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Updated 22:59
RETAILER ARGOS IS looking to hire 175 seasonal workers this year to help with the Christmas rush.
Part-time contracts, lasting into the start of next year, will be available at each of the company’s 40 Irish outlets.
The catalogue-based retailer is offering “competitive rates of pay” alongside a staff discount of 10 per cent.
According to Operations Manager Andy McClelland: ”We are looking for people who are customer focused, passionate and enthusiastic to join our teams”.
Recruitment is now under way, and details of the jobs on offer are available at www.argoscareers.com/christmas.
First published 14:34
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I’m applying. I’ll have to travel but I don’t care, I lost my job last week and I’m under 25 so the dole wouldn’t keep me in tea bags to be honest..
Hope you get one Tara, let us know !
Best wishes Tara :-)
Hope you succeed and who knows what may come up in meantime
Best of Luck! Hope you get it!
I took a seasonal job in Argos one Christmas. Ended up working there for two years during college. Good times and good chance of being kept on.
I may be mistaken, but aren’t these types of seasonal jobs available every year?
Your right… They pop up every year around the Christmas season…
‘Those waiting for employment, please go to counter number 3.’
Yea but for people on the dole now aren’t going to bother even applying because you sign off if you get the job and it’s until the new year and you go to sign back on and get the lower rate what’s the point
Good point
And that’s the general attitude in Ireland these days , unfortunately ,,,, oh well let the tax payers pay on …
In fairness Maggie, that attitude is fostered by the system.
Even with the best will in the world if you only get a job for 6 weeks and then that’s that and it will take an age to get back on benefits (which could be a disaster to endure), why would you take that route instead of staying on benefits?
The systems have to change to encourage work and not punish people for taking some work if they get it.
I think the point would be to get off the dole even for a week. It’s depressing being on the dole and not good for the aul mental health plus its nice to show future employers your a go getter and not lazy and willing to work at anything you can get your hands on. Its nice to have that on your CV I think.
Exactly but seems its easier not too bother judging by some da comments here ! I know some people who have that attitude too much effort getting the ould benefits back why bother getting a short term job .,
Maggie, I don’t think you’re getting it. The point is that some people can simply not afford to go on the lower rate of dole after the job contract is up, however much they would love to be working, even for the 6 weeks. I know I couldn’t afford to, and all I want is to be a regular, tax-paying member of society.
I agree with you that there are some people who just don’t want to work, but it’s a little misguided to paint everyone with the same brush.
Check your facts Aaron. They allow you to suspend your payment til january on the account you get a christmas job. I hate when someone makes a point without checking facts first
Alot to be said for your attitude too Maggie Cullagh!
You are all misinformed. You can take up employment having been on the dole, and once you return to the dole within 12 months of taking up employment, you’re rate of social welfare remains unchanged. They aren’t that near-sighted.
Go into any dole office. They’ve big signs hanging up
Well, I for one stand corrected. Today I learned. And shall be applying too! :)
Thanks for the info guys!
Good luck :)
Whatever :p
I really do need to go to specsavers – I thought the headline said “175 seasonal jobs up for grabs at Aras this Christmas”. Christmas elves, reindeers, Michael D … the mind boggles
Our yu dixslick two?
Only 175 jobs. It was 700 last year. 800 the year before.
http://www.thejournal.ie/argos-creating-800-irish-jobs-to-cater-for-christmas-rush-213321-Aug2011/
Great opportunity , sadly enough so many people without jobs will make excuses like I won’t get it or its not a long enough contract ,too far too travel bla bla so won’t even apply , fair deuce to those who do and get it !
Great opportunity?!!!!
I’d call it a good opportunity, there is also a chance of being kept on at the end of it.
There’s very little chance being kept on. Bit of money over xmas can’t be a bad thing though!
Ok I prob meant good!
Too far to travel bla bla?? Is that not a perfectly legitimate reason to not apply for a particular job?
People who do this will probably be kept waiting for their dole in the new year.
Laminated book of dreams.
If you get one of these seasonal jobs your not actually signed off social welfare they will keep your claim opened until after Xmas
Was the ad placed in Ireland or in Eastern Europe?
Ho ho ho…
I can’t possibly work in Argos after I getting a degree in college that Mummy and Daddy paid for. Don’t be so ridiculous. Even if I did it’s too far, at least 20 mins in the bus.
Not everyone has a mammy and daddy to put them through college. Some of us work damn hard to try to pay our way through college with no family behind us. Many people with many different backgrounds get a college degree.
The turkey meat industry will be employing up to 1000 people in November.
It’s a great opportunity for the temporary visitors to Ireland to take up this work opportunity and improve their English skills.
And they’ll all make it home for Christmas.
a job at Argos. My career ambitions can finally be fulfilled!
Enough of the back and forth here bitches. Make no mistake, everyone of those jobs will have 10 people going for them. At least half of those will be under 26 and they’ll know well that they’ll get a pass off social welfare to do so. Following a six week stint of feeling human again they’ll go back to the bloodbath that is the Irish jobsmarket for grads and recent grads. Anecdotal evidence tells me that there are 75-100 applications for any half decent jobsbridge. Not a job. A jobsbridge. Don’t hate the players. Hate the game.
Well said Mr. Doyle …..pity our short sighted ministers can’t see what they have put the populace through…. How demeaning it is when the only hope is an unpaid internship supposed to give experience but really is just UNPAID LABOUR
If I was 55-60 I would be taking a serious look at early retirement. It seems to be the case that going on welfare pays more than working as so many refuse to take a job as they would lose benefits. Do the sums and see what you would have in your hand at the end of the week and it maybe that you are wearing yourself out for nothing and as your pension rights are being ripped off anyway what’s the point in staying at work ?
Any idea roughly when companies would inform successful applicants if they got the job for a Christmas position?
Sometime before Christmas
I’d say u would be let know already if not you would have an interview very soon they would need to train u in before it starts to get busy
Should be given to the long term unemployed
Why, there a private company and can employ who they deem fit.
What classifies as long term umeployed? a person who couldn’t get a job during the boom?
can ‘t imagine those peopl have the get up and go that private companies look for.
If you ever got bored of being minister for health this is testimony that there are other jobs matched to your abilities. And you may not even have to purchase the beard. Don’t think a minister for health would be good at handing out presents though more like nicking
I was informed today in store that they are no longer taking applications since possibly as far back as September :(
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