Jobs for everybody!

Psst... Need a job? Willing to work at a downtown call centre for $8.50 an hour (up to $12 an hour, with performance bonus)? If so, Clyde Haggart, general manager at RMH Teleservices International Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie wants to see your resume.

Psst... Need a job?

Willing to work at a downtown call centre for $8.50 an hour (up to $12 an hour, with performance bonus)?

If so, Clyde Haggart, general manager at RMH Teleservices International Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie wants to see your resume.

Real soon.

In fact, don't wait until next week.

Haggart is begging for your application sooner rather than later.

He'd be pleased as punch if you'd drop one off tonight or over the weekend to the RMH operation (shown) at the Queensbay Esplanade downtown.

Or, if you'd submit an online application at www.rmh.com.

"We're very excited and need people to get on board now," Haggart told SooToday.com tonight.

"As this expands, so will the opportunities for really well-paying jobs."

FACT: A major hiring battle for Sault call-centre workers starts this weekend.

FACT: The local call centres are butting heads over the hundreds of prospective employees they need to hire.

FACT: If you're willing to work at a call centre in Sault Ste. Marie, it's a job-seeker's market right now.

As SooToday.com and other media reported earlier today, RMH Teleservices International Inc. has confirmed it's landed its first major inbound technical support contract - a deal with Microsoft Networks that's expected to create about 180 new jobs.

Reached by SooToday.com in Nanaimo, B.C., Haggart said tonight that his hiring initiative will start with a big ad in tomorrow's Sault Star.

Meanwhile, both NuComm International and EDS have been courting prospective workers in recent weeks for expanded operations here in the Sault.

Big announcement next week from Sutherland Group

And SooToday.com has learned that a new player on the local scene, The Sutherland Group Ltd. of Rochester, New York, will ramp up its local hiring initiative as early as this weekend.

The Sutherland Group has been looking at Sault Ste. Marie as a possible location for a professional services operation involving hundreds of new jobs.

SooToday.com has learned that the company will make an announcement in the Sault sometime next week.