(FORTUNE Magazine) – The FORTUNE 500 industrial companies, which have shed about a quarter of their work force over the past decade, may seem like bad bets for job hunters. But there are exceptions: -- Johnson Controls of Milwaukee expects to add 500 jobs over November and December and 3,000 more next year. The car-seat maker is cashing in on Detroit's outsourcing. Johnson makes seats for Chrysler's Grand Cherokee, for example, something the auto company once would have done itself. Johnson needs designers at headquarters and skilled and semiskilled stitchers for a plant set to open in January in Glasgow, Kentucky, a joint venture with Nissan. -- Fruit-of-the-Loom, which is expanding, needs another 700 workers this year, a few managers among them, but mostly operators of spinning, dyeing, and knitting machines. Some of the jobs are at three Kentucky plants that make T- shirts and other clothing. Fruit is also hiring at a factory in Rabun Gap, Georgia, that it bought from Burlington Industries. -- PepsiCo will have 2,000 openings if it continues to hire at its current rate, which the company says is likely. Again, some managers are needed, but most spots are for hourly workers. The diversified company will spread the * jobs through its core business along with snacks and fast food. New Taco Bell restaurants, says a spokeswoman with a taste for metaphor, ''are opening like tortillas.''