10. Teach for America
This New York City-based non-profit hires mostly recent graduates and places them in low-income school districts for two or more years. Their annual revenue of $192 millions is made up mostly of grants and contributions.
9. NASA
Any government job is seen as a score, but space exploration? No-brainer. NASA has just under 19,000 employees.
8. CIA
Applying to the CIA is not quite as simple as filling out an application. Nonetheless, with somewhere around 20,000 employees this top secret agency comes in at eight.
7. MICROSOFT
In the 1990s, people would look at Bill Gates the way they now look at Steve Jobs. Though the 90s are well over, Microsoft still is a pretty safe place to work. Currently, the Washington state-based monolith employees close 89,000 around the globe and has an annual revenue of $66.69 billion
6. FBI
No, not Female Body Inspector, those surveyed went with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Bureau is home to 35,403 employees.
5. AMAZON
Remember when you had to run around to a bunch of stores to buy books, music and lawn equipment? Neither do I. This ever-growing company employees 33,700 and brings in an annual revenue of $34.20 billion.
4. U.S. Department of State
Have you had always wanted to work for Hillary Clinton? Hook up with the Department of State and you can! Its chief function being responsible international relations, the Department of State has 22,000 employees, including diplomats.
3. The Walt Disney Company
The largest media and entertainment company in the world, you too can work for the mouse. Disney employs 144,000 and in 2010 raked in $39.04 billion.
2. APPLE
In the 1990s, people would look at Steve Jobs the way they look at Bill Gates today. Now, with the iPhone, iPad and all things i, Apple is at the forefront of personal technology. In 2010 alone, the company earned $76.28 billion.
1. GOOGLE
Being the only company on the list that also serves as a verb, it should come as no surprise that Google is the top place young professionals want to work at. Worldwide, the search engine has 24,400 employees and in 2010 alone earned $29.32 billion in revenue.
Excerpted from a post by elearners.com
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I smell some serious bias in the responses here. Namely, government bias.
While the attraction of "service" will always be there for graduates and young people, I can't say that ANYONE I know was genuinely interested in working in government as a career start. True, NASA is pretty cool, but even my engineering classmates saw the writing on the wall, and realised we'd sooner be astronauts working for private companies, rather than NASA.
Most of the companies on this list are big, bulky corporations. They're very safe. They offer good benefits. Chances are, they won't fold overnight and leave you out in the cold. But with the exception of Apple and Google, I don't think anyone will call them "fun" places to work.
These days, young workers are much more entrepreneurial in their desires. Benefits and that still attract, but so does the ability to wear sneakers and jeans to work, or telecommute, or attend SXSW on your employers' dime. I can hardly say The State Department is encouraging every new hire to customise his work station, for example.
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