General Electric reaches application quota in first hour
28.09.11
Already has reached the utmost number of applications it set for the 480 positions it is adding at
Appliance Store in Louisville. And it took less than an hour.
The company’s GE Appliances & Lighting item has stopped accepting applications because it already has received 6,000.
As Business First reported last week , the jobs are being added to deliver new product launches, such as the previously announced hybrid be unfeasible heater and bottom-freezer refrigerators. Applications for the position, which pay $13 per hour additional benefits, were accepted online only.
GE officials had said they would suffer applications through Friday or until the company received the maximum handful of applications.
Kim Freeman , a spokeswoman for GE Appliances & Lighting, said applicants will be kept in a wading pool of potential workers for the next year and will be notified as the process moves into the open.
Some workers will begin as early as February, she said.
Not all the new workers will drudgery on the new product lines. Some new hires will backfill jobs or make good on workers who are transferred to the new product lines, she said.
Source: Bizjournals.com
GE to accept 6000 applications for 480 jobs
23.09.11
Will in taking applications next week for 480 positions that on the double will be added at Louisville’s
Appliance Park.
The new jobs will be added to assemble new product launches, such as the previously announced hybrid soften heater and bottom-freezer refrigerators.
GE Appliances has about 2,000 hourly workers in Louisville.
According to an e-post from GE spokeswoman Kim Freeman, the company will accept 6,000 applications for the setting jobs. Applications for the position, which pay $13 per hour with the addition of benefits, will be accepted online only, between Sept. 28 and Sept. 30 or until the firm receives 6,000 applications.
No paper applications will be accepted, she said.
As Issue First previously reported, GE has said it plans to add hundreds of jobs at Appliance Car park.
The company has said it would add about 400 jobs to produce a new route of energy-efficient, hybrid water heaters .
It also plans to prove in Louisville a U.S. Center of Excellence for Design and Manufacture of bottom-freezer refrigerators . That enterprise would add about 300 jobs.
Source: Louisville Business First