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Aerospace Companies Seek Young Recruits

Sunday, May 20, 2007 9:02:09 PM
By ALICIA CHANG

 Workers assemble a PW500 engine destined for a Cesna Citation at the Pratt and Whitney plant in Longueuil, Quebec in this Dec. 13, 2006 file photo. Faced with an aging work force, aerospace companies have begun targeting young recruits online. The average age of an aerospace worker was 45 in 2005. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)LOS ANGELES (AP) - Justin Wong, an aerospace engineering student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was schmoozing on Facebook.com last fall when he came across a sleek Boeing job ad.

Wong, who had just interned at the aerospace company, saw the banner on the popular social networking site as a "two-way street" — a defense behemoth reaching out to today's youth in their virtual playground.

"My first impression was that Boeing is getting with the times," said the 21-year-old senior, who will work at Boeing's satellite division after graduation. "It shows the company is making an effort to talk to us on our level."


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