christmas jobs

pc10

Does anyone have any idea if Boots are looking for Christmas staff yet?

I remember last year there was a website addy for this purpose.

Any other high st stores already recruiting (preferably online!) - this is for the Newcastle area.

Cheers

nikkif_3

if you have a debenhams near you they are always recruiting xmas staff!

pondie1

someone told me royal mail are taking applications from today for xmas staff,

DrFluffy

They usually start advertising in October. No harm in sending in your CV early though...

seb1

Argos and Woolworths have started

rhig

Not really the same kind of job but if you want town centre retail, Coral and other bookmakers are pretty much always hiring, even for very short contracts. The pay is ~£6.50/hr or maybe more, I haven't worked there in over a year.

pc10

thanks for the suggestions - better get emailing!

mhoc

So you apply for Christmas jobs even before you set off for uni! I suppose this is going to be down to me again, ringing up and collecting forms for my daughter.

I have been trying to get my daughter to apply for part time jobs before she sets off for uni. No success, too lazy.

Does anyone know what the job situation is like for students in York? How would she find out about them aprt from the local papers?

Mary

rhig

Mhoc, the Job Centre Plus site is a great tool, you can search for temporary jobs within a specified distance from your location. Monster.com may also be worth using, your daughter can upload her CV and say she needs Christmas work and have employers reply to her CV if they are interested.

Snow_Angel

mhoc wrote:

So you apply for Christmas jobs even before you set off for uni! I suppose this is going to be down to me again, ringing up and collecting forms for my daughter.

I have been trying to get my daughter to apply for part time jobs before she sets off for uni. No success, too lazy.

Does anyone know what the job situation is like for students in York? How would she find out about them aprt from the local papers?

Mary

Why don't you try not helping her and not giving her any money this time? She'll learn the hard way - sometimes the best way to learn! Explain that you're not going to help her out and that she has got to learn to take responsibility for it herself. After all she's at uni, she's an adult and she should start to learn what the real world is like while she still has the "safe" University bubble to live in, otherwise when she leaves Uni the thud to Earth is going to be much, much harder. (Can you tell I was never given an easy life by my parents :rotfl: .... and you know what, in hindsight I love them for it!).

Quite often in the run up to Christmas stores have notices on their windows and doors looking for Christmas staff. But just browsing on the net on their sites and sending quick e-mails to HR departments is often how I've looked previously.

mhoc

Believe me we have tried being hard but we always end up helping her out of her scrapes. What we do for her is more for our own self preservation so that she does not make life completley miserable for ourselves and her younger brothers.

She will find it much more difficult than she ever imagines, tried telling her, no use. Here she has a huge support system, always someone to take her out, pay for meals and drinks, entertain her, make her meals, give her lifts , support her when she has had an aurgument/fight with us or anyone else...

My daughter could not get in halls because of applying late so at the momnet she has a room in a friends flat (actually someone she has only known for a month and met twice) She is 35th on the waiting list. I dont know how long this flat sharing will work because she is a total slob.

My husband left home at 16 because of problems at home (nothing to do with him) and lived in a flat in a nasty part of town , working for a local joiners. My parents could not afford to send me to college so I was also out of school at 16 and I worked in a shop until I found work as a lab tech. Neither of us got hand outs from parents and had to support ourselves etc but I think it was normal then.

Mary