Stories about cool companies in the Chicago area.
Recruitment marketing is the art of attracting top talent to your company using a healthy employer brand. It’s all about treating potential talent as customers. This requires a recruitment marketing team that knows where to look for and how to entice top talent who often have a spread of interested companies to choose from. It’s the place … Read full-story
Employer brand is an area where every modern company needs to shine. This means that those companies need someone keeping the employer brand humming, someone who knows how to broker the happiest and most mutually beneficial outcomes between the companies they work for and the employees they depend on. In that spirit, here are 21 … Read full-story
Employer brand is an area where every modern company needs to shine. The way the hiring pipeline functions these days, top talent truly can expect to be treated like a customer as they window shop for their next position. This in turn has put the heat on companies to improve EVP and decorate their nests in … Read full-story
Gen Z, born between the mid-to-late 90s and the early 2010s, are soon to be the largest generation on earth, constituting a quarter of the U.S. population. They’re incredibly diverse, and they demand the same from their employees. They eat, sleep, and breath technology. Every industry in the nation and the world will depend on … Read full-story
Gen Z. They have high-tech minds. They expect a healthy work-life balance. They require a lot of feedback. They want to start their own businesses. They’re excellent multitaskers. Soon, they’ll surpass Millennials as the Earth’s most populous generation. And constituting a quarter of the US population, they’re the most diverse generation in the nation’s history. … Read full-story
Summer internship season is almost upon us, and companies all across the US are currently accepting applications from college students and the like who are are eager to start their careers in the industries that hold the most fascination for them. Here are 8 exciting companies in the Chicago area that are accepting applications for … Read full-story
In honor of March 8’s International Woman’s Day, Comparably looked to highlight some of the businesses around the U.S. with females in the role of Chief Executive Officer. While there is still a major imbalance in terms of gender parity – last year’s Fortune 500 included just 6.6% women – here are a selection of … Read full-story
In honor of March 8’s International Woman’s Day, Comparably looked to highlight some of the businesses around the U.S. with females in the role of Chief Executive Officer. While there is still a major imbalance in terms of gender parity – last year’s Fortune 500 included just 6.6% women – here are a selection of information … Read full-story
Marketing roles are integral at any company that sells a product or service. And working in a company’s marketing department gives you deep business experience that can easily translate to business management or an advertising career down the line during your career. Technology has greatly varied the opportunities in the already wide-open field, and Bureau … Read full-story
Sales roles never go out of fashion, because they are consistently critical to building and maintaining any business’ customer base. 36% of U.S. companies say they’re planning to increase their hiring for sales roles. And the role of sales rep, in particular, was rated 5th Happiest Job in America by Business Insider. It’s a challenging … Read full-story
No matter how dedicated we are to our jobs and our company’s mission, at the end of the day our salaries are inarguably an important factor when it comes to where we choose to work and how happy we are there. The promise of a more substantial paycheck elsewhere is always a threat to retention … Read full-story
No matter how dedicated we are to our jobs and our company’s mission, at the end of the day our salaries are inarguably an important factor when it comes to where we choose to work and how happy we are there. The promise of a more substantial paycheck elsewhere is always a threat to retention … Read full-story
How do we decide whether we like the companies we work for? A company has to have great leadership, a strong mission, and produce a worthy product or service to make most of us feel like we’re part of something worthwhile. Beyond that, we all have things we want personally from a company: a solid … Read full-story
While no two companies share the same goal, the best companies all share one important trait: They are all driven by a strong mission and purpose. A company’s mission guides them through everything from the day to day nitty-gritty to the long term road mapping. So it’s easy to understand why having a company unifying mission every team member believes … Read full-story
What makes for a great Chief Executive Officer? The best CEOs are noble public faces for their company’s successes and failures, captains of industry, accessible to all employees within reason, and just as concerned with their workers’ lives as they are with the bottom line. They have to balance shareholder demands while still running their … Read full-story
What makes for a great Chief Executive Officer? The best CEOs are noble public faces for their company’s successes and failures, captains of industry, accessible to all employees within reason, and just as concerned with their workers’ lives as they are with the bottom line. They have to balance shareholder demands while still running their … Read full-story
Sitting on Lake Michigan in Illinois, Chicago is among the largest cities in the country, famed for its bold architecture, museums, deep dish pizza, and of course… da Bears. These seven tech companies in the Chicago area have been making waves with their products and practices, and most are currently hiring! If you’ve ever thought about relocating to the … Read full-story
Sitting on Lake Michigan in Illinois, Chicago is among the largest cities in the country, famed for its bold architecture, museums, deep dish pizza, and of course… da Bears. These 10 startups are all coming up fast, powered by great ideas and business models. And the good news is that they’re currently hiring! For anyone … Read full-story
When did we cross over into the future? Mankind has always had cutting-edge thinkers – like Tesla and Edison and Jules Verne – who could perceive of spectacular things to come, but at some point over the last few decades we seem to have fully passed through the looking glass into a world of cloud … Read full-story
The big data industry analyzes and extracts information from data sets that are either too enormous or too complex for traditional data-processing software to handle. This in-demand industry is expected to grow to a global market worth $40.6 billion by 2023. For those looking to work in the big data industry, these 25 companies from across … Read full-story
Sitting on Lake Michigan in Illinois, Chicago is among the largest cities in the country, famed for its bold architecture, museums, deep dish pizza, and of course… da Bears. These eight businesses in the Chicago area each recently closed funding rounds that grew the companies by 50 million dollars or more – which means they’re … Read full-story
Here are companies in 9 of the most consistently exciting U.S cities that Millennial employees rated highly on Comparably. Millennials, now the country’s dominant workforce, have their own standards for the kinds of jobs they like to dedicate themselves to: they prefer companies with a sincere social mission, benefits that match their values, and flexibility. Take a … Read full-story
Sitting on Lake Michigan in Illinois, Chicago is among the largest cities in the country, famed for its bold architecture, museums, deep dish pizza, and of course… da Bears. Millennial employees of these nine Chicago–area businesses rated their companies highly on Comparably, saying these workplaces offer the things they find most important from a job: … Read full-story
What makes for an enjoyable, positive workplace experience? Having a good friend there with you, not wasting time being bored, or a nice view? These 10 companies in the Chicago area have great environments, according to anonymous employee ratings on Comparably. Gallagher provides a full range of retail and wholesale property/casualty brokerage and alternative risk transfer … Read full-story
Here are companies in 16 of the most well known, buzzy cities in the U.S. that stand out as having great work place environments, as rated by their own employees on Comparably. Take a look at the lists below and see the real employee testimonials and scores that made these companies stand out. New York: … Read full-story