United Parcel Services offers recruits one incentive high above its many other benefits: if they perform well they can own the company - well, part of it at least.
Managers at what must rank as one of the largest private companies in the world own company shares and are eligible for a proportion of annual profits.
As a policy, UPS supports internal promotions. Even recruits beginning at the bottom of the corporate ladder have a good chance of moving on to management level.
'Before we go outside, we look to see who has the necessary skills within the company,' said regional human resources manager John Valerie.
'But, with new technology, there are occasions when we have to go outside for certain expertise.' UPS began in Seattle in the United States in 1907 with six cyclists used to deliver parcels.
The company now has 335,000 employees and operates in more than 200 countries with its own fleet of aircraft and road vehicles - the largest package distribution company in the world.