As Spring approaches, the time for home repairs and cleaning are little more than 90 days away. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) will prepare as it hires 70,000. That is enough to affect national employment figures in a period when the economy has added about 150,000 a month in the last six month. It is also enough so that when these people are let go, national unemployment numbers will be damaged.
According to The Home Depot, all is not lost for those who join the company and may fret about being laid off later
In fact, about half of The Home Depot’s 2011 seasonal hires stayed on in permanent positions as cashiers, sales associates, lot associates and garden associates, to name a few.
The official word from HD:
The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, today announced it has begun recruiting to fill more than 70,000 seasonal positions as it prepares for spring, the company’s busiest selling and hiring season.
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