St. Paul Employer Included On Annual List for 7th Consecutive Year
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--May 9, 2002--Minnesota Life Insurance Company of St. Paul, MN, which has appeared on IDG`s Computerworld annual list of the Best Places to Work in IT for seven straight years, also is included in the publication`s Historical Top 100 list, issued for the first time this year. Minnesota Life ranked ninth on the Historical Top 100 list and 29th on this year`s annual list. The lists were published in the May 6 edition of the weekly newspaper for IT leaders.
''We put a great deal of effort into being the kind of company IT professionals want to work for,'' said Jean Delaney Nelson, vice president, Information Services. ''Our use of technology, training programs, high promotion rate, and balance between our professional and personal lives, all make Minnesota Life appealing to the people we recruit.''
The companies on the Historical top 100 list were identified by calculating the accumulated scores from Computerworld`s nine annual surveys. Companies were ranked by the number of times they appeared on the Best Places to Work list and their rankings for those years.
Minnesota Life also received high rankings in several subcategories on the 2002 annual Best Places to Work list:
-- Number of female managers - 3rd
-- Number of days of training - 5th
-- Number of female employees - 7th
-- IT turnover - 16th
The company`s rankings on the Computerworld list of the Best Places to Work in IT over the years are as follows:
-- 1996 - 49th
-- 1997 - 20th
-- 1998 - 50th
-- 1999 - 9th
-- 2000 - 26th
-- 2001 - 49th
-- 2002 - 29th
For information about IT employment at Minnesota Life, visit www.minnesotalife.com or call 651-665-3439.
Minnesota Life Insurance Company is one of few of insurance groups in the United States carrying ''very high'' ratings from four rating services. Minnesota Life serves over six million people with $300 billion of life insurance in force, $20 billion in assets under management and a combined national work force of 4,400 associates and representatives. Company headquarters are in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
NOTE: A photo of Jean Delaney Nelson is available electronically as a 300 dpi TIF; request it by contacting [email protected]
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