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These 'Best Companies to Work For' for Are Hiring for More Than 110,000 JobsIntroducing Fortune's 2018 100 Best Companies to Work For List

Here are this year's top 10.

By GRACE DONNELLY February 15, 2018

Looking for a company where you can bring your dog to work, take four months of parental leave, or land a $100,000 bonus? Good news, Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For are looking for new employees to join their teams. The 2018 list includes 160,288 job openings across 100 companies.

The organizations on the list are looking to grow their workforces by more than 6% on average. From grocery stores to consulting firms, these are the companies with the most open positions:

FedEx

Courtesy of Doug Menuez/FedEx

Current job openings: 20,000

HQ: Memphis, Tennessee

Second largest location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Most common salaried job: Crew member

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Comcast NBCUniversal

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Current job openings: 12,044

HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Second largest location: New York, New York

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Delta Airlines

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Current job openings: 10,000

HQ: Atlanta, Georiga

Second largest location: Boston, Massachusetts

Most common salaried job: Frontline leader

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Nordstrom

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Current job openings: 8,235

HQ: Seattle, Washington

Second largest location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Most common salaried job: Full-line stores sales department manager

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Four Seasons Hotels

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Current job openings: 7,670

HQ: Toronto, Ontario

Second largest location: Los Angeles, California

Most common salaried job: Assistant food and beverage outlet manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “Precision is ever important,” says Michael Hirschler, director of human resources at Four Seasons Hotel Seattle. “In the Four Seasons guest service environment, attention to detail is paramount to providing an unmatched experience. There is no room for grammar or spelling errors. Messaging should be succinct and unique, not cookie cutter, or addressed to either the wrong person or location.”

Publix Super Markets

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Current job openings: 6,790

HQ: Lakeland, Florida

Second largest location: Atlanta, Georgia

Most common salaried job: Store manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “We are looking for candidates who have a servant’s heart—willing to do the tasks they’ve been hired to do—and perpetuate the Publix culture by exceeding the needs of our customers,” says manager of talent acquisition Marcy Hamrick.

Marriott International

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Current job openings: 6,182

HQ: Bethesda, Maryland

Second largest location: Washington, D.C.

Most common salaried job: Event manager

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Deloitte

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Current job openings: 4,854

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Rosslyn, Virginia

Most common salaried job: Senior consultant

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Edward Jones

Courtesy of Edward Jones

Current job openings: 3,831

HQ: St. Louis, Missouri

Second largest location: Washington, D.C.

Most common salaried job: Senior programmer analyst

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Tips from the recruiter: “Don’t come for a job—come for the career opportunity,” says Tom Curran, principal, financial advisor talent acquisition. “Come here if you want to grow and learn. We offer career-long training because our clients need an advisor who will grow because their needs will grow.”

Hilton Worldwide

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Current job openings: 3,610

HQ: Mclean, Virginia

Second largest location: Orlando, Florida

Most common salaried job: Senior sales manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “We’re very excited to be piloting many cutting edge tools to help our applicants have a better candidate experience and also reduce our time to hire,” says Sarah Smart, VP of corporate and executive recruitment. “Some of our new approaches to the recruiting process include: video interviewing to help candidates better tell their story and chatbots that give candidates the opportunity to interact with Hilton recruiting at any time of day.”

Sheetz

Courtesy of Sheetz

Current job openings: 3,483

HQ: Altoona, Pennsylvania

Second largest location: Claysburg, Pennsylvania

Most common salaried job: Store manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “At Sheetz, we have countless employees who started at a store location as a part-time employee, who now work in some of our highest positions,” the company says. “Candidates view Sheetz as a quick stop in their career—look for the opportunities to advance with us!”

PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Current job openings: 3,341

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Chicago, Illinois

Most common salaried job: Associate

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Accenture

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Current job openings: 3,300

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Chicago, Illinois

Most common salaried job: Consultant

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Tips from the recruiter: “We look for people who are comfortable with ambiguity and who embrace continuous learning,” says Kim Cleaves, managing director of North America talent acquisition. “The pace of change in business today is unprecedented. A hunger for learning is critical to staying fresh and relevant.”

American Express

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Current job openings: 3,000

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Phoenix, Arizona

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Tips from the recruiter: “Our employees join our team for the rewarding challenges and ongoing opportunities to help grow our company for the future,” the company’s recruiters say. “Candidates should be able to clearly articulate how their skills and experiences will help American Express move the business forward in the digital era. They should also demonstrate a track record for driving innovation and new ways of working that would help increase value to our shareholders and customers.”

EY

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Current job openings: 2,600

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Chicago, Illinois

Most common salaried job: Client-side manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “Qualities like an inclination toward solving complex problems, being able to analyze data for trends and opportunities, and the ability to adapt to varying circumstances are important. But the top quality we look for is grit,” says Larry Nash, U.S. recruiting leader, at Ernst & Young. “We would define grit as mental toughness and agility, coupled with resilience. As disruption and technology change the world of work so quickly, we say we are preparing professionals for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve problems we haven’t yet identified. So that grit is really an invaluable and irreplaceable quality that will help candidates to succeed as professionals of the future at EY.”

The Cheesecake Factory

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Current job openings: 2,400

HQ: Calabasas Hills, California

Most common salaried job: Restaurant manager

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USAA (United Services Automobile Association)

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Current job openings: 2,318

HQ: San Antonio, Texas

Second largest location: Phoenix, Arizona

Most common salaried job: Claims service manager

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Tips from the recruiter: “Join our talent network and follow us on social media to be informed first when opportunities arise,” says John McGarrity, executive director. “We have many applicants for opportunities we post so the sooner you are made aware of the opportunity, the sooner you can present yourself for consideration.”

Goldman Sachs

Courtesy of Dan Bigelow/Goldman Sachs

Current job openings: 2,300

HQ: New York, New York

Second largest location: Jersey City, New Jersey

Most common salaried job: Other exempt (analysts, program analysts, associates, and professional non-exempt)

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Tips from the recruiter: “Preparation is important. Take the time to learn more about financial services, our firm, and the specific division and role that you’re applying to,” says Vicki Tung, head of Goldman Sachs campus recruiting. “Being able to clearly articulate your story, experiences, and qualifications as well as why you’re interested in Goldman Sachs will go a long way in making a positive impression.”

BayCare Health System

Courtesy of Baycare Health System

Current job openings: 2,187

HQ: Clearwater, Florida

Second largest location: Tampa, Florida

Most common salaried job: Clinical pharmacist

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Tips from the recruiter: “Saying ‘I want to just want to get my foot in the door’ should always be avoided!” says Angel Brown, director of recruitment and talent acquisition. “Hiring authorities are looking for talent who would like to learn and grow in their area and are excited about future growth opportunities.”

Wegmans Food Markets

Courtesy of Rich Schaub/Wegmans

Current job openings: 2,000

HQ: Rochester, New York

Second largest location: Buffalo, New York

Most common salaried job: Store department manager

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The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real - Intelligencer ( New York Magazine )

24/2/2018

The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real

Jonathan Chait

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More than a month ago, conservatives rose up in coordinated demands to “release the memo.” The memo, supposedly, contained breathtaking evidence of corruption in the Justice Department. The agents of the Deep State had allegedly used a partisan memo to spy on the Trump campaign, hiding its provenance. Fox News and numerous Republicans insisted the memo gave President Trump all the cause he needed to fire Rod Rosenstein and rein in Robert Mueller.

Republicans managed to delay the publication of a rebuttal memo by House Democrats for several weeks. The motivation for the delay is obvious. The Democratic memo lays waste to every important accusation made by Devin Nunes. (Or, to put it more accurately, made by Trump, via Nunes.)

Did the Justice Department rely on the Christopher Steele memo in order to surveil Carter Page? No, it did not. The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation in July 2016. It received the Steele memo in September:

More importantly, when applying for permits to surveil Carter Page, the DOJ did not hide Steele’s political motivations. It made clear he was working for a candidate opposed to Trump:

Unless these claims are pure lies, they demolish the basis of the Republican complaints that dominated media coverage for weeks.

The Democratic memo has been held up because of security concerns. Whether the length of the delay is fully justified by these concerns, or whether it was designed in part to allow the Nunes memo to go unrebutted, cannot be known. But the utter bad faith of the Trump administration and its congressional protectors is suggestive.

Amusingly, the redactions to the memo are not all effective. One passage, meant to be blacked out, reveals that no fewer than four Trump-linked figures were under investigation for covert ties to Russian intelligence:

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An apparent mistake in the declassification process, footnote 7 seems to reveal what's redacted: FIVE campaign officials were under investigation as of Sept. '16, including the future National Security Advisor, MICHAEL FLYNN.

9:54 AM - Feb 25, 2018

Meanwhile, in related news, Jared Kushner’s security clearance has been held up by “substantial issues … that still needed to be investigated.” This almost certainly is related to Russia, to which Kushner has murky business ties.

So, while the evidence that the DOJ has been corrupt or even sloppy in its investigation has disintegrated, evidence for the seriousness of the investigation itself has grown progressively stronger. The president, at minimum, chose to surround himself with people deeply susceptible to Russian leverage. The Republican party has decided, for the most part, that it does not care to find out the answer.

The Conservative Political Action Conference today awarded its “Defender of Freedom” award to Devin Nunes who chairs the House Intelligence Committee. More to the point, Nunes has abandoned any pretense of overseeing the executive branch, and has thrown himself fully into the task of attacking and smearing any law enforcement function that threatens to touch the Trump administration. Nunes is Trump’s leading goon in Congress. By the standards of the conservative movement, this renders him a champion of freedom, defined as protecting Trump from any accountability before the law.

'How I joined the jihadis by mistake' - BBC News

25/2/2018

'How I joined the jihadis by mistake'

More than 300 people from Kosovo went to join Islamists fighting "holy war" in Syria and Iraq - per capita the highest number in Europe. But not all of them match the popular image of a jihadi, as Helen Nianias discovered when she met a hipsterish young man for coffee in the Kosovan capital, Pristina.

A man with a short beard, a dark pea coat and a bemused expression weaves towards me between the tables of this smart cafe. Sitting down, he looks slightly embarrassed as a tall glass of coffee topped with a huge quiff of whipped cream is put in front of him.

This is Albert Iberisha. He's 31 years old and five years ago he went to Syria to fight.

"I know it's hard to believe, but it happened," Albert says about his nine days with different extremist groups. Articulate and focused, he says his primary reason for going to Syria was to oppose the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

To misquote the film Withnail and I, Albert went to fight "by mistake", ricocheting between uncomfortable and frightening experiences. During this brief but eventful period, he says al-Nusra Front - a group once affiliated to al-Qaeda - tried to enlist him, before letting him go. Then he went to stay with a group of fellow ethnic Albanians - before finding out they were trying to join so-called Islamic State, which he didn't want to do.

Al-Nusra front fighters help a wounded man after a barrel bomb was dropped on Aleppo in November 2014

Albert says he escaped while they were busy fighting Kurds, and went to join Ahrar al-Sham, a coalition of Islamist and Salafist groups that is not classified as a terrorist organisation. He was taught how to take apart, clean and reassemble a Kalashnikov, but maintains that he never fought. After just five days, he realised life in Syria didn't match the romantic ideas he'd had of joining a revolution to liberate the oppressed.

I had imagined this opposition to Assad didn't have people with criminal backgrounds

"It would be easy for me to lie like many others have done - saying they just wanted to offer humanitarian aid," he says. "I really thought I would complete my training and be included in the battlefield right away. What I never intended to do was become a member of a terrorist group."

Having grown up in Kosovo, which was at war with Serbia for two years during Albert's childhood, taking up arms for a cause did not seem such a strange idea. The way he tells the story he was not radical, but naïve - before he got there, Albert's knowledge of Syria was mostly gleaned from online videos.

"I had imagined this opposition to Assad didn't have people with criminal backgrounds in the ranks," he says. He thought it would, in his words, "only have people of goodwill who want to help the population".

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What he found instead was brutal and petty squabbling between different Islamist factions, more harmful than helpful to Syrian civilians. After explaining to his unit commander that he had contravened a crucial rule - he hadn't asked his mother for permission - Albert was discharged from Ahrar al-Sham, and went home. He was away from Kosovo for barely two weeks. His mother didn't even know he had been to Syria.

Well, not until Albert was arrested early one morning at his family home in 2014. He has since been convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, which he is now appealing against. If the appeal fails he will go straight to jail.

Because of the number of fighters it has exported, Kosovo has been referred to as "Europe's capital of jihad". It's a tremendously sensitive subject here. When I broach it with one government official, he abruptly ends the interview, saying that the question is "all about Russian and Serbian propaganda".

Ahrar al-Sham, the group that trained Albert Iberisha to assemble a Kalashnikov, said it planted this bomb under a Syrian military outpost in Idlib province in 2014

As IS's caliphate has crumbled in the Middle East, the question is what will happen to the fighters who have started trickling back home. Kosovo's Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, has said he is willing to have the fighters back, in sharp contrast to some countries, such as the UK, which are stripping jihadists of their nationality.

When I was young, everyone thought I would go far in politics

Albert and his friend Arber have set up an organisation called the Institute for Security, Integration and Deradicalisation. They hope to dissuade people from going to fight, and try to counter the jihadist narrative on social media. They also offer help to returnees to stay on the right path, but admit they aren't sure how many of the fighters who come home will want to give up their radical ways.

As for Albert, he thinks he will be 34 by the time he gets out of prison.

"When I was young, everyone thought I would go far in politics - and my first media appearance was as a suspected terrorist," he says ruefully.

Albert was right, his story is hard to believe. Who knows what happened in Syria in 2013, but today it's hard to imagine him holding a gun, let alone fighting for an al-Qaeda affiliate, or for Islamic State.

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Trump tax reform gives Buffett $29bn boost - BBC News

Trump tax reform gives Buffett $29bn boost

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US billionaire Warren Buffet says his conglomerate has received a profit boost of $29bn (£20bn) as a result of President Donald Trump's tax reforms, he says.

Berkshire Hathaway reported a record quarterly and annual profit on Saturday.

The Republican law reform, approved in December, cut the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35%.

Mr Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, opposed the plan.

In his letter to investors, Mr Buffett said the tax cut accounted for nearly half of the firm's gain in net worth during 2017.

"A large portion of our gain did not come from anything we accomplished at Berkshire," he wrote. "Only $36 billion came from Berkshire's operations. The remaining $29 billion was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the US Tax Code."

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Non-partisan analysts had said the greatest beneficiaries of the tax package would be multinational corporations.

Last month Barclays, a British bank, predicted that Berkshire Hathaway would be a major beneficiary. It said that after an initial windfall, its earnings could continue to rise by 12% on an ongoing basis.

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Republicans have argued that the tax reform will boost economic growth.

Passing the bill through Congress was a major victory for President Trump. He called it "the largest tax cut in the history of our country" and a gift to the nation.

The reforms give the vast majority of taxpayers lower tax bills in the immediate future. However those cuts expire in 2025.

Mr Buffett, who believes in higher taxes for the rich, has said he would have preferred a different tax bill.

What does Berkshire Hathaway do?

Berkshire Hathaway has holdings in freight rail, major insurance companies, real estate, newspapers and utilities.

Its investments include Geico, the Kraft Heinz Co, Fruit of the Loom and Acme Brick Company, as well as Northern Powergrid subsidiaries, which serve about 3.9 million customers in the UK.

The firm and its subsidiaries employ more than 367,000 people globally.

Mr Buffett has led it for more than four decades, making his vast fortune.

According to Fortune magazine's ranking of world billionaires, he is worth $87bn, behind only Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, the founders of Microsoft and Amazon respectively.