Christmas work.

Monkey09

Hi,
I'm looking for some advice on getting a christmas job. Has anyone got any ideas on where to apply or what places are actually looking for staff?? I'm a first year college student so i'm just looking for something for a few hours really for a week or two. I'm living in Dublin so something in town would be really handy! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Gavin "shels"

Thrown a few around myself and the only replies have been no, same sitution as yourself.

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Google, job sites, go into places. Nobody will do it for you. How are you going to get through 4 years of college, wow...

Basically your post translates into "looking for job in dublin, help"...???

markmoto

search jobs .ie is pretty good for temporary xmas work

poppet84

Try next!

I had an interview with them yesterday and was told they are looking for alot of staff!

Good Luck and be prepared to work christmas eve, st stephen's dat etc

coxy14

+1 Next....had an interview with them today. Check out their website...application form is really easy and they've got sales consultant and stockroom assistant positions all around the city.
Got my fingers crossed

poppet84

coxy14 wrote: »

+1 Next....had an interview with them today. Check out their website...application form is really easy and they've got sales consultant and stockroom assistant positions all around the city.
Got my fingers crossed

Ah I'd say you did.I think I got it....once she asked me my date of birth because you can't ask that unless you've got the job...something to do with discrimination?!

It was all so casual though, I wasn't sure walking out!;)

Brimmy

poppet84 wrote: »

Ah I'd say you did.I think I got it....once she asked me my date of birth because you can't ask that unless you've got the job...something to do with discrimination?!

Of course you can ask someone's age before giving them a job. If they're underage they may not be able to work certain hours that you need etc. Much like you can ask for ethnicity or religion as well to keep a record of applications and prove you're an equal rights employer. It's not illegal to ask, it's only illegal to deny someone a job based on their answer.

Good luck either way

jimoc

I thought it was against the law to ask someone for any personal information such as DOB, religion etc during an interview?

I could of course be wrong, I know for sure though its not wrong to record it if its offered by the interviewee, but you cant specifically ask for it.
I know one of the recruitment agencies I worked with before asked us to remove the ability to search for DOB on our software because they had been told that having the ability to search on someones DOB was against the law.

Its all a bit of a grey area I think.

Monkey09

Hey,
Thanks for the advice. I'd be really interested in working in Next. Any idea where i can get the application form. I can't seem to find anything to do with jobs on the website. Thanks alot!

Monkey09

coxy14 wrote: »

+1 Next....had an interview with them today. Check out their website...application form is really easy and they've got sales consultant and stockroom assistant positions all around the city.
Got my fingers crossed

Hey,
Thanks for the advice. I'd love to work in Next actually. Any ideas where i can get the application form. I've been on the website but i can'y seem to find anything on christmas staff. Thanks alot!

xdirtydiscox

Monkey09 wrote: »

Hey,
Thanks for the advice. I'd love to work in Next actually. Any ideas where i can get the application form. I've been on the website but i can'y seem to find anything on christmas staff. Thanks alot!

Hey! Just Google "Next Jobs" & it should come up

Slippers

Vacancies in Dublin here

Search for a different town here

coxy14

Monkey09 wrote: »

Hey,
Thanks for the advice. I'd love to work in Next actually. Any ideas where i can get the application form. I've been on the website but i can'y seem to find anything on christmas staff. Thanks alot!

Just follow the link below...type in dublin and the available positions should come up!
http://careers.next.co.uk/retail/retailvacancies.aspx

poppet84

Brimmy wrote: »

Of course you can ask someone's age before giving them a job. If they're underage they may not be able to work certain hours that you need etc. Much like you can ask for ethnicity or religion as well to keep a record of applications and prove you're an equal rights employer. It's not illegal to ask, it's only illegal to deny someone a job based on their answer.

Good luck either way

No You are allowed to ask if they are over 18 but not allowed to ask your actual date of birth.It is apparently discrimination.The person interviewing me told me this afterwards!!!