Volkswagen Opens Nationwide Search To Fill Key Positions At Tennessee Plant

Volkswagen is conducting a national search to fill the most specialized of 1,000 new jobs at its Chattanooga, Tenn., plant.

The German automaker said Monday that it is using a national print and online advertising campaign to fill specialty positions, including maintenance technicians, manufacturing engineers and logistics supervisors.

Officials stress that VW seeks to hire locally as much as possible, but the more than 100 new jobs requiring specialized experience call for casting a wider net.

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chewy - 4/12/2012 7:48:24 PM

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Considering how so many of the top colleges in the world are in the US I am sure VW is not going to have any problems finding qualified employees.

BrownsGoBack - 4/12/2012 9:01:21 PM

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Only 34% of U.S. college students about to graduate with a four-year degree could show proficiency in these kinds of quantitative literacy tasks:

Quantitative Literacy: The knowledge and skills required to
perform quantitative literacy tasks, that is, to identify and
perform computations, either alone or sequentially, using
numbers embedded in printed materials. Quantitative
examples include balancing a checkbook, figuring out a
tip, completing an order form, or determining the

Fig. 2.2 on page 19 here:

http://www.air.org/files/The20Literacy20of20Americas20College20Students_final20report.pdf

BrownsGoBack - 4/12/2012 9:03:09 PM

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... or determining the amount of interest on a loan from an advertisement.