Tesco to create 522 jobs!

Killer Pigeon

Sorry if this is already posted, I couldn't find any threads on it elsewhere. Tesco are to create 522 jobs in new stores between now and next June, as part of €120 million investment.

Tesco Ireland is to create 522 jobs in new stores between now and next summer, as part of a €120m investment. The company has already created 235 positions in new stores in the last four months.
Most of the new jobs will be based in Dublin and Co Kildare. The new stores to open over the next couple of months are in Cabra (150) and Rush (80) in Dublin and Kildare (120). A replacement store is also underway in Roscrea, Co Tipperary which was originally planned for last year. 60 jobs will be based here.
Seven new Tesco Express stores in Dublin and Kildare, creating 16 jobs each, will also be opened this year.
The company opened new shops in Balbriggan, Portlaoise and Celbridge earlier this year, creating 235 jobs.
Tesco also estimates 548 building jobs will be created during the expansion drive.
'This latest investment in new and improved Tesco stores once again highlights our commitment to Ireland,' commented Tesco Ireland's chief executive Tony Keohane.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0624/tesco-business.html

Does anyone know when and where to apply? Tesco's jobs website doesn't seem to have much information on them.

Krusader

How many jobs will be lost because of this!

wmpdd3

From the tEsco website:

The retailer will open four new supermarkets, as well seven Express stores in Dublin and Kildare. The new stores to be opened in the coming months, creating 522 new jobs, are at Cabra, Dublin (150), Kildare (120), Rush, Dublin (80) with a replacement store underway in Roscrea, Tipperary (60) which was originally planned for last year. There will also be seven new Tesco Express stores in Dublin and Kildare, creating 16 jobs each. An extensive upgrading programme for many existing Tesco stores around the country is also underway.

They always use a large store near to a new store to take in applications and then set up a recruitment centre closer to opening time.

Hootanany

Will the Cabra store be a Tesco Extra

Cill Dara Abu

Crosáidí wrote: »

How many jobs will be lost because of this!

Less than 522!

I do'nt get these small shop owners whinging over big super markets moving in, people are going to shop in the cheapest and most convenient places, not pay crazy prices in a small shop owned by some old biddy!

Mister Jingles

Hootanany wrote: »

Will the Cabra store be a Tesco Extra

I wouldn't be surprised, 150 seems a high number for a normal store.

Anybody know where to apply for these jobs. The Tesco jobs website seems a bit on the messy side at the moment.

Krusader

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Less than 522!

I do'nt get these small shop owners whinging over big super markets moving in, people are going to shop in the cheapest and most convenient places, not pay crazy prices in a small shop owned by some old biddy!

Yeah but their profits stay in the country, tesco's don't

byhookorbycrook

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Less than 522!

I do'nt get these small shop owners whinging over big super markets moving in, people are going to shop in the cheapest and most convenient places, not pay crazy prices in a small shop owned by some old biddy!

Tesco will close local shops and put prices back up. Tesco profits are higher in the republic than anywhere in Britian.
Likewise ruin many suppliers.

ballsymchugh

Crosáidí wrote: »

Yeah but their profits stay in the country, tesco's don't

add to that the local suppliers that won't be used by tesco. it'd be interesting to find an exact number on this.

Krusader

I'm all for big supermarkets creating jobs but they seem to just set up shop around the corner from a local shop and force them out of business

WASP0

Crosáidí wrote: »

Yeah but their profits stay in the country, tesco's don't

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Tesco will close local shops and put prices back up. Tesco profits are higher in the republic than anywhere in Britian.
Likewise ruin many suppliers.

ballsymchugh wrote: »

add to that the local suppliers that won't be used by tesco. it'd be interesting to find an exact number on this.

Why all the anti tesco sentiment? People are looking at this thread so as to see how to get one of the upcoming jobs with Tesco. Are Tesco not the largest single buyer of Irish food products in the world??

starlit

Hey, check out the Irish Tesco website, it will advertise jobs on its career website. Keep an eye out for the new jobs being listed.
Link to careers page.

http://www.tesco.ie/careers/vacancies.html

wmpdd3

The easiest way to get interviewed for a job in the new store is too look out for a poster in the nearest large store. Or hand in you CV to that store.

As I said before, they always use a large store near to a new store to take in applications and then set up a recruitment centre closer to opening time.

January

One of the express stores will be in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, construction is ongoing at the moment.

crotalus667

Crosáidí wrote: »

Yeah but their profits stay in the country, tesco's don't

Their tax does as well as the millions they are ploughing back into creating more jobs, whos to say that large irish companys profits are going to be spent in ireland ???

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Tesco will close local shops and put prices back up. .

ca you give an excample of were they have done this before ??

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Tesco profits are higher in the republic than anywhere in Britian.
Likewise ruin many suppliers.

and why is this ??? because all the other stores here are charging so much they can make these profits from bigger mark ups than they can use in the uk

Irish Fire

Crosáidí wrote: »

Yeah but their profits stay in the country, tesco's don't

Could the same not be said of any multi national?

Corsendonk

Tesco usually have set models for store openings. They usually hire more staff than needed because

• Natural Wastage- retail doesn't suit all people.
• Good publicity- it allows them to announce good news like 522 jobs even do the company knows that within 6 months they will cut that down to 400 quietly. They usually put a clause in the contract about needs of the business and review staff before the 13 weeks.

Majority of staff will be on flexible 5/7 contracts with typically 20 hours per week. You can do more than 20 hours but need to do more than 20 hours for 8 months constantly to be entitled to the hour bracket above 20 hours, 21-30 so the jobs don't suit everyone because your earning power is up and down. Usually the system would flag when someone is approaching the criteria for the hour bracket above and the employee would be dropped down to 20 hours for 2 weeks so the 8 months starts all over again.

Krusader

Irish Fire wrote: »

Could the same not be said of any multi national?

obviously

Shelflife

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Less than 522!

I do'nt get these small shop owners whinging over big super markets moving in, people are going to shop in the cheapest and most convenient places, not pay crazy prices in a small shop owned by some old biddy!

I dont have a link at the moment, but the accepted local job losses as a result of tesco supermarket opening up is 150%

This was quoted on an rte frontline/primetime documentary recently and has being the claim for years in the uk. for every 100 jobs created by tesco 150 are lost as a result in the locality/

so the answer is job losses in the area will be 783 !

gline

Do tesco offer any non customer facing positions n the back of the store? Or are you still required to do tills etc when needed?

Corruptedmorals

gline wrote: »

Do tesco offer any non customer facing positions n the back of the store? Or are you still required to do tills etc when needed?

They will not waste resources till-training every single person- but determining storeroom/floor/checkout staff is up to them anyway, unless of course you can specify on the application. It would depend on your hours- if your job is evening/night pack, you won't be till trained. Daytime floor staff- possible, some at least.

the_barfly1

Ah, yes. Tesco, they "created" 80 new jobs when they opened their new Portlaoise store, and many of those new jobs are now gone... A lot of people left because HR wouldn't sign their SW forms for working a short week, they were being given such crap hours that they were working out worse off than on welfare, and many others were deemed surplus to requirements pretty quickly too.
Well thats the local word on the street anyway.
But I'm guessing that brand new stores would be safe enough, the one here just had the staff from the old store shifted across with the few new hirees.

the_syco

gline wrote: »

Do tesco offer any non customer facing positions n the back of the store? Or are you still required to do tills etc when needed?

Most places do strong males for stocking shelves, pretty ladies/men on the tills. The exception is if you work in the back long enough, you may be seen as a good reliable worker, and trained up on the tills, for those days that someone rings in sick, you can then be put on a till.

msg11

Just to let people know, Tesco Cabra are looking for new staff. Not sure how you apply, maybe ring head office. Also the new store is not an extra as previously stated just a little larger than the current store.

Also, to answer someone's question. There are backdoor staff. You can be moved anywhere in the store. Which is a good thing in my eyes because if you work 20 hours a week out back and are trained on say the deli. You could end up covering 10 hours for someone on the deli so you come out with 30 hours pay.