity leave: 39 weeks

Additional perks: Support groups are available for parents.      

Companies hiring in June

Check out companies looking to fill openings this month.

June is the month we celebrate dads and grads. So whether you're gearing up to join the workforce with your newly minted diploma or you're looking for a job change that will make Dad proud, take a look at these 20 companies hiring in the coming month.

1. Bath Fitter
Industry: Retail – home improvement
Sample job titles: Sales consultant, installer, plumber, inside sales
Location: Texas, California, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, New Mexico
2. Benihana National Corp.
Industry: Restaurant
Sample job titles: General manager, restaurant manager, kitchen manager, chef, server, host, bartender
Location: Los Angeles; Dallas; Houston; Atlanta; Denver; Dulles, Va.
3. CareSouth
Industry: Home health
Sample job titles: CNA, LVN, clinical manager, care center director, director of operations
Location: Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida
4. Cash America
Industry: Retail
Sample job titles: Retail sales associate, retail district leadership, retail store management
Location: Nationwide
5. DS Services of America, Inc.
Industry: Home and office beverage delivery
Sample job titles: Customer service rep, route delivery (CDL), sales rep
Location: Nationwide
6. Hal Smith Restaurant Group
Industry: Restaurant
Sample job titles: Assistant manager, kitchen manager
Location: Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.; Southlake, Texas; Scottsdale, Ariz.
7. Help at Home, Inc.
Industry: Health care
Sample job titles: RN, LPN, case manager, CNA, home health aide
Location: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
8. La-Z-Boy
Industry: Manufacturing
Sample job titles: Retail sales representative, sales associate, interior design associate, retail store manager
Location: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia
9. Mood Media
Industry: Music, hospitality, retail
Sample job titles: B2B sales, account executive, outside sales, customer service, account manager, systems support analyst
Location: Nationwide
10. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Industry: Legal
Sample job titles: Paralegal, CLE coordinator, billing specialist
Location: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts
11. NFI industries
Industry: Transportation and logistics
Sample job titles: CDL class A driver, business analyst, diesel mechanic
Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
12. Rentokil
Industry: Pest control
Sample job titles: Pest control technician, customer service representative
Location: Nationwide
13. Santander Bank N.A.
Industry: Banking
Sample job titles: Auditor, teller, personal banking representative, premier banker
Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York
14. Source Refrigeration and HVAC
Industry: Commercial refrigeration services
Job titles: Refrigeration service tech, refrigeration construction journeyman, refrigeration construction apprentice
Location: Nationwide
15. STRATTEC Security Corporation
Industry: Manufacturing
Sample job titles: Tool and die maker, quality technician, CNC set up operator, production supervisor
Location: Milwaukee, Detroit
16. STVT-AAI Education
Industry: Education
Sample job titles: Dental assisting instructor, director of nursing, practical nursing instructor, career development coach, financial aid officer, welding instructor, culinary arts instructor, admissions representative
Location: Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona
17. Thales USA
Industry: Defense, security, space, aerospace and ground transportation
Sample job titles: Software engineer, hardware engineer, test engineer, quality assurance engineer, sales engineer, product engineer, electrical engineer, network engineer
Location: California, Florida, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
18. TMX Finance
Industry: Financial services
Sample job titles: Call center rep, store manager, district manager, general manager, customer service rep, bilingual customer service rep
Location: Nationwide
19. ULINE
Industry: Shipping and packaging
Sample job titles: Customer service, distribution manager, director of talent acquisition, inside sales, IT, marketing, recruiting, supply chain, warehouse
Location: Nationwide
20. USG Corporation and L&W Supply
Industry: Construction
Sample job titles: Truck driver, operator, sales, management, warehouse engineering, finance, IT, HR, electrician, mechanic
Location: Nationwide

The 25 Jobs That Robots Are Least Likely to Take Over

Healthcare workers are in the clear...for now.

Business Insider

By Kathleen Elkins and Skye Gould

We recently published a list of jobs that robots are most likely to take over, which consisted of a surprisingly high number of white-collar occupations.

The good news is, there are also plenty of jobs that are relatively safe from robots.

NPR recently posted a guide created by researchers that predicts the chance of our jobs being automated within the next 20 years.

To make their projections, the experts scored jobs across 21 industries on nine possible traits, the four most important being: cleverness, negotiation, helping others, and squeezing into small spaces.

Those in the healthcare industry appear to be in the clear, for the time being that is.

Here are the most secure jobs, according to NPR's algorithm:

      

The 15 Best Retail Companies to Work for in America

These employers rank highly in compensation and employee satisfaction

Business Insider

By Melissa Stanger and Skye Gould

Retail is the backbone of the American economy, and all roles within the industry can lead to successful, and meaningful, careers. That's why a number of retail companies were featured on our list of the 50 best companies to work for in America.

Business Insider teamed up with employer-information website PayScale to find US companies that stand out in pay, happiness, and more. We broke out the retail companies from the list and have presented them here. Read the full methodology here.

Johnson & Johnson came in first on this list, with 76% of employees reporting both high job satisfaction and high job meaning at the company. E-commerce giant eBay followed behind.

Here are the 15 best retail companies to work for.

      

Why Companies Are Using 'Blind Auditions' to Hire Top Talent

How GapJumpers is making job searches about skills, rather than keywords

Business Insider

By Jacquelyn Smith

Anyone who suspects they've been turned down for a job due to their race, sex, age, socio-economic background, or educational pedigree knows how unfair and frustrating it is to be discriminated against for something that has nothing to do with your capabilities.

But unfortunately, hiring managers — who typically get between 85 and 124 résumés for any given entry-level job opening — do it all the time.

Three entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to remedy the problem. They developed software that allows candidates to "blind audition" for a job, meaning employers know nothing about the the job seeker's ethnicity, gender, age, or educational background when they review their application and decide whether to invite them in for an interview. Big companies like Dolby and Mozilla have already signed up.

It all started when Petar Vujosevic, 35, Kedar Iyer, 35, and Ashray Baruah, 28, met by chance in 2012. They quickly learned they had one thing in common: all three had trouble making the career moves they desired at some point in their lives because of "implicit biases associated with résumé screening," Vujosevic tells Business Insider.

At the time, Vujosevic was working as a freelance advertising strategist in Holland, Iyer was a strategist at ad agency TBWA/RAAD in Dubai, and Baruah had just quit his job as a web developer in Dubai.

Upon meeting and discussing the fact they had all been victims of biased hiring, they decided almost immediately they wanted to do something about it — "and that's how GapJumpers was born," Vujosevic explains.

"It came from our desire to make hiring more about actual skills than keywords on a résumé," Vujosevic says.

GapJumpers, which launched in June 2014, is a software platform that helps remove hiring bias through blind auditions.

"Our platform is a lot like the reality TV competition show, 'The Voice,'" Vujosevic explains. "The judges have their backs turned away from the talent, and they decide whether to proceed to the next round based on the contestant's vocal skills — not their looks, not their race, not their gender. The judges are not biased or influenced by anything other than the skills."

A blind audition in the job search context means that applicants are "first judged on their skills, not on where they studied, where they grew up, or whether they are male or female," he explains. GapJumpers asks each job seeker to anonymously solve skills-based challenges to prove they are qualified and capable of doing the job they're applying for.

The software then strips each job applicant's résumé and application of details like their name (which could reveal sex, race, and/or ethnicity), graduation year (which can give away age), college (which tells the employer what type of school you went to), and address (which could drive them to make assumptions about your socio-economic background).

The tool helps job seekers who might otherwise be overlooked, perhaps because they went to community college, or because they're a woman seeking a job in a male-dominated industry, for instance. "GapJumpers also assists companies in finding the very best, most diverse group of talent," which they might have missed out on due to unconscious bias, says Vujosevic.

Blind auditions, of course, are not a replacement for face-to-face interviews. They are simply a first step in the process, and a "better way to prepare applicants and employers for those in-person interviews," he adds. "They make the quality of skills the first impression and point of reference, instead of the résumé."

Since launching last year, he says he has seen a significant increase in awareness around the role of unconscious bias in the workplace.

For example, Google has started sharing its workforce demographics publicly. Google says, "All of our efforts, including going public with these numbers, are designed to help us recruit and develop the world's most talented and diverse people."

"More executive leaders are acknowledging and trying to address the problem than ever," says Vujosevic.

And they should.

The Washington Post's Joann Weiner reported that global companies with at least one woman on the board have higher average returns on equity, lower debt ratios, and better average growth, according to a study of more than 2,000 global companies by the Credit Suisse Research Institute.

She also highlighted a Gallup survey of American retail and hospitality businesses, which found that gender-diverse retail and hospitality companies have better financial outcomes than those dominated by one gender.

Weiner cited a Scientific American article by Katherine W. Phillips, professor and senior vice dean at Columbia Business School, saying "people work harder, are more creative, and are more diligent when they work with or around a diverse group of people."

For these reasons, and others, GapJumpers already has seven clients on board — including Dolby Labs, Sendgrid, Chegg, and Mozilla — and is currently running live pilots with another six. It has an additional eight companies on the pilot waiting list that will be allowed on the platform in the coming months.

Companies pay an annual subscription fee, which ranges from $5,000 to $40,000, for the use of the platform and for access to GapJumpers' candidate network. Some companies only pay for use of the platform to host blind auditions; others pay for both screening and sourcing.

If a company makes a hire using GapJumpers, there's no additional "success fee," which many recruiters charge.

GapJumpers is free for job seekers.

Of course, "blind auditions" aren't beneficial to everyone. Some job seekers want hiring managers to see where they went to school, for example, which could help them land interviews and jobs.

But in the big picture, GapJumpers aims to help solve one of the biggest problems with interviewing, and seems to be making progress.

Vujosevic says the company recently analyzed data from 1,200 blind auditions and learned that 54% of those who participated were women, while 46% were men. About 58% of those selected to an interview after the blind audition round were women, and 68% of those who ended up getting hired were women.

They also found that there was a 15% increase in the number of community college graduates who got to the in-person audition round by starting with a blind audition, compared to the number of community college graduates who land interviews by applying for jobs the traditional way.

"The biggest hesitation of employers, and biggest barrier, is that many companies know that improving diversity numbers takes a lot of effort, time, and commitment. And that is true," says Vujosevic. "So with GapJumpers, we try to give you a way to start improving diversity with a small, managable behavior change: instead of looking at résumés, give applicants a blind audition."      

18 high-paying non-desk jobs

Hundreds of non-desk jobs continue to grow and thrive, according to a new analysis of labor market data from CareerBuilder.

When you think about the average job, you probably picture a worker at a desk typing away at a computer all day. But if the idea of spending 40-plus hours a week in a cubicle doesn't sound like your idea of a perfect work environment, don't fret. There are careers across a variety of industries that have you up on your feet, going from one location to the next, and meeting new people every day.
And we already know that these types of jobs may provide real mental and physical benefits—workers in non-desk jobs are two times less likely to complain about their work environment and significantly less likely to report being overweight.
A new CareerBuilder/Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. study shows that these jobs don't just offer great environments and a slimmer waistline—they can offer bigger paychecks.

Where the high-paying non-desk jobs areWhile 90 percent of the 20 highest paying non-desk jobs are in health care and most require a doctoral or professional degree, many of the fast-growing non-desk jobs don't require a four-year degree and several provide a career path that leads to the middle class.
"The U.S. workforce has gradually shifted to office-based work due to the rise of the professional services economy and productivity gains associated with information technology," says Rosemary Haefner, chief human resources officer at CareerBuilder. "But some of the healthiest areas of job growth year-after-year are in middle-skill occupations that don't require workers to sit in front of computer monitors and phones for 40-hours a week."

Some of the best paying non-desk jobs, no four-year degree requiredThe analysis found that there are 170 non-desk jobs that pay $15 per hour or more on average, don't require a four-year degree for a typical entry-level position, and have grown 6 percent from 2010-2014.

Here are the top-paying non-desk occupations in various categories.

	Median hourly earnings	2010-2014 job growth
Health care occupations
1. Dental hygienist	$34.19	9%
2. Diagnostic medical sonographer	$31.93	15%
3. Occupational therapy assistant	$26.57	14%
Construction and extraction occupations
4. Elevator installer and repairer	$37.81	6%
5. Boilermaker	$27.74	6%
6. Rotary drill operator, oil and gas	$24.79	47%
Installation and maintenance occupations
7. Electrical power-line installer and repairer	$30.85	7%
8. Avionics technician*	$26.92	6%
9. Signal and track switch repairer	$26.75	11%
Architecture and engineering occupations
10. Mechanical engineering technician	$25.19	10%
11. Industrial engineering technician	$25.01	6%
12. Electro-mechanical technician	$24.68	8%
Green energy occupations
13. Wind turbine service technician	$23.79	21%
14. Solar photovoltaic installer	$19.04	22%
Miscellaneous non-desk occupations
15. Locksmith	$18.25	10%
16. Massage therapist	$17.27	17%
17. Travel guide	$16.26	7%
18. Fitness trainer and aerobics instructor	$15.88	8%