WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000--SnagAJob.com (http://www.snagajob.com), a part-time and seasonal job site for high school and college students, announces today how it`s providing relief to understaffed retailers and cash-poor students during this holiday season.
With the nation`s unemployment rate at a record low, and the holiday craze upon us, retailers are forced to be creative in their efforts to attract and retain employees in order to adequately serve their customers. Likewise, today`s students have begun searching for new methods to assist in finding that perfect holiday job.
To combat the difficulty in obtaining qualified employees, many retailers have turned to the Internet to attract this year`s Holiday help. One company to which many retailers are turning for their seasonal staffing needs is SnagAJob.com, having recently gained several national clients such as J.Crew, Macy`s, FAO Schwarz, Play CO. Toys, Laura Ashley and Hecht`s, all of which have had overwhelming responses. J.Crew received over one thousand applications for their one hundred and five nation wide stores in their first ten days on the
Site, while FAO Schwarz has received over thirteen hundred applications in their first two weeks.
Submitting these applications are tens of thousands of students who have registered on SnagAJob.com, which debuted in May and has quickly become the nation`s largest Web site dedicated exclusively to finding part-time and seasonal jobs for students. ''Students are the prime candidates for any retailer looking to hire additional help for the holidays,'' Tennille H. Swisher, Director of Sales for SnagAJob.com. ''With holiday breaks that range from a week to over a month in length, students have time to work a part-time job and get
the much-deserved break from studying. Today`s Internet-savvy student is intelligent and resourceful; just the type of employee most companies want.''
SnagAJob.com has grown exponentially since its launch, starting out with only a handful of companies and progressing quickly into the many thousands, many of which are household names. In the past 8 weeks alone, the company has doubled its number of job listings, and increased its application growth by 60%. SnagAJob.com is in its initial planning stages of its international expansion for this spring.
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