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Strong Hybrid Sales Lead to More Hiring By Car Manufacturers March 2005Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it will take on 3,065 new employees -- including new graduates as well as mid-career and foreign workers -- in its spring 2006 hiring plans, an increase of 14 per cent on the year. This would mark the first time in 14 years that the figure exceeds 3,000.On the other hand, Nissan Motor Co. plans to reduce hiring of new college and technical college graduates to about 200 in spring 2006, for a drop of 60 per cent. Toyota will increase recruitment of college and technical college graduates by 106 to 1,000. Of the total, 200 will be for administrative staff , an increase of 27 hires. Mid-career recruitment will expand from 19 to 50. Hiring for technical positions will be increased by 79 to 800 to deal with increasing competition in the development of environmentally friendly technologies such as hybrid vehicles. The highest growth will be in the hiring of skilled assembly line workers , which will increase by 250 to 1,560. Of these, contract workers will increase by 310 to 900, a record level, in order to deal with shortages of assembly line personnel. Nissan drastically reduced hiring in the 90s due to financial difficulties, but started recruiting actively again in spring 2001 when business recovered, and has since then hired approximately 400-500 new graduates a year. But hiring has now been reduced in order to eliminate an imbalance in the composition of its work force caused by improving employee retention rates, according to Nissan. Honda plans to increase spring 2006 recruitment by 6 per cent to 920, including 635 college and technical college graduates as well as 285 high school and junior college graduates, less than one third of the peak level marked in spring 1982. SOURCE: Insurance Digest | ||
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