Flextronics is embarking on a major hiring drive to find highly motivated, flexible and innovative people
Senior executives at Flextronics say there is no secret to how the company maintains a leading position in helping household-name customers like Microsoft, Alcatel, Dell, Juniper Networks, Ericsson, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard, to design, build, ship and service award-winning electronics products.
They say it all boils down to hiring and motivating highly talented people to work in a competitive field.
The Singapore-headquartered firm foresees dramatic growth in the near term and a major hiring push is now under way to staff its network of facilities in more than 30 countries on five continents.
'We're at roughly US$16 billion in annual revenue now and we anticipate upward trends in our revenue,' said Richard Wong, who leads the firm's human resources arm.
As many as 50,000 additional employees would be hired throughout Asia. Some 5,000 to 8,000 of these would fill management jobs, Mr Wong said during a visit to the firm's R&D unit in Beijing.