I hope the Sears experience works out for you. Around here people question the sanity of someone working for Sears. You are assumed to have been desperate for job and assumed to have only been given increased responsibility because there was no one else. The company is failing so what you learned in not necessarily trusted to be valuable.
Not saying it's a career killer but Sears doesn't have the cache that a Macy's has to somewhat insulate it even though Macy's seems similar at this point.
@1snj nope, she was an independent consultant with no ties to sears or k-mart. The work I do is completely relevant to the 21st century. I just need Sears to make it to 2019 and I can easily get another job in my field. I have gotten more experience in the last few months than I did in the last 2 years at another job. Which was with a fortune 500 company.
1icq, was that " seasoned hr professional " a Sears or Kmart hack? What else could they say? From personal experience...that is a lie. Skills with equipment and processes from the 1980's is irrelevant. The corporate trolls on here are sounding more ridiculous with every post they make. I guess that's what desperation does...
@1iwk After the big layoff last year, they moved some low-wage call center jobs to HE that had previously been located elsewhere in the country. There were posts about it here at the time, including someone who said they worked at HE seeing the new call center reps hanging out in the parking lot before work in the morning, smoking weed.
But they have not made enough replacement jobs at HE to keep the tax credit, as several recent threads have discussed, they have lost it since some time last year.
Has anyone on here interviewed while working for Sears? As a recent hire? Not as a long term employee. The responses you've gotten shows the marketplace attitude. Either way.
I've always wondered what Sears might have done to maintain their minimum quota of 4500 employees at HE in order to keep their tax break. Did they replace the well-paying jobs with low-wage ones? Did they swap out a few analysts, marketing specialists and accountants for some minimum wage cafeteria workers and janitors to keep their tax break?
Simple - just replacing expensive veterans with cheaper newbies
-fmj, You’re killing me - ”this company will turn a profit this year” - really?! When it hasn’t turned one in 9 years?! Pretty sure you’re Eddie because he’s the only one delusional to think that’s possible.
Happens everyday. Get experience and move on.
@nki I actually talked with a seasoned HR professional about it and taking a job with Sears will not be an issue later on in your career. If you are a younger employee it's all upside, you get experience that you most likely wouldn't get else where. If Sears turns around then you will move up and if it doesn't you get skills that other corporations need.
@nki Come on......That is not the truth at all.
"In any transformation.....".....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Even if you desperately need a job, you should not start working at Sears unless it is your only option. When looking for a job later, employers are going to question your decision making skills and judgment because you started working there in 2018. You will get no credit for the skills you gain on the job there too because the company is failing in a very public manner.
The company is not respected and you, the new employee, will be devalued in the workforce later by association.
An analogy is how someone who attended a for profit college is viewed. The person may be fine and may have learned something for their degree but they are tainted and discounted by association with school that no one respects.
@fmj Good for you for being positive. I laugh at the person who said why would anyone apply to Sears. Perhaps they need a job......It's as simple as that. And unfortunately there are always times when there are layoffs and then people are hired. Doesn't make it right, but it's how businesses work.
It's 2 low paid new people doing the job of 4 people. Hired to try to keep things glued together but I don't know why you'd want to be one of those 2 people. Anything else would be better. You look crazy starting to work there right now. Bad for the resume.
No surprise if you think about it. They cut 4 positions in my store when the cuts happened. They have 2 openings with less pay, less benefits, less hours and with the same or even more work load in the end of the day.
New hires have less potential to benefits and will have bottom of the barrel wages.
Even if I was unemployed, I'd sure as hell would not even consider applying for anything Sears related.
@ -fmj
"Remember I said it!"
Okay, Mr. Anonymous. Whatever you say. We'll revisit your take at the end of the 2018 fiscal year and see about that profit for SHLD. By the way, its stock is 2.18 as of this minute, per NASDAQ.
Job's, Job's, jobs!! The see guys know how to program robots.
I don't work for SHLD, but have been through this situation elsewhere, and that's completely normal. Needs change, other people quit, the business needs have to be met. That being said, what kind of complete moron do you have to be to go work there now? Feel sorry for them.
In any transformation, you have to let go of people that are not a part of the transformation and hire people that can get you there. It's common sense. Someone laid off as a district manager, can't be moved to IT as a programmer. We need to get the right people for the right jobs! I watch this site daily, and for many things it's just a bunch of doom and gloomers.....but pay attention to what is happening, instead of just throwing out nonsense. This company will turn a profit this year. I don't see popcorn saying that. Remember I said it!