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Getting hired a multi-step but rewarding process: ''once you''re in, you can''t believe how good it feels,'' says technician.

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For six weeks last spring, Angela Horton climbed into her gray 2000 Nissan Frontier and drove 30 minutes from her home in rural Goodman to the Nissan training center in Canton.

There, every Monday and Thursday night from six to 10 O'clock, she handled some of the 8,000 parts required to assemble an automobile. She wasn't getting paid, but she didn't mind. It was the seventh step of Nissan's hiring process. If she successfully completed the course, Nissan might offer her a job.

"Whatever it took, I knew it would be worth it," said Horton, mother of a seven-year-old boy.

Horton's investment paid off. Six weeks later, she received a letter in the mail from Nissan offering her a job as one of the initial 11 technicians hired in the body shop at the Canton plant. "I hopped all the way from the mailbox back to the house," said Horton.

For six years beginning in the 1980s, Horton worked for Packard Electric in Clinton, cutting wires for harnesses. Then she worked on an assembly line for Clorox. When Nissan announced it would build an automotive plant in Canton, Horton grew excited. When the Mississippi Employment Security Commission solicited applications, Horton was one of the first to apply.

"I mailed in a request for an application and received it promptly,"...

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