62,000 new employees at McDonalds - April 30, 2011
On 19 April the fast food giant McDonald's was organized, with lots of communication, a great day for hiring new employees, announcing wanting to recruit 50,000 in the United States. This Friday, the group published the results of this: 62,000 people were detained, more than one million applications filed on that occasion. Thousands of people had also pressed the day before said signs of the chain which held such a day for the first time.
"I hope this initiative will be the beginning of the redefinition of employment at McDonald's," says vice president of human resources Danitra Barnett. The challenge for the famous fast food chain was good to improve the image of the job at McDonald's, more often associated with only a small job positions opening outlook.We are talking across the Atlantic "McJobs" to refer to jobs that paid as little challenging!
The state of the labor market in the United States, yet difficult, has also enabled the brand to attract many candidates. The unemployment rate is currently 8.8% in the U.S., its lowest level in two years, but new jobless claims are rising sharply divided during the third week of April, according to figures from the Administration.