Top five companies hiring in Philadelphia region

Not Comcast, Vanguard or Blue Cross: The top 5 companies advertising for staff in the Philadelphia region this month, according to a report by SimplyHired.com, include:

1) Johnson & Johnson - drugmaker and medical-device developer in Princeton, N.J. and suburban Philadelphia
2) JPMorgan Chase & Co. - its credit card business is based in Wilmington, Del.
3) PNC Financial Services Group - with offices across Philadelphia and its suburbs
4) Penn Medicine - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and affiliates; top private employer in Phila. city
5) Bayada Home Health Care - all over the region

Philadelphia companies listed more than 109,000 open positions, up 2.16% since August (slower growth than New York, Boston or Chicago; faster than Houston, Atlanta, Washington DC or Los Angeles). The Philadelphia region is the fourth-largest U.S. employment center as measured by Nielsen Designated Market Areas, which for Philadelphia include the Septa and Patco counties, plus the Allentown, Reading, Atlantic City, Vineland, and Dover, Del. areas, along with Wilmington and Princeton.

Simply Hired, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. and backed by venture investors Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures, says it "operates job search engines in 24 countries" with partners including the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Fox Business and others.

Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, backed by venture investors Foundation  Capital and IDG Ventures, says it "operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email, and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg Businessweek, Computerworld, and International Nurses Association. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2004 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com.