Fidelity to hire about 600 people in New England
Updated April 7, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Fidelity to hire about 600 people in New England
Fidelity Investments plans to fill nearly 600 new client-facing and technology jobs in New England as part of a broader hiring push to hire about 4,000 people across the country this year. Fidelity spokeswoman Kim Reingold said the net new jobs would include about 50 technology roles in Boston, as well as about 525 jobs at the companyâs Smithfield, R.I., and Merrimack, N.H., sites. As part of the hiring push announced Wednesday, Fidelity wants to expand its network of licensed financial planners to more than 20 new markets in the United States, and to increase its staff technologists by 10 percent, including software engineers and data scientists. The financial services giant launched a similarly large push around this time last year, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. By the end of the year, the companyâs total workforce had grown by 4 percent, to 47,000 employees. Fidelity had hired more than 10,000 new associates in 2020 to keep up with surges in call-center and trading volume, but many were either for temporary jobs or to fill existing positions. â JON CHESTO