Argos creates 10,000 jobs in time for Christmas
RETAILER Argos is to recruit more than 10,000 seasonal staff to work in its stores over the busy Christmas period.
Jobs on offer include customer advisers, stock assistants and drivers across all 840 stores, .
Initial contracts for all vacancies are around three to four months, with the potential for some roles to become permanent at the end of the season.
Recruits will be offered a minimum of 10 hours a week and six hours at weekends.
Steve Carson, director of retail and customer operations at Argos, told : "The Christmas period is naturally an extremely busy and exciting time of year for Argos.
"Job creation is one of the most important contributions we make to the communities in which we serve and we are committed to maintaining the friendly, personal service we are known for, whether customers are shopping in-store or buying online for home delivery."
Earlier this month Home Retail Group, which owns Argos, was brought by Sainsbury's for an estimated £1.4 billion.
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