WellStar will be hiring more than 1,000 workers in the coming weeks.
The company is aiming to hire about 500 new employees each week through the end of the year.
It will also offer training, job placement, career development and internship opportunities.
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It is the latest example of the tech industry taking a proactive approach to hiring for tech jobs in general.
Last year, the tech sector added nearly 3 million jobs, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The average salary for those positions was $57,900, according a 2015 report by the Center for Talent Innovation.
WellStar said that the hiring plan is part of its commitment to growing its workforce and creating more opportunities for people to get jobs.
“We know we have an important role to play in helping the next generation of people get into the tech workforce,” WellStar Chief Financial Officer and CEO James M. Lee said in a statement.
The hiring of workers is a boon for the tech boom, which is still struggling to recover from the financial crisis.
The recession hit the technology sector hard, and the U.S. unemployment rate has risen since then.
In February, Facebook hired 100 workers in a bid to fill a growing staffing shortfall.
That month, LinkedIn said it would hire 250 people this year and 1,500 people in the next.
The next round of hiring will begin in February.
A recent report by McKinsey & Co. found that about 7.2 million jobs in the U