Company Press Release
GTE's Business Keeps Getting Better: 1,200 Employees
Already Hired, 600 More New Hires Planned for 1997
Job Fair Slated July 19 at Oxnard Customer Center
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1997--After hiring 1,200 new
employees and transferring another 1,000 employees into new jobs thus far in 1997, a GTE
California official today said the telecommunications company plans to hire 600 more employees by
year-end to meet steadily increasing customer service and calling needs.
``Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 passed, GTE has emerged as an industry leader in
one-stop shopping,'' said Ron Johnson, GTE California's director of human resources. ``And,
customers are responding by using more and more GTE products and services.'' Since 1996, GTE
has built a national long-distance customer base of more than 1.2 million customers and 140,000
Internet-access customers, and currently is providing cable TV service to 27,000 households in
Ventura County.
Johnson said that in California, increased use of GTE's network and customer use of second and
third phone lines, also have spurred GTE's hiring trend. He said that to meet this upswing in
business, ``Based on current projections, GTE California plans to hire 25 new employees a week
and 100 new employees each month, as customer contact associates in our customer service
Megacenter in Oxnard.''
He said GTE immediately wants to fill 100 full-time positions and 100 part-time positions there. To
help fill those positions, GTE is hosting a Career Fair this Saturday, July 19, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at the Oxnard Megacenter. For more information, candidates should call 1(800)454-HIRE, and ask
for extension (NRS.MYB), from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.
In addition, the company plans to hire 25 bilingual customer contact associates for its National
Multi-Lingual Telecommunications Center in Santa Monica. ``To serve our diverse marketplace, we
want to hire people who are fluent in English and either Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean or Mandarin,
to work in the NMTC,'' Johnson said. Vacant jobs in the Santa Monica NMTC and Oxnard
Megacenter, pay from $8.35 to $17.38 an hour.
GTE also wants to hire 50 sales associates to work in its Phone Marts, located throughout Southern
California. Ten of those positions require bilingual candidates with fluency in English and either
Spanish or Vietnamese. Pay for those positions ranges from $7.12 to $10.66 per hour, plus
commission.
``We also have about 75 craft positions open,'' Johnson said. ``Only candidates who are trained will
be considered for those jobs.'' He said the company is seeking 30 customer service technician II
candidates and 10 cable splicers, to work at various locations throughout Southern California, at a
pay range of $9.53 to $21.16 per hour.
``In addition, we have openings for 15 senior communication specialists, ($9.64 to $20.65 per
hour); and 10 equipment maintainers and 10 equipment installers, with those positions located
throughout the company, paying between $9.69 to $22.03 an hour,'' he said.
Johnson said GTE has experienced a 7.5 percent increase in customer line growth since last year,
with a 10 percent increase in customer use of its telecommunications network. He said GTE also
has transferred about 1,000 employees so far this year into new jobs in paging, cable TV and video
services and other vacant positions.
Persons interested in GTE jobs should call 800/521-5749 or 800/482-5627, answered 24 hours
daily, seven days a week. GTE California provides a variety of local and regional voice, video and
data services to 4.8 million customer lines in nearly 500 communities in California and parts of
Nevada and Arizona. It is a wholly oned subsidiary of GTE Corp. of Stamford, Conn., and one of
the world's largest telecommunications companies.
Contact:
GTE California, Thousand Oaks
Larry Cox, 24-Hour News Bureau: 800/227-5556
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