ESIC RANKED 2nd BUSINESS SCHOOL IN FOR ITS TALENT

 IN ADDITION, ESIC HAS BEEN RANKED IN 47th POSITION AMONG THE 100 SPANISH COMPANIES WITH GREATEST CAPACITY FOR ATTRACTING AND RETAINING TALENT

 ACCORDING TO THE CORPORATE REPUTATION MONITOR, ESIC IS RANKED 4TH BEST COMPANY TO WORK FOR IN SPAIN (IN THE CATEGORY OF LESS THAN 800 EMPLOYEES) AFTER MICROSOFT, DKV AND IE BUSINESS SCHOOL

According to the 11th Merco Talent Ranking, the monitor that determines the 100 best companies with most talent in Spain, ESIC is not only the second business school in the sector, ahead of EAE, IESE and ESADE, but it has been ranked 47th among the Spanish companies with greatest capacity to attract and retain talent. The monitor evaluates companies taking into consideration three key values: employment quality, employer brand and internal reputation. The monitoring of the methodology used for the elaboration of this ranking is subject to independent review by the consulting firm KPMG.

Madrid, 7 November 2016 – The ranking is headed by Inditex, and BBVA. They are followed by Telefónica, Apple, , Santander, Google, and Gas Natural in that order.

This year, Merco Talent has carried out an analysis of workers’ commitment, both with the team with which they work regularly and with the organization as a whole, focusing on the culture of commitment.

Merco Talent seeks to collect and analyze the different reputational dimensions linked to talent, including all those groups that determine the attractiveness of companies when it comes to capturing and retaining talent. Thus, the monitor has evaluated the opinion of more than 18,458 employees of the companies present in the ranking, 826 university graduates, 117 HR managers, 928 citizens, 748 alumni from business schools, 53 experts and head-hunters as well as a comparative analysis of the best management policies in the main ranked companies. These audiences assess companies with regard to three key values that influence and determine the attractiveness of companies: employment quality, employer brand and internal reputation.

The monitoring of the methodology used for the elaboration of this ranking is subject to independent review by the consulting firm KPMG.

As Merco sets out to be a global monitor, the question of which company is the best to work for is put to different audiences: workers, who are not allowed to choose their own company, the previous year’s university students, students of business schools and those who are looking for work. Thus, being included in the Merco Talent report does not depend on the companies themselves, but on the opinion given by many different audiences. The monitor distinguishes different values and variables such as employment quality, salary, professional development, motivation, brand, image and internal reputation.

ESIC is considered the 4th best company to work for in Spain within the category of less than 800 employees.

Merco Talent also offers a classification based on companies’ number of employees. Thus, Google is the best company to work for in the category of 1 to 200 employees, while Amazon leads the category of 200 to 500 employees.

Within the category of companies in the range of 500 to 800 workers, Microsoft is top, followed by DKV Health and Medical Insurance, IE Business School and ESIC. Finally, Inditex is considered as the best company to work for in the category of companies with more than 1,200 workers.

Managers and HR experts agree that key aspects to attract and retain talent are managers’ good reputation and pride at being part of the company. On the other hand, they recognize that work- life balance, equality and maintaining a good relationship with middle managers are the weakest points in Spanish companies.

MERCO Talent is a reference tool for large companies in the evaluation of their intangible assets and constitutes the first evaluation stage of the MERCO companies ranking, which establishes, in turn, the ranking of Spain’s 100 most reputable companies, in which the School is also represented.