The virtual mall operator, which hired 307 college graduates this spring, had earlier eyed a similar number for next year.
Its development division, which creates online services, will hire 150 graduates, up 40 per cent from the spring of 2009. The other 250 are bound for sales and administration. Roughly 30 per cent of this class of 2010 will have science backgrounds.
In addition to the spring intake this year, Rakuten headquarters will employ six Chinese in the fall and seven Indians next January. And in midcareer personnel, the firm is keeping the 2009 figure on a par with last year's, which came to 690.
The Rakuten group employs about 5,500 workers overall, a figure that the company says will top 10,000 within a few years.
(Nikkei)

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