Ali Rajah: Metro Toronto Covention Centre

RIM Dept: RIM is looking to fill 600 positions, in fields such as software development and testing, hardware engineering and technical support. Most of the jobs are at its Waterloo, Ont., headquarters, with some openings based in Mississauga, Ont., said Ali Rajah, the company s global talent acquisition leader, according to CBC. The technology business is cyclical, said Rajah. RIM is growing considerably few companies are growing at the same rate. We re looking for talent, fresh ideas and innovative people to address that growth and research in Motion has its challenges but the chance to work for a company that was once Canada s high-tech darling and has nowhere to go but up is what lured them to a job fair in Toronto for the BlackBerry maker, job seeking hopefuls say. The hiring boom comes just eight months after the company laid off 2,000 people, 11 per cent of its global workforce. Some of them were back trying to get hired again by RIM, among the hundreds of job seekers at the career fair Thursday at the Metro Toronto Covention Centre. Ali Rajah, RIM's global talent acquisition leader, says the company wants to fill 600 positions. Prithi Yelaja/ (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.