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According to the Decatur daily report, Mazda's joint venture factory with the United States will start recruitment in March and April next year, and plans to recruit 4000 employees, of which 3000 are production teams, including team leaders and production workers. By the end of September, Mazda Toyota had hired 120 employees, most of them managers and executives. In addition, 13 production team leaders recruited in the first round have arrived and are currently undergoing three months of skill training at Mazda and Toyota's Japanese factories. In January 2018, Mazda and Toyota confirmed to invest US $1.6 billion to build a joint venture factory in the United States, and located the factory in Alabama. The cooperation between the two Japanese car companies is based on the judgment of the growing demand for the U.S. market and light truck, as well as the short board of their respective product lines in the U.S., which can be described as a close match. According to previous information, the joint venture plant will start production in 2021, with an annual production capacity of 300000 vehicles. Jamie hall, the project manager and production recruitment consultant, said that for the recruitment positions of 4000 people, it is expected to require 10 times of the candidates to be screened, because according to the recruitment data of other factories in North America, the passing rate of all recruitment processes is usually 7% - 10%. This is a challenge for the joint venture, he said. Huntsville, Alabama is a highly competitive labor market with a low unemployment rate. The recruitment will be carried out in major cities within a 40 km radius of the factory, including Huntsville, Madison, Decatur, etc., and then expand to major cities 80 km away, and then major cities 120 km away, and hope to control the recruitment radius within 120 km. It is worth noting that with the change of the automobile market environment, domestic and foreign automobile giants have announced to close factories, cut production capacity and lay off workers substantially. Although Mazda and Toyota joint venture to build factories to expand production capacity is also to save costs and jointly resist risks, it also means that there is still room to be explored in the automobile market, which is undoubtedly positive information for the industry.