2018 Seasonal Hiring Update Published September 17, 2018 Hiring Updates Gap will hire 65,000 for the holidays. Kohl's will hire 90,000. UPS will hire 100,000. Last Thursday, Target announced it planned to hire 120,000 workers for the holiday season, surpassing last year by 20 percent. This is the largest...
Retail, Transport & Warehousing Stock Up On Holiday Staff PUBLISHED September 13, 2018 UPDATE: Target's Thursday announcement of 120,000 seasonal hires is the largest holiday hiring announcement from a brick-and-mortar retailer on record, according to Challenger tracking. UPDATE 2: JC Penney announced they will hire "over...
2017 Seasonal Hiring Update Published January 10, 2018 December Down Nearly 90 Percent, Lowest On Record Retail employment dropped 88 percent from November’s total of 462,700 to 53,900 in December, the lowest December total on record, according to an analysis of non-seasonally adjusted Bureau of Labor Statistics data by...
Published on December 13, 2017 Retail employment in November grew 26-percent to 451,600, the highest November total since 2012, when 485,400 jobs were added, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. October...
Published November 9, 2017 Retail Employment Gains Fall 8% From One Year Ago Fewer major retailers have announced large-scale hiring announcements so far this year, which reflects the drop in the number of October employment gains in the sector. Gains fell 8-percent from last year to 136,700,...
Published October 26, 2017 Retailers Turn To Telecommuters When most job seekers consider seasonal retail jobs, they think of late nights, controlling crowds, Black Friday, and wrapping gifts for last-minute holiday shoppers, but a few large retailers are looking for workers willing to stay home this season. JCPenney, Williams-Sonoma,...
Job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers fell 4.4 percent, from 33,825 in August to 32,346 in September. Last month’s total was 27 percent lower than the 44,324 job cuts announced in the same month last year, according to a report released Thursday by global outplacement...
Published on: Sep 14, 2017 While pivoting in the retail sector has caused thousands of store closures, price cuts on merchandise, and consolidation within the industry, retailers are signaling that there might be high demand for seasonal jobs, according to a forecast released Thursday from global outplacement...
Published on: Jan 10, 2017 On the news that Macy’s is shuttering 68 stores and cutting 10,000 workers and Limited is closing all 250 locations impacting 4,000 workers, a new report released Tuesday further indicates the industry’s inexorable shift to online. Retail clocked the fewest holiday job gains...
Retailers added fewer workers through the first two-thirds of the typical holiday hiring period, according to an analysis of employment data by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Read more Related...
