Article: Nortel Hires Entire Class of Tech School Students from Goodland, Kan..

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 23 -- When a Canadian company needed a large number of hard-working technically trained employees immediately, it hired an entire class of students from Goodland, Kan.

Nortel Networks Corp. offered a lucrative three-month internship to the class at Northwest Kansas Technical School.

The 39 students, who are still eight months shy of completing their degrees, are spending three months in Los Angeles installing wireless-communication equipment.

"We've seen five or six students go to one place, but this is the first time we've seen a group offer," said Amy M. Sederstrom, financial aid and placement ...

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