{"id":519370,"date":"2010-04-07T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004243"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:50:36","slug":"home-depot-adding-new-jobs-for-first-time-since-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519370","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Adding New Jobs For First Time Since 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/homedepothiring-thumb-300x363-39033.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Looking for a job? Then this might be a bit of good news &#8212; Home Depot is so hopeful about the economic rebound that they&#8217;re adding new in-store positions for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Depot, which currently employs around 317,000 folks, made the decision to hire new employees after higher than expected sales in the fourth quarter of 2009. (And I thought I was the only one who bought his mom a bandsaw for Christmas!)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear from Home Depot CEO Frank Blake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We made a very conscious decision this year to hire into our projection&#8230; The fourth quarter was more positive than we anticipated so we revisited some of our planning assumptions toward the end of 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He did not, however, say how many new hires Home Depot plans to take on in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20100407\/BIZ\/4070341\/1001\/Home-Depot-hiring-workers\" >Home Depot hiring workers<\/a> [Detroit News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a job? Then this might be a bit of good news &#8212; Home Depot is so hopeful about the economic rebound that they&#8217;re adding new in-store positions for the first time in four years. The Depot, which currently employs around 317,000 folks, made the decision to hire new employees after higher than expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}