Google is expected to add more than 6,200 workers to its worldwide workforce in 2011. Offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Birmingham, Alabama and Cambridge, Massachusetts are just a few expecting to expand.
This hire would be Google’s largest expansion yet, increasing their number of employees by 25%. Google is currently the Internet’s most profitable company, reports the Detroit News.
Google is expected to hire account managers, account coordinators and display managers in Birmingham, Alabama. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, they are expected to hire technical specialists for Google Book Search, Google Ad Words, and You Tube. Advertising associates, sales representatives, account managers for online sales and television are also expected to be hired.
Google said they will be hiring multiple people to fill each position. At the beginning of 2011, Google employs about 24,000 people worldwide. An estimated 1,000 workers will be hired in Europe. Google won’t say exactly how many new jobs they are adding. Google recruited 4,500 workers worldwide in 2010.
The announcement produced 75,000 job applications to Google, 15% more than the most the company ever received in one week. May 2007 was the next highest.
Google is growing outside its search engine enterprise, the Boston Globe reported. Google is expanding into mobile services, display advertising and Internet applications. Google competes with Facebook, Inc. and Apple, Inc. for high tech talent.
Google is working on the Android operating system for cell phones and computers, YouTube, Google television (combining internet and television viewing), building the Chrome operating system to compete with Microsoft’s Windows, and developing new social networking sites to compete with Facebook. Google wants to target the 5 billion owners of mobile phones. Only one and a half billion people own PCs said Carl Howe, director of consumer research at Yankee Group in Boston.