GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.
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