Hiring / Ford joins GM

Ford Motor Co., has become the latest automaker to go on a hiring binge in the U.S..

Ford said it plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the U.S. this year – the largest increase in new salaried workers in more than a decade. The news comes on the heels of General Motor’s announcement Thursday that it would hire 1,000 high-tech workers at a new information technology centre near Atlanta.

Ford said more workers are  needed to “support the continued aggressive pace of new Ford product introductions.”

The hiring is in addition to the more than 8,100 combined hourly and salaried jobs Ford added in the U.S. in 2012, as the company increased production and expanded engineering, manufacturing and other areas to meet the growing demand for vehicles.

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Ford hiring 2,200 U.S. white-collar staff as vehicle lineup expands – Economic Times

Ford Motor Co plans to fill 2,200 white-collar positions this year in product development and other units based in the United States as the automaker expands and updates its vehicle lineup worldwide.

About 75 per cent of the jobs will be in engineering, manufacturing and information technology, Ford said in a statement on Friday, describing this as its largest increase in new salaried positions in more than a decade.

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General Motors Hiring 1,000 IT Pros In Atlanta

General Motors plans to hire up to 1,000 information technology employees at a new Atlanta-area office, part of GM CIO Randy Mott’s plan to rely on staffers instead of outsourcers for tech projects.

GM aims to add about 7,500 IT employees in all as part of its shift away from outsourcing , which GM has relied on for decades to do its IT work. That would give GM about 9,000 IT employees and 1,000 contractors. That mix is a reversal from the 90% outsourced IT formula that GM used in the past.

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