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Eight applicants for every Worthing Tesco job
3:10pm Monday 8th February 2010
More than eight people applied for each new job at a giant superstore opening later this month.
Tesco said it was overwhelmed by more than 2,000 applications for 250 posts at its “Extra” store in West Durrington, Worthing.
Contractors are working frantically to finish the £18 million complex, which replaces a smaller store nearby.
The old store closed yesterday and the new store, employing a total of 556 staff, will open on Thursday, February 25, at 8am.
Tesco Extra manager Jon Shannon said: “The quality of applicants was fantastic and I am delighted with my new team."
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matski_98, Brighton says...
3:55pm Mon 8 Feb 10
From my experience of advertising jobs in the past I'd expect something more in the region of 15-20 per role.
remy heath, brighton says...
3:59pm Mon 8 Feb 10
CDL1, Brighton says...
4:54pm Mon 8 Feb 10
sussex tiger, seaford says...
5:08pm Mon 8 Feb 10
3:59pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Things must be really bad, large numbers wanting to work at tescos
EVERY LITTLE HELPS !!!!!!!
Patrick Mustard, Craggy Island says...
5:13pm Mon 8 Feb 10
davyboy, abingdon, oxon says...
6:04pm Mon 8 Feb 10
remy heath wrote:any port in a storm, as people say. better some employment, rather than none. not everyone's cup of tea, i grant you, but some folk do have some pride, and work hard to put food on the table. those that say they wouldn't work there are just plain bone idle, or snobs. tesco are reputedly a good employer, with good staff benefits, so why not?
Things must be really bad, large numbers wanting to work at tescos
Gaz the great, Brighton says...
6:18pm Mon 8 Feb 10
VoodooGangbanger, Brighton says...
10:50pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Lil, Worthing says...
8:37am Tue 9 Feb 10
VoodooGangbanger wrote:So you'd prefer that some of the mum's who work in such places not to work there and live off of benefits you pay for?
Thought I read the title Eight apllicants for Worthless Tesco job at first, although I was wrong my intial thoughts seemed much more applicable.
Christ some of you lot are extremely obnoxious.
Glenda, Hove says...
9:46am Tue 9 Feb 10
Skippah, Brighton says...
10:43am Tue 9 Feb 10
Glenda wrote:Or they just don't know why they are understaffed and they are just saying the first thing that comes into their heads to get rid of you so they can get back to doing their job, which is already difficult enough due to the lack of staff, which you seem to have noticed, but failed to realise that the staff in the branch will have NO control over employment levels.
How strange! Whenever I complain about the lack of staff at their Hove branch (and the resulting queues) one of their excuses is that they cannot attract applicants. Another excuse is (and bear in mind their huge profits here) that they are "waiting for the next financial year before they recruit".
Glenda, Hove says...
11:53am Tue 9 Feb 10
Skippah wrote:I never said that I had complained to the branch staff. This was a reply from Head Office.
Glenda wrote: How strange! Whenever I complain about the lack of staff at their Hove branch (and the resulting queues) one of their excuses is that they cannot attract applicants. Another excuse is (and bear in mind their huge profits here) that they are "waiting for the next financial year before they recruit".Or they just don't know why they are understaffed and they are just saying the first thing that comes into their heads to get rid of you so they can get back to doing their job, which is already difficult enough due to the lack of staff, which you seem to have noticed, but failed to realise that the staff in the branch will have NO control over employment levels.
Skippah, Brighton says...
12:33pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Glenda wrote:Well then whoever replied would have had no control over staff levels, just a default response. But well done for going to all the effort of wasting your time writing a letter to let them know they had wasted some of your time by making you queue.
Skippah wrote:I never said that I had complained to the branch staff. This was a reply from Head Office.
Glenda wrote: How strange! Whenever I complain about the lack of staff at their Hove branch (and the resulting queues) one of their excuses is that they cannot attract applicants. Another excuse is (and bear in mind their huge profits here) that they are "waiting for the next financial year before they recruit".Or they just don't know why they are understaffed and they are just saying the first thing that comes into their heads to get rid of you so they can get back to doing their job, which is already difficult enough due to the lack of staff, which you seem to have noticed, but failed to realise that the staff in the branch will have NO control over employment levels.
Glenda, Hove says...
2:56pm Wed 10 Feb 10
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Spanners, Hove says...
3:31pm Mon 8 Feb 10
I think we all knew this already. Often it is simplified and called the "unemployement rate"....