#249 - Chapter 249 Mercenary Guild Recruitment

Thus, the interview team became entirely composed of women.

Seeing this, the Mercenary Guild quickly adjusted its interview methods.

So, one team became two.

One team for men, one for women, interviewed separately.

The positions the guild was recruiting for mainly included:

1. Security positions: These positions primarily recruited internal security personnel for the guild and the chamber of commerce, with 200 openings.

2. Professional mercenary positions: These positions primarily recruited professional mercenaries for the guild, responsible for field missions, security tasks, armed escort missions, combat missions, and so on. This position had higher requirements, requiring applicants to be under 32 years old, and had requirements for height and physique. There were 500 openings, 350 for men and 150 for women.

3. Administrative positions: These positions recruited administrative staff for the chamber of commerce and the guild, mainly responsible for financial management, records management, administrative management, window services, customer service, and other tasks, with 500 openings, all requiring female applicants.

4. Special talent positions: These positions mainly recruited those with special skills. Senior management personnel, engineering and technical personnel, highly educated individuals, and even those skilled in cooking, driving, or other irreplaceable skills were included in this category. Gender and age were not limited.

5. Laborers: Responsible for some physical labor, but with fewer openings, only 50 were recruited, requiring male applicants, between 30 and 40 years old.

The upper limit for this recruitment was 1500 people. Compared to the overall scale of hundreds of thousands of people in the entire settlement, these 1500 positions were a drop in the bucket.

However, the economic revitalization of the settlement could not rely solely on the chamber of commerce and the guild.

The chamber of commerce and the guild acted as catalysts, igniters, the first domino.

The settlement's economy needed to be solved by themselves. However, with this start, it would not be difficult to turn this economic cycle.

The settlement had already distributed interest-free point loans to people on the first day, and these points were the first start-up capital provided to them.

Those without work could completely support themselves by doing some small business.

Those who could make snacks sold snacks, those who could do handicrafts sold handicrafts, those who understood business opened small shops, and they would always find their own way.

Of course, there were also those who borrowed points and squandered them all. Once they were squandered, they were gone, and if they didn't revitalize their lives, it was their own problem. Others couldn't help with this even if they wanted to.

Currently, the settlement only needed to ensure that people had something to do and could survive on a large scale.

With hope, the future would be better.

These things didn't need to be taught. The leadership teams of each settlement were originally management personnel from various departments, and they were experienced in handling these matters.

Under the coordinated efforts of the chamber of commerce and the settlement headquarters, the atmosphere of the entire settlement was completely renewed.

The negative emotions such as despair, complaint, negativity, resistance, and hatred that could be felt everywhere had disappeared from the streets and alleys. Now everyone's face showed a long-lost smile.

However, it is worth noting that everything has two sides.

After the arrival of the virus, people went from hope to despair, and although they were dissatisfied, the main emotion was helplessness. No one wanted to see this situation, but since it happened, they could only face it strongly.

Now that the economy of the settlement was recovering, people saw hope in despair, and rekindled the courage to live and the yearning for the future. Although life at this time could not return to the level before the virus outbreak, at least everything was improving, and people had a goal in their hearts.

The most feared thing was that the little hope that had just been ignited in people's hearts would be extinguished again one day in the future. Once this flame was extinguished, it would be impossible to return to the original state. People would go crazy and run wild when they saw the hope of survival disappear, and the consequences would be very serious.

Whether this day could be avoided depended partly on the future attitude and choices of the managers, and partly on the future changes in the situation.

May we all be blessed with longevity, and though far apart, share the beauty of the moon together.

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In order to enjoy the benefits of being the first to eat crabs, the headquarters of each settlement was running at full power, non-stop.

They imitated each other and shared experiences, just to maximize their interests.

The mosquito repellent bracelet had already been used as a trump card, flying back and forth between other settlements that had not yet cooperated.

Therefore, in the past two days, the surrounding settlements had successively rushed to the cooperative settlement closest to them. They were going to purchase this mosquito repellent bracelet, and the purchase funds had already been borrowed from the Huatong Chamber of Commerce.

As for why the Huatong Chamber of Commerce didn't directly sell the bracelets to them, but instead lent them money and let them buy them in various settlements, the reason was very simple.

If the chamber of commerce directly shipped the goods to them, the price would definitely be 10 points, and it would be impossible to raise the price. Moreover, the settlement had to pay interest when borrowing from the chamber of commerce. At this time, even if they borrowed money and took the goods, they would not say good things about you, and would scold you for being a profiteer behind your back, which was definitely a thankless task.

If they were allowed to take the goods from the settlement, the chamber of commerce's shipment volume would be the same and would not be affected. The interest on the loan would still be collected, which was no different from direct shipment. However, if they went to the settlement to buy, the settlement would earn the price difference, which had nothing to do with the chamber of commerce. And when they went to the settlement and saw that the economy was prospering and people's lives were getting better, and they were earning back a lot of points, what would they think?