BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion isn’t content letting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) cut into its global cellphone market share. The Canadian-based firm is looking to hire more than 1,250 new employees, the Financial Post reports. Most of the positions are available at the company’s headquarters, and are in the areas of product development and research and development. RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), which has around 10,000 employees today, says it is still in a growth stage, even though it has been steadily hiring for awhile. It’s no secret why: the company has launched four new devices in just as many months, which is unheard of for the company in the past. An anonymous insider told the newspaper: “For the past three or four years, RIM has done the same thing companies like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are doing now with a fraction of the workforce… Right now, for every engineer who is promoted, RIM is hiring two or three to replace them.” Apparently, the company hasn’t yet started to feel the pressure from the economic downturn.