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CHICAGO (CBS) – After sifting through about one million applications, McDonald’s hired more than 60,000 workers nationwide, and over 1,000 in Chicagoland, in conjunction with its National Hiring Day earlier this month.
The Oak Brook-based fast food giant is hoping to recast the image of dead-end, low-paying “McJobs” as part of the hiring initiative.
The Chicago jobs include both new crew members and managers, said Nicole Curtin, McDonald’s communications manager for the Chicago area.
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The 62,000 jobs nationally exceeded the company’s goal of adding 50,000 new workers. The company said they added the 12,000 jobs because of an expected busier summer season.
With 14,000 stores in the United States, the hires equal to an average of four or five people at each location.
“We were really pleased with not just the number of applicants, but also the quality of applicants,” said Danitra Barnett, vice president of human resources for McDonald’s USA. “It left us with a great pool of candidates we can continue to draw from going forward if we need to hire more.”
Approximately 1,000 of the hires were for management positions.
17 Comments
And they keep on saying that the economy keeps getting better…
April 28, 2011 at 1:21 pm
I’m glad the McDonald’s vice president of human resources was happy with the quality of the applicants,he should be, they were probably all college graduates that lost their jobs in this recession and have yet to find work. My first job was a night manager at a McDonald’s while I was in high school. The pay was fine for a high school kid living at home,but how is anyone that needs to support themselves,let alone maybe a family going to live on whatever the current McDonald’s wages are? If a gallon of gas doesn’t quit rising,the drive thru at McDonald’s is going to be a little slow and these new hires may all be out of work once again. Who will stop this madness? Are you really happy with that change you can believe in?
April 28, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for the opportunity. We all realize that we are in economic depression. However there is light at the tunnel for those who are so negative and think that only McDonalds exist then it is all over. But life continues even when prices are going high and gas prices are getting ridiculous every single day.
Please make sure all this applicants get a job and stay there for a while because there are no jobs around yet… except if they open up factories for water run cars, electric motorcycles and solar paneled busses and trucks.
I would lovo going to work to McDonalds on a car that runs with water. So I would turn my water hose from the garden… fill up the tank and happily go to work . That would be marvelous for millions of people who are broke and do not have money to pay the morgage.
Solar panneled cars??? Wow… that too will help.
April 28, 2011 at 4:53 pm
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The nice thing about high unemployment is that you can get better employees. I prefer to have someone with a college degree making my lunch, although I would never eat at McDonalds.
May 8, 2011 at 7:44 am
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