Officials of NCO Group and Best Buy on Monday announced plans for a Best Buy customer support operation to bring 350 new jobs to Joplin in the next year.
The announcement was made at Systems and Services Technologies (SST), a converted Wal-Mart Store building on West Street, where the new jobs will be located. The building, a former Wal-Mart Store.
NCO Group, which bought SST eight months ago, has provided customer support for Best Buy since 2005, according to Bob Corsi, NCO senior vice president of operations.
“This is a next step for us with Best Buy,” he said. “We think this Joplin location offers something special in a state-of-the-art facility and a top-notch community able to support a call center with a regional employment force.”
Hiring for the operation will start next week with job fairs set for May 20 and 21 at the SST location at 1717 W. Seventh St. Job opportunities will range from Best Buy agents to supervisory and management-level positions.
Depending on market growth for Best Buy.com services, another 300 jobs may be added in 2009, he said.
Local News
<img src=" http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/business.gif " Border=0> 4:49 p.m. NCO Group officials announce Best Buy customer support for Joplin
- Local News
-
-
Couple 'scoop out' ice cream business from the past
When 3-year-old Brynlee Rabel tried coconut ice cream for the first time Tuesday, it was love at first taste. “She got the vanilla, but when she tasted my coconut ice cream she had to have it,” said Kayleigh Daugherty, a Joplin resident who wanted Brynlee to share the same experience she had as a little girl when she visited Anderson’s Ice Cream.
-
Missouri National Guard releases records involving soldiers who looted from Wal-Mart
The Missouri National Guard has released records confirming that four soldiers were disciplined for taking merchandise from the ruins of a Wal-Mart store in Joplin one day after the tornado that devastated the city a year ago.
-
Joplin school board awards contract to complete demolition of JHS
The Joplin Board of Education on Tuesday night accepted a bid for finishing tornado-related demolition at the high school.
-
Auditor cites, commission covers potential shortfall in Jasper County sheriff’s budget
The Jasper County Commission on Tuesday approved the transfer of $23,000 onto the Law Enforcement Sales Tax fund available to the sheriff’s office to cover a potential budget shortfall.
-
Joplin METS director requests space for additional ambulance
If all goes like METS Director Jason Smith hopes, this time next year the service will have two ambulances in Webb City, housed in their own station. At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, Smith requested that the council allow the Joplin-based Metro Emergency Transport System to rent or lease space at the former public works building, 110 E. Church St.
-
Mike Pound: Food competitions combine to make culinary heaven
It’s such a great idea, you wonder why someone didn’t think of it before. In fact, it’s such a good idea that it’s possible it came about by accident.
-
Mo. court strikes down part of 2008 harassment law
The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down part of a state harassment law enacted after the suicide of a St. Charles County teenager who was teased over the Internet.
-
Cattle rustlers strike again in SW Mo. county
The plague of cattle rustling goes on in southwest Missouri’s Greene County.
Sheriff Jim Arnott says the latest episode occurred sometime Sunday in Walnut Grove. -
Bids sought for Cherokee County water treatment plant
After many delays, construction bids are being sought for a water treatement plant and water tank for the Spring River Public Wholesale Water District No. 19.
-
Dog helps some get through the court process
Sophie, a mutt of a dog with draping ears and dotted brows, is helping people in St. Louis County court tell stories of crime to judges, investigators and attorneys.
- More Local News Headlines
-
