Progress Energy may hire 1000 entry-level employees by December 2005

ByRod Adams

A friend pointed me to a great article about the North Carolina State nuclear engineering program. Campus reactor leads the way in ‘nuclear renaissance’.

Here is a quote from the article that should make young technical types sit up and take notice:

Jacobson echoed Ferrell’s statements, when she also added the market for hiring at Progress Energy is improving following the recent purchase of Florida Energy.

“You don’t normally absorb a company the same size as yourself,” Jacobson said. “We had to borrow a lot of money from the market, but this made us more flexible as an employer. Now we’ll hire roughly 1,000 entry-level graduates by December to fill those positions vacated by our retiring senior employees.”

There is a lot more in the article. Highly recommended reading!

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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