Article: Plant sees lively response to job openings [Corrected 01/15/04]

Plant sees lively response to job openings

Manufacturing firm lauds quality of county applicants

By JENNIE TUNKIEICZ jtunkieicz@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Sturtevant -- A new manufacturing company locating in the area thought it could easily take applications and conduct 10- to 15- minute interviews over the course of two days.

But BWAY Corp. was surprised to find that more than 300 people had turned out to apply for the initial 23 job openings at the aerosol can manufacturing plant.

The overwhelming response was an indicator of the demand for jobs in an area that has the highest unemployment rate in the state and an ample supply of people looking for ...

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