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Speaking of scaling up...RIM says looking for 3,000 recruits to meet BlackBerry demand
By MarketWatch
Last update: 5:36 a.m. EST Feb. 16, 2009
BARCELONA (AFP) -- The maker of Blackberry phone handsets, Canada's Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM.T), said Monday it was recruiting 3,000 new workers to keep pace with demand despite the global economic crisis.
"We have grown our employees base by 50% in 2008. And we're still hiring and we plan to keep hiring. We have growth in our business," co-chief executive Jim Balsillie told AFP on the sidelines of an industry event.
"We hired about 4,000 people in 2008, currently we have 3,000 open jobs. We're still hiring a lot."
The optimism at Research in Motion contrasts with other makers of handsets such as Nokia Corp (NOK) , the world's biggest, which announced 1,200 job cuts late last year.
Japanese-Swedish group Sony-Ericsson has said it plans to slash 2,000 positions.
RIM reported a 66% rise in sales in September-November last year compared with the equivalent period of 2007.
"We're still seeing a wonderful momentum in Blackberry. We shipped our 50 millionth Blackberry" two weeks ago, Balsillie added.
The world's biggest mobile phone event, Mobile World Congress, opened in Barcelona Monday, which is expected to draw 60,000 industry insiders.