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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 October 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2006
Foreseen end date
29 June 2007
Description
Webhelp, a call centre company located in Caen, in the north of Paris, announced on 17 October 2006 that it will recruit 250 new employees between November 2006 and June 2007. Created in November 2005, the Webhelp Caen has experienced strong growth in its activity of data processing. The director of Webhelp Caen announced that the company will recruit young people without formal degrees and qualifications and will provide them with training. The group Webhelp, with 2,700 employees in the world, is also established in Morocco and in Romania. The number of employees in Caen is 538.
Sources
18 October 2006: Ouest France
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Webhelp, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64273, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64273.
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