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Flextronics Hungary has trouble finding staff

The EMS-provider Flextronics has apparently trouble in finding enough employees for its operations in Hungary. It has proven rather difficult to fill vacant positions.

December 10 2009, 10:07 AM
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EMSCFO Márk Hetényi explained that only 249 people - out of 1400 registered unemployed from the area that were invited - actually bothered to turn up for an interview, writes the Budapest Times. The majority of those however, handed in blank questionnaires. This indicates that most were actually not even interested in working for the Singapore-based EMS-giant. In the end, the company was able to offer a job to 50 of the applicants.

Anke Schröter
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8. comment no 7
December 21, 2009
07:42
Obviously that comment was written by Flextronics PR rep. It still does not change the fact that Flextronics is a ruthless HIRE and FIRE company

7. EMS companies provide se...
December 18, 2009
15:27
EMS companies provide services for other companies, therefore when there is decline in end market conditions, it is unfortunate circumstance that they may require to downsize head-count. Unlike OEM's who sell products, it is not always possible to retain key staff or skills during the down-turn, the lower margins simply do not allow the absorption of such costs. The EMS model was created to provide the OEM's with "flexible" and variable cost model versus fixed costs. This means that when business is good, there will be more jobs created, but when business is lower, then sadly jobs have to be cut. The same principles apply across all service industries, not just EMS

6. Comming from Romania
December 18, 2009
11:27
Earlier this year we were head hunted from Romania for labour jobs at Flextronics Sarvar, they made sure we got to the job with good transport and accomodation conditions, then when the crisis hit they gave us 24 hours notice and didnt even care how we got back to Romania, they just pushed the blame onto employement agencies to exonorate themselves, I will never work for this company again, they just use and abuse people

5. What do you mean re-employ
December 16, 2009
07:17
I was laid off by Flextronics at the beginning of this year, they know how to contact me and even when I applied for positions advertised by them they never even had the decency to acknowledge my application or contact me, so how can they say there is a shortage

4. Hire and fire reputation
December 16, 2009
07:16
Flextronics Hungary has a reputation of being a hire and fire company. When they had an excellent skills set, what did they do when the economic crisis hit? They cut all the so called non essential staff instead of investing in the aquired skills and riding out the crisis and looking after them. They could well afford it as the corporation had in excess od $1 billion in the bank, cash!!!!. So in essence why would anyone want to rejoin such a ruthless company and be screwed a second or third time

3. they laid off 1400 back ...
December 11, 2009
11:17
they laid off 1400 back in feb/mar this year, people have good memory

2. Not stabil working place
December 11, 2009
07:53
It shows how stabil is your job in any EMS provider. No matter in which field you are (eg office, production, engineer, warehouse, finance, HR... etc).
2nd once you fire people you cannot hire them for a time period - this is the law!!! Since 2000 - we can see the number of people who has been resigned and then to fulfill again the manpower :( Brrrrrr.

A
1. It shows how bad the off...
December 10, 2009
17:10
It shows how bad the offers must have been if they were not interested in employment.

paul

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