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Foxconn, a major assembler of Apple’s iPhone, is accelerating hiring of fresh graduates from college in China ahead of the launch of the iPhone 14.
The number of fresh college graduates hired by Foxconn has grown to almost 3,750 this year, up by nearly 50% from a year ago, the company said on its WeChat account.
Over 1,620 graduates, or more than 40% of the total, will be working in Shenzhen, where Foxconn’s largest factory is located.They will be enriching the company’s departments of industrial Internet, research and development, management, technology, operations, as well as administration.
Foxconn’s integrated Digital Product Business Group said earlier that its Zhengzhou plant will provide every new employee with a signing bonus worth up to 10,000 yuan ($1,483). The business division that is in charge of assembling iPhones has a factory in Zhengzhou but also in Shenzhen, and Chengdu, public data show.
Trial production of the iPhone 14 series has already begun and mass production is planned to kick off next month, Cinda International Holdings said in its latest research note. Sales of the new handset series are expected to exceed those of the previous iPhone model, launched a year ago, in the early stages, it said.