What are the Early Talent Awards (ETAs)?
Handshake’s second-annual Early Talent Awards (ETAs) recognize a short list of employers for top-notch talent engagement and celebrate their dedication to expanding access to opportunity. To determine this year’s winners, Handshake reviewed the platform activity of over 550,000 partners against four indicators of a successful early talent program:
- Gen Z brand resonance
- Engagement
- Event participation
- Relationships
What does this mean for my career center?
We encourage you to explore the winners below, congratulate your employer partners who made the list, and keep them in mind as you plan events and recruitment opportunities during the upcoming academic year. This year’s roster covers more industries and areas of interest than before, and we now have a handful of employers who have been selected two years in a row, which makes the roster a great resource for those guiding students on their job and internship search.
Accounting
Architecture, Real Estate, & Construction
- Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
- Black & Veatch
- JLL
- Granite
- Thornton Tomasetti
- Burns & McDonnell
- Kiewit
- Dominium
- Clark Construction Group
- Cargill
Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation
- NBCUniversal
- WarnerMedia
- The Walt Disney Company
- Royal Caribbean Group
- Hilton
- Sony Music
- Camp Micah
- Compass Group USA
- AMC Networks
- CEC Entertainment
Banking & Financial Services
- Goldman Sachs
- Visa
- Bank of America
- TD Bank
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- PNC Financial Services
- Societe Generale
- American Express
- KeyBank
- Deutsche Bank
Government
- L3Harris Technologies
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- BAE Systems
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- National Security Agency
- Maximus
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- United States Air Force
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Naval Nuclear Laboratory
Energy, Oil, & Gas
- Chevron
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Schneider Electric
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Schlumberger
- Clean Harbors
- ERM
- The AES Corporation
- Baker Hughes Company
- Phillips 66
Education & Nonprofit
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- MITRE Corporation
- Tech Talent South
- Juni Learning
- iD Tech
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
- humanID
- Easterseals Southern California
- Uncommon Schools
- Peace Corps
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
- Stryker
- Merck
- Medtronic
- Robin Healthcare
- Health Advocate
- Regeneron
- Pfizer
- Eli Lilly and Company
- CVS Health
- UnitedHealth Group
Insurance
- New York Life Insurance Company
- Willis Towers Watson
- Aon
- Allstate
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Nationwide
- Progressive Insurance
- Goosehead Insurance Agency
- Travelers
- AFLAC
- Modern Woodmen of America
- USAA
Manufacturing
- Honeywell
- 3M
- General Motors
- Raytheon Technologies
- Cummins Inc.
- Whirlpool Corporation
- Textron
- GE
- Ford Motor Company
Professional Services
- Accenture
- Deloitte
- FTI Consulting
- CGI
- Boston Consulting Group
- Hudson River Trading
- AlphaSights
- Protiviti
- Oliver Wyman
- Cintas
Retail, CPG, & Food
Software & Technology
Transportation & Logistics
- Waymo
- Schneider
- DHL Supply Chain
- Echo Global Logistics
- Avis Budget Group
- DHL Express
- Total Quality Logistics
- FedEx
- Enterprise Holdings
- UPS