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...some weeks, Ian Jobson makes 20 types of Kit Kat at the big plant he oversees in the northern English city of York, the largest Kit Kat manufacturing operation in the world. Nestle installed $11 million worth of robots on the production line last year, and a new $1.6 million automated packaging machine is due to be installed this year. The number of people needed to staff the round-the-clock operation has been cut to 28 from 60. Jobson patrols the factory floor in his white coat and hairnet, soliciting ways to improve production. Nestle sent a manufacturing SWAT...
...Jobson recently met over lunch with Brabeck, who is on the road more often than he is in Vevey. Brabeck estimates he meets from 2,000 to 3,000 Nestle staff members every year, about 10% of the work force. He pays particular attention to about 150 up-and-coming managers, trying to get to know them and their spouses...
...snare the students, the corps gleaned its basic on-campus strategy from other major campus recruiters, with giveaways and glad-handing sessions. “TFA tries to look at project models. Like, how does Goldman Sachs get a lot of people to apply?” Jobson says. “They have fancy ads in The Crimson and they have nice dinners or whatever to get the word...
...lynch-pin of the corps’ on-campus recruitment is the “campus campaign manager,” a student the company hires to spread the TFA gospel. At Harvard, managers like Jobson seek out leaders from the Phillips Brooks House Association and publications like Let’s Go. They poster, e-mail, call, set up information sessions, and form groups on Facebook...
...Sometimes I would think to myself, why are we recruiting so aggressively?” Jobson says. “Now I understand. I’m not even at the most challenging school. I don’t have kids with behavioral problems. I don’t have kids on drugs. But this is the fucking hardest job in the world...