Foxconn to stage 5 hiring fairs

Company seeking people in HR, software, graphics

Foxconn Technology Group said Friday it will stage five hiring fairs to recruit job candidates over the next month, beginning with an all-day session next week in Mount Pleasant.

The company, which is building a $10 billion manufacturing and research complex in the Racine County community and could employ as many as 13,000 people across Wisconsin, is already seeking people to fill jobs in areas such as human resources, software engineering, finance, accounting, graphics and interior design, construction management, and sales and marketing.

The first of the hiring fairs will be held 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 13 at 13315 Globe Drive, Mount Pleasant, a building Foxconn has leased as it prepares for eventual operations on its manufacturing campus a few miles away.

Other hiring fairs will be Oct. 21 in Racine, Oct. 24 in Green Bay, Oct. 27 in Eau Claire and Nov. 2 in Milwaukee.

Job candidates can pre-register and

submit resumes at https://fewidev.com/events/#/. Only people who are shortlisted and assigned interview times will be invited to attend the events.

Foxconn has been recruiting on the jobs website Indeed for at least a year. The site lists more than 150 different positions at Foxconn or affiliates within 25 miles of Racine, an area that includes both Mount Pleasant and downtown Milwaukee, where the company will place its North American headquarters.

The vast majority of the positions listed appear to be professional or supervisory — jobs such as finance ana- lyst, factory operation director, registered nurse, planning manager, national director of sales, national marketing director, labor law attorney and tax specialist. About 30 percent of the listings are for engineers of one kind or another.

A few of the engineers and other employees Foxconn is seeking would, ideally in the eyes of the company, speak Chinese. Job postings for at least 10 positions say the ability to speak and write Chinese is “a plus, however not essential.”

Foxconn also is looking for a director, a manager and an associate of real estate acquisitions.