General Electric vows 1,300 new tech, IT jobs in Michigan

5/4/2010 10:01 AM

General Electric recently announced that it will bring 1,300 new tech and IT jobs to the state of Michigan to help its economy and the company expand its reach. The company plans to institute the positions over the next five years, and they will cover multiple sectors of the company from manufacturing positions to products research and development.

Despite the youth of the partnership, GE is confident that the state is capable of providing it with workers that will help the company progress. Offering new positions in the state for IT professionals will help it recover from the global economic recession and likely attract other companies to the state.

"This is a significant event not just for GE and for Wayne County, but for Michigan and the nation," senator Carl Levin said. "The workers at this facility will help bring innovation from the research lab to the manufacturing floor, and that helps keep manufacturing competitive."

Lakshman Acuthman, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, believes that as the United States moves from stimulus spending to consumer spending, job growth is likely to sustain itself in fields that foster further growth such as IT, according to Yahoo.

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