Category Archives: Jobseekers

Sep16

Jobs from Favorite E-Retailers

By Kelley Hundahl Zocks, Manager of Program and Outreach Services, NRF Foundation | Published: September 16, 2011
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Interested in a job in e-retail? We recommend you check out the recently released NRF STORES  Magazine’s “Favorite 50″. For the fifth year in a row, STORES released their ranking of the industry’s top online retailers. This year the top five e-retail heavyweights — Amazon.com, Walmart.com, eBay.com, BestBuy.com and JCPenney.com — retained their respective positions [...]

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Aug09

Red Hot Retail Jobs

By Kelley Hundahl Zocks, Manager of Program and Outreach Services, NRF Foundation | Published: August 9, 2011
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Where can you find retail’s hottest jobs? A great place to start would be the recently released 2011 edition of NRF STORES Magazine’s “Hot 100 Retailers”. Every year, STORES ranks the top 100 fastest growing U.S. retail companies based on their annual sales growth. Among the highest-ranked this year are companies that continued to add [...]

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Apr06

Retail: an Inside Look from Assistant Manager, Loyalty for Footlocker, Inc.

By Kelley Hundahl Zocks, Manager of Program and Outreach Services, NRF Foundation | Published: April 6, 2011
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Jeffrey Neal loves retail because there is an unlimited potential of job opportunities that allow you to follow your passion. As Assistant Manager, Loyalty for Footlocker, Inc., Jeffrey chose to work for a retail company that specialized in his passion: sports. Watch our Retail: an Inside Look video and learn more about what Jeffrey has [...]

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Feb16

Showing the Love for Retail

By Angela Elder, Sr. Director of Career Development Programs, NRF Foundation | Published: February 16, 2011
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When we’ve interviewed retailers for this blog, we’ve often asked them what they love most about the industry. Many of them have mentioned the competitive and ever-changing environment, and many of them talked about winning over customers. Kip Tindell, CEO of The Container Store, says it is both of these things: “…It’s ever-changing and that [...]

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Nov18

Macy’s CEO on turning a part-time seasonal position into a full-time retail career

By Kelley Hundahl Zocks, Manager of Program and Outreach Services, NRF Foundation | Published: November 18, 2010
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Over a year ago, we highlighted an interview with Terry Lundgren, President, Chairman and CEO of Macy’s, Inc. In that interview, Mr. Lundgren shared why he loves this business. After 30 years working in retail, he said: “The constant change. You can’t stand still in retailing. You must always be innovating and pushing the envelope. [...]

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