Hiring Again

At five in the morning on the third day, Zhang Yi got up and hurried alone to Zhou Tai City. After the job fair began, he arrived at the venue.

As Zhou Tai City was an important manufacturing base in Jiangnan Province, there were many companies engaged in manufacturing or related industries. Once he arrived, he found that there were at least several thousand companies at the entire event. Major groups such as Ji Li Automobile Group had also come to this job fair.

However, compared to those companies, Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory's booth was tucked away in a corner of the venue, and it was very small.

But there was nothing he could do about that. His company simply had no reputation!

By the time Zhang Yi had finished setting up the booth, it was already eight o'clock. The doors of the job fair finally opened, and the army of job seekers flooded in. In an instant, the entire venue became a sea of people.

However, most of them headed straight for the major companies or those with a strong reputation in the city.

An hour after the job fair began, someone finally came to their booth. He was a middle-aged man around forty years old, and judging by his appearance, he had definitely worked in the machining industry before.

Although the man's clothes had been washed clean, there were still some oil stains on them.

"Hello! I'm Zhang Yi, the owner of Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory in Xian County. May I ask how I should address you?" Zhang Yi asked.

Although this applicant was different from the others—normally, job seekers came with résumés and personal information in hand, while this middle-aged man had none—Zhang Yi did not look down on him.

"Hello, Boss Zhang! My name is Zhang Yang. I'm a machine tool operator and currently hold a Level 5 Turner certificate. May I ask what benefits your factory offers?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Hello, Master Zhang. Our factory is in great need of turners, especially someone like you, a Level 5 Turner. How about this? We'll start you at 10,000 yuan a month. If you perform well, we can offer you an annual salary of at least 200,000 yuan!

However, Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory is in Xian County. Would that be a problem for you?" Zhang Yi replied.

Zhang Yang thought for a moment before saying, "All right. If you can provide the salary you mentioned, I have no problem with it. I have no requirements regarding where I work, but I hope your factory can provide accommodation."

"Of course!" Zhang Yi agreed without hesitation.

Zhang Yi was extremely happy to recruit a Level 5 Turner. Although Zhou Tai City, as a manufacturing hub, had quite a few turners above Level 5, they were basically all employed by large companies and enterprises. For a small factory like Zhang Yi's to recruit one was an incredible stroke of luck.

A great start made Zhang Yi very excited, so he planned to strike while the iron was hot and recruit a few more skilled workers. However, reality disappointed him. By noon, he had not recruited anyone else.

During the entire morning of recruiting, very few people had truly applied for technical positions. Most wanted other jobs, and their salary demands were high. Otherwise, Zhang Yi simply did not think they were suitable.

Zhou Tai City was Jiangnan Province's manufacturing base! Logically, hiring a few people should not have been difficult. But once applicants heard that they would have to work in Xian County, a relatively underdeveloped mountain area of Zhou Tai City, most of them shook their heads. Those willing to go either failed to meet Zhang Yi's technical requirements, did not know how to operate machine tools at all, or had never even touched one.

It was not until the afternoon that Zhang Yi barely managed to recruit a few people, and they had all just graduated from technical school. There was nothing he could do about it. Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory had no reputation. Still, Zhang Yi was already very pleased to have recruited a Level 5 Turner like Zhang Yang that day.

Of course, recruiting so few people fell far short of Zhang Yi's expectations. Even among these recruits, aside from the administrative staff, the rest had only just graduated from technical school. They had come solely because the factory offered relatively high pay, and in reality, they could only handle the simplest machining tasks.

After returning to the factory, Zhang Yi arranged accommodation for all the recruits the next day, then turned his attention back to the system.

He knew that with his factory's current scale and Xian County's location, it was impossible to recruit truly highly skilled talent. In the end, he would still have to hire through the Multiverse Scholar Hiring System.

However, Zhang Yi still could not afford to hire scholars from the Scholar Hiring System on a large scale. Hiring even the lowest-ranking scholar in the system cost at least 50 Scholar Coins, equivalent to an annual salary of more than 150,000 yuan. Red Alert Engineers and the like required 100 Scholar Coins a year, or an annual salary of over 300,000 yuan.

If all of Zhang Yi's funds were converted into Scholar Coins, he would only have around a hundred, not even 150. If he hired a Red Alert Trainee Engineer, he could only hire one.

So for now, Zhang Yi still planned to hire beginner Dwarf mechanical scholars. However, he had already hired one beginner Dwarf scholar. If he hired too many Dwarves, it might draw suspicion from outsiders.

Despite all his concerns, Zhang Yi first converted his funds into 100 Scholar Coins and immediately hired two more beginner Dwarf scholars through the system. This time, he still hired the cheapest beginner scholars among the Dwarves, so 100 Scholar Coins was just enough to hire two of them.

Of course, both beginner Dwarf scholars were female. One was named Xiao Liu, and the other Xiao Xia. To avoid arousing too much suspicion, he had Xiao Hua and the other two Dwarf scholars refer to one another as sisters and tell outsiders that the three of them were sisters.

After hiring the two scholars, Zhang Yi placed them all under Xiao Hua's management. Since they were all Dwarf scholars, having Xiao Hua manage them was certainly better than handing them over to anyone else.

In truth, Zhang Yi also wanted to hire more capable scholars. According to Xiao Hua, a scholar's abilities corresponded to their Scholar Coin cost. The more capable the scholar, the higher the hiring price. For example, there was no ordinary difference between a 50-Scholar-Coin scholar and a 100-Scholar-Coin scholar.

On the third day after Zhang Yi recruited those employees, the machine tools he had ordered arrived.

Although these newly recruited employees had basically just graduated from school, Zhang Yi discovered the advantages of fresh graduates. Their learning ability was very strong, and their execution was excellent. As long as something was explained once, they could carry it out well. Whenever they did not understand something, they would directly ask Zhang Yi and the others rather than pretending to understand. This greatly reassured Zhang Yi.

Of course, Zhang Yi's factory was still desperately short-staffed. After all, the factory covered more than ten thousand square meters, yet it had fewer than ten people in total. Still, Zhang Yi wanted to establish the factory's basic personnel structure first.

At the same time, he posted recruitment notices online. Although Zhang Yi did not have high hopes for online hiring, the factory's current situation meant that every recruit counted. What if he managed to find a truly talented person?

Zhang Yi had ordered more than ten machine tools this time, so it took an entire day to finish installing them. However, compared with the enormous factory building of more than ten thousand square meters, those dozen or so machine tools were far too few.

They occupied only a tiny area in one workshop. Zhang Yi knew this was only temporary. He believed that with the Scholar Hiring System, his factory would definitely become the largest machinery factory in all of Xian County. He was absolutely full of confidence in the factory's future.

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