The maker of Blackberry phone handsets, Canadian company Research In Motion, is to recruit 3,000 new workers to keep pace with demand despite the global economic crisis.
'We hired about 4,000 people in 2008, currently we have 3,000 open jobs. We're still hiring a lot,' co-chief executive Jim Balsillie told the AFP news agency.
The optimism at Research in Motion contrasts with other makers of handsets such as Nokia, the world's biggest, which announced 1,200 job cuts late last year.
RIM reported a 66% rise in sales in the September-November period of last year compared with the equivalent period of 2007.
Mr Balsillie was speaking at the world's biggest mobile phone event, Mobile World Congress, which opened in Barcelona today.
