Microsoft Now Hiring Staff for Retail Stores
Microsoft is now hiring retail staff to man the stores it plans to open this fall.
Microsoft has started recruiting employees for the company's brick and mortar stores that will start cropping up over the news few months. The company has announced via the MicrosoftJobsBlog that it is now hiring staff to fill a number of positions in its Mission Viejo, CA and Scottsdale, AZ stores.
Posts listed include, full time and part time Retail Customer Service Associates, Retail Inventory Associates and Retail Technical Advisors. So what is required of applicants hoping to secure themselves a position in one of the stores? Well, those of you applying for customer service, inventory or technical advisor positions must be able to lift and carry 75 pounds. Sales associates, retail associates and assistant store managers must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds.
If you're interested in applying you can check out the full post on the MicrosoftJobsBlog by clicking here. All of the positions listed above (and a few more) can be found there along with links to the relevant job requirements.
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valcron They could save so much money by just providing digital download versions of everything and just advertising it in stores...seriously who is going to go to a MS store (much less brick and mortar which are going away fast) who doesn't already know what they are looking for.Reply -
chuckdalton They should open a fast food restaurant next, I sure would go for aReply
Vista burger right now with a large portion of zune fries!! -
nonxcarbonx It would be nice to have someone else go through my operating system, manually looking up and disabling my unnecessary services.Reply
I hope they really give apple a run for their money. -
doc70 75 lbs? man, that's a heavy OS.../joke.Reply
but hey, at least they're employing some people, as opposed to laying them off; anything helps.. -
valcron doc7075 lbs? man, that's a heavy OS.../joke.but hey, at least they're employing some people, as opposed to laying them off; anything helps..Reply
True true. But didn't they just lay off a bunch of people because their "profits" were not as high as they expected. Could be wrong but I think that is what I read.