The Best Employers On The Fortune 500: Report

Does your employer serve free lunch and have bocce ball courts? Google does. Perhaps part-time workers at your company receive health insurance and stock awards. They do at Starbucks.

These are just a sprinkling of the "perks" offered by companies that scored high on Fortune's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, which was tabulated based on the results of a survey conducted in partnership with the Great Place to Work Institute.

Though the survey results were based on a variety of factors such as pay scale and hiring practices, Google's famous perks might have helped the company take the top spot on Fortune's list.

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100 Best Companies To For 2012- FORTUNE

They're hiring!

These 25 companies have at least 700 openings each, totaling more than 56,000 available jobs. What are they looking for? Here are excerpts from our conversations with their recruiters.