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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2018
Foreseen end date
30 September 2018
Description
Aquitel, a call-centre group, has announced the recruitment of 120 employees for its call-centre at Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (Vienne) to provide the resources requested by its main customer, a large multinational company providing new technologies. The new employees will have to help customers solve problems they encounter while using the company's products. The new employees will be recruited on full-time permanent employment contract. The company already recruited 100 employees in 2017 for the same site.
Sources
3 May 2018: La Nouvelle république du Centre
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Aquitel, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 93966, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93966.
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