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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
160 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 May 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
The finance and insurance company Gjensidige announced that they will recruit 160 new customer advisors during 2009. The company has 3640 employees today, the majority - 2800 - in Norway. The manager, Trond Delbekk, said to Dagens Næringsliv that instead of recruiting one person at a time, the company will advertise and recruit groupwise. The first group of 35-40 will be employed before summer. Delbekk also says that outsourcing of this activity is not an option.
Sources
25 May 2009: Dagens Næringsliv
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Gjensidige, Business expansion in Norway, factsheet number 68963, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68963.
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