Steel producer ThyssenKrupp CSA Companhia Siderurgica (CSA) announced on Friday it started the process of hiring 2,500 employees for its new plant and port being built in Rio de Janeiro.

Valdir Monteiro, CSA human resources manager, said that the first phase of recruitment will start in September this year and finish by the end of 2008. They hope to get 500 staffs by December 2007.

He also said that 60 percent of the positions require a secondary education certificates, 25 percent some kind of technical education and 15 percent higher education.

ThyssenKrupp CSA is a joint venture company of ThyseenKrupp in Brazil which is ranked among the world's Top-500 companies.

Source: Xinhua