World’s Leading Video Game Retailer Plans to Hire More than 28,000
Seasonal Associates
GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 29, 2015--
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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Source: GameStop Corp.
Joey Mooring
GameStop Corp.
817-722-7450
JoeyMooring@GameStop.com
