Currently, more than 20 new workshops have been added, requiring more than 2,000 workers on the assembly line alone. However, the sugar factory and the brick kiln combined can only accommodate less than 600 employees.
This leaves a shortage of at least 1,500 people.
The factory has a short history and no talent pool. With such a large expansion, it has no choice but to recruit workers from the general public.
Logically speaking, given Panlong Garments' benefits and compensation, recruiting one or two thousand people from the outside world wouldn't be a big problem. However, Xiao Weiguo also has his own requirements for new employees who will join the factory in the future.
Excluding the original seven or eight hundred people from the garment factory and sugar factory, Xiao Weiguo hoped that the new batch of employees would be mainly elites.
In the future, Panlong Group will expand nationwide on a larger scale. In Xiao Weiguo's blueprint, just in the clothing category, multiple processing sites will be needed to fully meet the needs of the domestic market.
Moreover, his appetite cannot be satisfied by just the domestic market.
Once he has the necessary reputation and technical expertise, he will definitely set his sights on the international market.
Currently, China's light industry does not have any well-known brands.
What Xiao Weiguo needs to do is to gradually push Panlong Apparel into the international market, open up opportunities ahead of time, and compete with those high-end foreign brands.
He didn't believe that, with his vision that was fifty or sixty years ahead of its time, he would lose to those capitalists.
Moreover, Panlong Group will be a series of products, not just clothing. As the future world factory, China possesses certain advantages in manufacturing, both in terms of policy and inherent conditions.
Now, as the future foundation of Panlong Group, Panlong Apparel must lay a solid foundation in this first step.
This is why Xiao Weiguo emptied his coffers and devoted all his efforts to perfecting every aspect of the project in its first phase.
Therefore, he also has considerable requirements for new employees. At least in terms of quality, they must be better than the workers in ordinary factories. Their education, personal qualities, and other aspects cannot be too low.
In this way, once this group of people has grown up and he has talent at his disposal, he can launch the second step of the plan: to expand production bases and sales channels across the country.
Faced with a shortage of 1,500 frontline workers, Panlong Garment launched a large-scale recruitment drive throughout the county and even surrounding counties and cities.
The age requirement is 18 to 25 years old. Applicants must have at least a junior high school education, be in good health, and be open to both men and women. Rural youths are also welcome to apply and will receive the same treatment.
Although the requirements seem low, recruiting 1,500 people was not an easy task at the time.
In those days, going to the city to work was still a rare thing. Many young people in rural areas chose to stay at home to farm after graduating from junior high school and were not interested in working outside the city.
Another group of junior high school graduates entered vocational schools, and these people were all assigned jobs after graduation.
The fact that Panlong Garment Company recruited more than a thousand workers at once was unprecedented in the area, setting a precedent for the subsequent wave of migrant workers.
Of course, there are also sensible people, such as the young people from Xiaoweiguo's hometown, Xiaotun.
Every time Xiao Weiguo came back, he drove a big car and was dressed impeccably. Even the cigarettes he offered when they met were premium Zhonghua cigarettes.
They knew that Xiao Weiguo had really struck it rich this time. In just a few months since moving to the city, his family, which used to be the poorest in the whole village, was now living the life of the wealthy, with more money than they could spend.
Even if the villagers don't say it, who among them doesn't envy them?
Xiao Weiguo's factory is now recruiting workers, which has caught everyone's attention.
Isn't this the chance to enjoy a life of luxury with Xiao Weiguo?
If I work for him from now on, as a fellow villager, I'll at least have some face, right? If Xiao Weiguo just takes a little care of me, won't I be set for life?
As a result, ever since the news of the recruitment spread, the threshold of Xiao Weiguo's courtyard has been worn down by visitors.
People from the village, or relatives of villagers, often come to our door carrying eggs, vegetables, and other things.
Even the old Party Secretary Xiao Wenjin, despite his advanced age, shamelessly brought two bottles of wine and a large bag of fruit to Xiao Weiguo.
When Xiao Weiguo returned home for lunch, he saw Xiao Wenjin sitting on the sofa talking to his grandmother as soon as he entered the house. A neatly dressed young man was also sitting next to him.
As luck would have it, Xiao Wenjin and Grandma Liu were actually distant relatives; in fact, Grandma Liu had to call Xiao Wenjin her cousin.
Actually, this kind of kinship is nothing special in the countryside. Xiaotun is only a few miles away from Liuzhuang, and many families have been related by marriage for generations. If you really want to be serious, almost every family has relatives.
Xiao Wenjin had been a village secretary his whole life and was a quick-witted person who knew how to take advantage of others. Based on this kinship, he quickly became very friendly with the old lady, as if they were old siblings who hadn't seen each other for decades.
Upon seeing Xiao Weiguo enter, Xiao Wenjin quickly stood up.
"Weiguo, you're back! I was just talking to Liu about you. Our Xiao family's ancestral graves are emitting auspicious smoke, finally producing such a great figure as you. You've truly brought honor to our ancestors."
The old Party Secretary was a decent person and quite respected in the village, so Xiao Weiguo naturally had no reason to neglect him.
He stepped forward, helped the old Party Secretary sit down, and took out a cigarette to offer him one.
"Grandpa, please don't say that. I'm not a big shot. I just do some small business. By the way, why did you come all this way? If there's anything you need, just have someone let me know and I'll go back home."
In Shang County, in a village, according to seniority, the eldest son is the great-grandfather, the second son is the second-great-grandfather, and so on.
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