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Entry-level job site CollegeGrad.com announced yesterday the top 500 U.S. employers hiring entry-level positions for 2008. The best news: the site is claiming that entry-level employers are increasing their hiring by 11.8% this year, which bodes well for the class of ought eight. This is the largest projected increase in entry-level hiring since 2005.

The ten top companies doing the most hiring (although I excluded Americorp, Teach For America & the Peace Corps — who rank number two, six & nine, respectively — since none of these are permanent and they hire recent grads almost exclusively) are:

Employer Name Projected / 2008 Entry Level Hires

1. Enterprise Rent-A-Car / 8,500 hires
2. Walgreen Company / 5,924 hires
3. Internal Revenue Service / 5,000 hires
4. Progressive Insurance / 4,208 hires
5. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP / 3,500 hires
6. Target / 3,358 hires
7. Ernst & Young / 3,180 hires
8. PricewaterhouseCoopers / 3,117 hires
9. KPMG / 3,100 hires
10. U.S. Department of Agriculture / 3,000 hires

The list of the top 500 companies represents more than 165,000 jobs for this year’s graduates, and is available online at www.CollegeGrad.com/topemployers.

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