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Flipkart, Amazon Top LinkedIn India's List of Most Preferred Employers

Flipkart, Amazon Top LinkedIn India's List of Most Preferred Employers 1k2x6s

By Abhinav Lal | Updated: 27 June 2016 14:36 IST

Highlights

LinkedIn India compiled a list of Top Attractors for the year
The companies on the list were chosen based on actions
Google, Adobe, HCL, Housing.com, and Ola made it to the top 10

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LinkedIn, the professional networking site that recently Microsoft for $26.2 billion, last week published its Top Attractors report across countries. These companies are the ones regarded as the most attractive in the industry, in of their allure for hiring and keeping the top talent. 2zz4m

Apart from India, other countries that saw country-specific reports were Australia, Brazil, , the UK, and the US. In India, several tech companies made it to the list of the Top Attractors for 2016, with the highest ranked firm arguably India's success story in the e-commerce space - recently in the news for the way it dealt with placement hires from management institutes.

Describing Flipkart, the Myntra to go app-only and roll it back when the results weren't as expected. Personal benefits and perks go side by side with a competitive environment. Flipkart was one of the first companies to offer six months of maternity leave and sabbatical options."

Next up on the list is US-based online retailer Google comes in fourth - the search giant has usually dominated the best places to work lists across the world.

Skipping the next few non-tech companies, we come to Zomato at 25.

In a blog post describing LinkedIn's methodology for picking the Top Attractors of 2016, Executive Editor said the firms on the list were chosen based on actions. "Our insights team, working with our global editorial team, analysed literally billions of actions taken by our 433+ million to come up with a blended score that we used to rank the winners in each geography."

Amongst the actions factored in the Top Attractors list, LinkedIn looked at job applications, engagement, and new hire staying power. Roth added that LinkedIn' analysis was run only run on companies with over 500 employees, and measured actions in a 12-month period ending February 2016. LinkedIn itself was excluded from the list, but since Microsoft has not yet finished acquiring the company, the Redmond giant was allowed to remain on the list.

Roth also points readers to an analysis of the LinkedIn Top Attractors data by Suzy Welch, former editor in chief of the Harvard Business Review. Amongst the lessons she derived, one was "To hire the best, you better look good on their profiles and give people rewarding responsibilities fast."

Welch highlighted several other common denominators between the Top Attractors, including adopting the trend of cutting down bureaucracy and making simpler organisational structures; creating schedules and workplaces that offer flexibility, and, offering surprising perks that go way beyond usual benefits plans.

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