Emerson hires 40 people in its Cluj plants every month

US group Emerson, with 21bn dollar turnover, has hired 100 people from the start of the year in its Cluj-Napoca plants and is recruiting further, inclusively foremen and managers, so that around 400 people may be hired in Cluj this year. "Around 500 people work in Emerson park in Cluj-Napoca and each month we're posting between 30-40 job ads on recruitment websites. We're seeking people irrespective of skills, who should handle the activities we carry out. By May we'll bring another arm in Cluj, which will operate in the third facility we built in Tetarom park last year," stated Calin Banciu, general manager of Emerson Romania. According to the latest data available, Emerson in 2008 posted turnover worth 31.3m RON (around 8.5m euros), with the company's average number of employees standing at 238 people. Emerson, with 3 production centres in Cluj-Napoca at present and an engineering centre, is one of the biggest employers of Cluj this year, besides Genpact, ING or Nokia. The positive signals issued by the companies conducting extensive recruitment campaigns in Cluj come as the unemployment rate in February reached a peak of 8.3% at a national level.