Christmas Job Hunt 2010

iclayt

Anyone know when WHSmith start recruiting? I did ask in store today and got a helpful "Errrrrrr...I dunno". Not sure if they have advertise online or not.

Kate78

HMV and Waterstones are recruiting - https://www.hmvgroup.com/careers

scooby088

My local Argos aren't recruiting fot their store this christmas, they are simply using staff from another store locally.

Kate78

If you like kids you could always check http://www.greatgrottos.co.uk/ and see if they are recruiting for seasonal Elf/Santa positions at a shopping centre near you.

twiglet98

Bump, the Christmas vacancies are filling fast.

Truegho

Very bad news indeed. No wonder I can't get a job in any of the dept stores. The employment situation stinks nowadays.

And as regards those self-service checkouts, which are sadly becoming all too common now in retai stores, I HATE them poison! They should never have been introduced. We should not be forced into using them by interfering shop floor workers, if we don't want to. And furthermore - these blasted self-service tills are contributing to the rising unemployment now, annoyingly obviating the need for employers to take on more staff.

paulwf wrote: »

The Guardian is reporting some bad news on this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/09/argos-cold-christmas-prediction-viewpoint

"A couple of years ago, Argos hired 20,000 temporary staff. Last year, the figure was 12,000 staff working 12 hours a week on average. This year, it will recruit 7,000 workers doing 5% fewer hours."

Christmas temp jobs used to be so easy to get and gave a boost for Christmas plus something to put on the CV or even a permanent job. If the trend at Argos is repeated throughout the industry and recruitment levels are down over 50% from 2 years ago it is going to be a very poor Christmas for many.

Around my area the big difference this year in the supermarkets is self service tills, I think they are going to be taking up a lot of the demand instead of Christmas temps.

NickiM

I got an interview with Boots for a Christmas job, but couldn't make it, and despite numerous phone calls to the store (as soon as I received the email and since), have not been able to get hold of the right people. Any messages I have left have not been returned

Iwani

ELC in my town are advertising in store for Christmas workers now

nicola00

I have tried for over an hour to apply online for boots jobs but after selecting the postion (s) and Apply now it takes me back to the homepage or the search page

Anyone else had this problem?

Is there a phone number or email for applying, I have had a look on the recruitment page but don't see any contact info

nancy17

Thank you for the list of jobs! I'm applying