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Our company rankings just got more interesting. Last year, we gave you the world’s Most InDemand Employers, along with sub-lists for specific countries and functions. Now we’re taking our insights down to the city level and just today at Connect in New York, we announced the Big Apple’s rankings.

So where do New Yorkers most want to work? Based on LinkedIn’s massive data set – and the actual actions of over five million professionals residing in the New York area* – here’s a snapshot of the city’s professional landscape and its most desirable employers. Did your company make the list?

As a data analytics professional at LinkedIn, I’m passionate about using data to change people’s lives. And as a former neurosurgeon, I’m passionate about saving lives too. Today I get to talk a little bit about both.

Yesterday was World Health Day, a day dedicated to raising global awareness of health issues, and promoting healthy behaviors. To celebrate, I’d like to recognize the millions of medical professionals across the globe who are tasked with the job of keeping us healthy. I know firsthand how most healthcare professionals don’t often work a typical “9-to-5” day. Viruses don’t take weekends off, which is why the job of being a doctor or nurse demands a level of dedication and training that is unique in the professional domain.

At LinkedIn, we believe Talent is a company’s greatest asset, and the single-most important driver of long-term value creation. The companies that are best able to attract, develop and retain highly skilled people today, become the successful businesses of tomorrow. We think that great people make great companies, and today we’re excited to report that some wise investment minds over at The Motley Fool agree.

Today, the Motley Fool unveiled its list of the 25 Best Companies in America for 2012, powered in part by LinkedIn data. What sets their list apart from other investment rankings is exactly what inspired us to collaborate with them on this project: an emphasis on Talent. To get a full 360-degree view of 1,700+ companies, the research team at the Motley Fool considered how well each company served its stakeholders last year: including investors, customers, employees, and the world at large. To help measure the “employee” piece, LinkedIn granted The Motley Fool behind-the-scenes access to our full set of InDemand Employer Rankings, which score the most sought-after employers based on billions of interactions between members and companies on LinkedIn.com.

Editor’s Note: At LinkedIn, our mission is to connect talent to opportunity at massive scale. Here’s a story from a Chicago-based development company on how they connected talent with opportunity through a shared love for Dr. Seuss.

Table XI is a ten-year-old digital consultancy that builds web and mobile apps in Chicago, and we’re always on the hunt for the best and brightest developers. It’s been well documented that Chicago is becoming more of a hub for tech companies—Built In Chicago reported that 193 digital technology startups launched in Chicago in 2011. The good news is that we’re in a growing industry. The bad news (for companies, anyway) is that there’s not quite enough “best and brightest” to go around. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects software development-related roles and jobs to increase at double the national average through 2020. Several years ago we could post a job position and receive many qualified responses, but the boom in the tech industry means that we’re now competing with other companies for a small number of people. The best devs can afford to be picky.