The quality of a retail store’s customer service can make or break a sale, and determine whether or not a customer decides to go with that particular brand. And particularly during the holidays, retail stores look to hire the strongest Read More
Category Archives: seasonal jobs
Recruiting Strategies for Seasonal Employees
The holiday shopping season is well underway, along with employers’ seasonal hiring efforts. The National Retail Federation has predicted holiday sales will increase 3.6% this holiday season, and retailers are expected to be recruiting between 640,000 and 690,000 seasonal employees Read More
Managing Stress in Customer Service
Customer service jobs can be extremely stressful, especially during the holidays, since customers’ anxieties tend to be heightened at this time of year, making them more difficult to deal with. A company’s success is highly dependent on the performance Read More
Beyond a Temporary Fix: Make Your Winter Seasonal Job Last
With hundreds of thousands of seasonal retail job openings up for grabs, chances are looking good for job seekers in the market for temporary work. Some people looking for winter seasonal jobs simply want some extra income and the opportunity Read More
Retail Customer Service Jobs: Create a Winning Job Description
With holiday shopping season already here, many retail companies are hustling to fill seasonal, as well as permanent, job openings. While finding candidates to fill these jobs may be a struggle, it is still always worth putting in the Read More
Top Companies Hiring for Winter Seasonal Jobs in 2016
There is no doubt about it: 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for winter seasonal jobs. Chicago-based outplacement and career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas recently reported that retailers are looking to hire approximately 700,000 Read More
Before the Holiday Shopping Begins: Best Fall Seasonal Jobs
While companies begin hiring for winter seasonal jobs, many forget that there are also numerous fall seasonal jobs that are very interesting, don’t have anything to do with holiday shopping, and have a lot to offer to job Read More
Attention Employers: Find Candidates for Seasonal Job Openings
With holiday shopping demands growing and the unemployment rate still a low 4.9%, many companies are scrambling to fill thousands, or tens of thousands, of seasonal job openings. Last week we announced some of the companies in the United States Read More
Hot for the Holidays: Popular Winter Seasonal Jobs for 2016
This past month, some of the biggest retail chains and transportation companies in America announced their hiring plans for the holiday season. Some of the companies hiring the most employees (meaning tens of thousands across the country) for winter Read More
Holiday Hiring is Already Underway for Seasonal Retail Jobs
The weather may still be hot and humid, but retailers are already shifting their holiday hiring plans for seasonal jobs into high gear. With the trend growing towards earlier and earlier holiday shopping for consumers, and Christmas sales expected to Read More