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HP China to hire over 1,000 people, biggest ever
BEIJING,05/06-
Hewlett-Packard (HP), U.S. technology giant, plans to recruit more than
1,000 workers on the Chinese mainland by the end of this year, reported
Saturday`s China Daily.
The
aggressive move, experts says, underlines that China is becoming a
source of talent for multinationals, instead of merely a manufacturing
centre and a market.
HP`s current 5,000 staff members are expected
to grow 20 percent with the recruitment that will start this month to
fill various posts, such as sales managers, technical consultants and
software engineers, Cheng-Yaw Sun, president of HP China, was quoted as
saying.About one fourth of the 1,078 vacant posts are for research and
development (R&D) staff members.And engineers, who will work for a
global BPO (business process offshore) center in Dalian, Liaoning
Province, will account for 28 percent of the new jobs.Sun said the
recruitment is the largest ever of its kind in the history of HP China
since it entered the country in 1985 as the first Sino-US high-tech
joint venture, whose mainland business jumped by 25 percent in 2005.”We
expect to maintain rapid growth this year, which will require
substantial support from more local talent,” he said.”China has become
the most important strategic market and talent pool for HP globally.”
While
recruiting more people to the China division, HP last year announced a
plan to axe 14,500 jobs globally as part of a restructuring programme
designed to save 1.9 billion U.S. dollars annually and improve
performance.
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