3-VredrA, One of the city's largest employers Company president Murray acknowledged it's been a meteoric rise for its Belleville site. "We expected to employ 700 to 1,000 people in our centre and we now stand at 1,000 and are still growing...when we first met in June (for the job fair) we said we would move quickly. And we did. We started hiring in midAugust and began servicing clients on Sept. 5 (2000). "In a d d i t i o n , Belleville has kept its end of the bargain by providing great people, a p r o d u c t i v e learning environment and a strong community spirit," he said. With worldwide growth of about 40 per cent a year, Stream will be turning to communities like Belleville to provide the needed manpower. The Belleville site, for instance, encourages interested people "< to drop off their resumes for employment consideration. M u r r a y said he believes Stream is "a great place for people of all backgrounds to learn more about technology. "We offer career opportunities to not only the technically skilled employee but through our extensive in-house training programs attract a variety of employment groups. This ranges from newcomers to technology to new college and high school graduates to second career individuals to single parents to spouses of military personnel." INTELLIGENCER PHOTO BY DARKO ZELJKOVIC ; Stream International has gone from a maybe or could be to one of the city's biggest employers. m one year,