GameStop Announces Seasonal Hiring Plans for Holiday 2015
September 29 2015 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
World’s Leading Video Game Retailer Plans to
Hire More than 28,000 Seasonal Associates
GameStop, a family of specialty retail brands that makes the
most popular technologies affordable and simple, today revealed its
plans to hire more than 28,000 seasonal associates nationwide as
the company prepares for the upcoming holiday shopping season.
This year’s total number of seasonal hires represents an
increase of approximately 12% when compared to the same period in
2014. The increase signifies GameStop’s commitment to providing
exceptional service during the holidays, as the retailer gears up
to provide unique and lasting solutions for every holiday customer,
including new and pre-owned video game products, and collectible
items sure to be on everyone’s wish list.
“Providing exceptional customer service is the cornerstone of
GameStop’s promise to make our customers’ favorite technologies
affordable and simple,” said Lisa Keglovitz, vice president of
human resources for GameStop. “Hiring an additional 28,000 seasonal
associates will ensure we are appropriately staffed to meet our
customers’ needs this holiday.”
To manage the breadth of anticipated holiday demand, GameStop is
recruiting for in-store Sales and Service Advisors, consumer
electronic technicians within its refurbishment operation center
(ROC), and warehouse personnel for the company’s two distribution
centers based in Grapevine, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky.
GameStop’s recruiting efforts for identifying and hiring
talented, hardworking and passionate employees for this holiday
season are scheduled to begin in the next few days, and continue
until the end of October. Interested applicants should visit the
GameStop Careers website, or check out the company’s recruiting
efforts on www.indeed.com, www.snagajobs.com and www.craigslist.org
for a list of available jobs, descriptions, qualifications and
application details.
Seasonal jobs will begin October 18th and run through January
8th. Each position will offer part-time, flexible work schedules
during the week which include the potential for up to 10-25 hours
of work weeknights, weekends and days. In addition, all seasonal
hires will receive a 15% discount off select merchandise purchases
at GameStop, as well as its Spring Mobile, Simply Mac and ThinkGeek
stores and online.
About GameStop Corp.
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a global,
multichannel video game, consumer electronics and wireless services
retailer. GameStop operates more than 6,800 stores across 14
countries. The company’s consumer product network also includes
www.gamestop.com; www.Kongregate.com, a leading browser-based game
site; Game Informer® magazine, the world’s leading print and
digital video game publication and the recently acquired Geeknet,
Inc., parent company of ThinkGeek, www.thinkgeek.com, the premier
retailer for the global geek community featuring exclusive and
unique video game and pop culture products. In addition, our
Technology Brands segment includes Simply Mac and Spring Mobile
stores. Simply Mac, www.simplymac.com, operates 72 stores, selling
the full line of Apple products, including laptops, tablets, and
smartphones and offering Apple certified warranty and repair
services. Spring Mobile, http://springmobile.com, sells post-paid
AT&T services and wireless products through its 590 AT&T
branded stores and offers pre-paid wireless services, devices and
related accessories through its 69 Cricket branded stores in select
markets in the U.S.
General information about GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the
company’s corporate website. Follow @GameStop on Twitter and find
GameStop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GameStop.
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