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Who’s Hiring for the Holidays?

Oct 16 by Leave a Comment

From cnbc.com

Retail naughty and nice list
CNBC’s Courtney Reagan speaks to Jan Kniffen of J. Rogers Kniffen, who picks retail stocks he says will fare well no matter what the outcome of the Christmas shopping season.

Here are the latest hiring plans from retailers:

GameStop: As the video game retailer prepares for the coming PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launches, it plans to hire about 17,000 seasonal employees. This is roughly in line with the previous year’s hires. Through December, the company plans to add in-store associates, consumer electronics technicians for its refurbishment operations center and warehouse personnel in its two distribution centers.

Jo-Ann: The privately held fabric and craft specialty retailer will add more than 3,000 seasonal workers. This marks the third straight year the company has asked more than 3,000 employees to join its staff for the holidays.

J.C. Penney: The struggling retailer said it will hire about 35,000 temporary workers as it prepares for the holiday rush, roughly in line with 2011’s hiring levels, before the company did away with most coupons and sales. Last year, J.C. Penney did not disclose hiring plans when ousted CEO Ron Johnson was at the helm and the retailer decided to forgo its typical holiday sales and instead hold sales only on Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. During that holiday quarter, the company’s same-store sales plummeted 31.7 percent. Since then, frequent sales have returned. During J.C. Penney’s most recent quarter, CEO Mike Ullman said its top priority “has been to improve traffic and purchase conversion by reconnecting with our customer who frankly had lost faith in us” and that “bringing back promotions was a critical first step.”

Target: In addition to offering year-round employees as much as 5 to 10 percent more hours for the holiday season, the company plans to hire 70,000 seasonal workers, down from 88,000 last year. These represent around a 20 percent decrease in seasonal workers as Target configures its holiday plans to meet the needs of the ebbs and flows of the holiday season.

Kohl’s: The company plans to decrease the number of seasonal workers it hires per store to 40 associates from 41 and increase the number of positions at distribution centers to 6,400 and credit operations to 350. Overall, Kohl’santicipates hiring about 53,000 associates. This is slightly higher than last year’s plans to add more than 52,700 holiday employees and a jump from 2011’s forecast of more than 40,000 seasonal workers.

Walmart: The discount giant will hire 55,000 seasonal associates, about 10 percent more than it announced last year, said Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg. It also plans to transition more than 35,000 associates to part time from temporary and another 35,000 associates from part time to full time.

Toys R Us: The toy retailer said it plans to add 45,000 employees to staff its stores and distribution centers. This is roughly on par with its hiring plans last year. Hiring for distribution positions began in July while in-store hiring began last week.

EBay: To meet the holiday order rush, the online retailer announced 800 job openings at its Eau Claire, Wis., fulfillment center and another 2,000 jobs at its Louisville, Ky., center. They include seasonal and permanent positions.

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