Look Now for a Holiday Job
Posted on November 18, 2005
An Associated Press article says you need to be looking now if you want a holiday job. The article said retailers hired 700,000 workers in the fourth quarter to keep up with demand from holiday shoppers.
Global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas points out that last year, retailers added nearly 700,000 workers in October, November and December to handle the onslaught of shoppers. More than half the workers were added in November.Monster.com also an article about holiday hiring. Some of it will be tied to consumers willing to spend this season but there will be job openings. The article on Monster says earlier is better retailers will post more openings as needed.CEO John Challenger says there are several things you can do to raise your chances of landing a job. Among them, start now. He also says consider becoming a fill-in. You can get a foot in the door by offering to start working now as an on-call fill-in for vacationing staffers.
As always, early applicants will have the most options, but it also pays to stay in the game into peak season."We start as early as possible and stagger our hiring," says Sheliah Gilliland, a spokeswoman for Blairs, Virginia-based online retailer eToys Direct. "We begin the big hiring push in early September, then continue into November, according to our forecast and week-to-week sales." According to Gilliland, eToys projects it will hire more than 1,300 seasonal associates in 2005, in roles ranging from "fulfillment, pick-and-pack and quality control to smaller numbers of recruiters, IT and loss-prevention specialists as well as maintenance people."
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