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Old 02-25-2010
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The Facebook group says May 27th is the Grand Opening!
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Old 02-25-2010
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I heard that the tentative opening date is May 27!
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Old 02-25-2010
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It was in the newspaper....Hiring 100 people 11$-22$ depending on position and experience. They also look for people with lengthly job reports because they don't like turn around, that is why they pay so much to start. They like to keep people for a long period of time instead of people jumping from job to job. This I heard from someone that works in the moncton store...
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Old 02-26-2010
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Newspaper yesterday said May 27th....I'm really looking forward to it.
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Old 02-26-2010
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The job fair starts at the new store in Eastpoint on March 5th between 10 in the morning and 8:00 at night, March 6th between 10 in the morning until 5PM and the 7th from 10 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon.
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Old 02-26-2010
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may 27
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Old 02-28-2010
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CHSJ news actually says that the job fair starts at different times.

Friday March 5 10-8
Saturday, March 6 10-5
Sunday, March 7 10-3

just thought Id let you know. :0)

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Job Fair for the new costco:

Friday, March 5 12-8
Saturday, March 6 9-5
Sunday, March 7 9-3
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Old 03-02-2010
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according to the Costo Website
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Old 03-05-2010
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Was anyone able to get in today? We went around 2 pm and was told to come back tomorrow
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Old 03-05-2010
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They stopped letting people in around noon.. We got there around 1045 and didnt sit down to be interviewed til closer to 4.
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Old 03-05-2010
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They stopped letting people in around noon.. We got there around 1045 and didnt sit down to be interviewed til closer to 4.
In other words.....take food and drinks with you as well as someone to stand in line with you to hold your place if you have to go potty!!!
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Old 03-06-2010
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ewww...I might be out of luck, I can't go til noon Saturday because I am working, and I can't go Sunday at all for the same reason.
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Old 03-06-2010
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they have a box you can drop your resume in. It takes so long because they interview on the spot and its suppose to be only 3 questions they ask.. Mine was the entire booklet of questions(3 pages) Good sign right? lol
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ok, so....I got there at 1 PM on Fri, after reading on the web site that the doors would open at 10 AM and then finding out that was a misprint and they really opened at noon, and was told they were full for the day. Was told to come back on Sat., and the doors would "open at 9 AM". I got there at 7:50, and was told they were full for the day, come back Sunday.
I asked the guy at the door, the same guy, why he told me that the doors would open at 9 AM if they were going to open them early.
He said "well, people were lining up at 6:30" So?! Do like other big name stores, and on the first day, give out tickets to the people who couldn't get in, so they had a chance the next day. That is fair all around. Some people could only come on certain days, at certain times, had to get babysitters, etc.
don't tell the applicants one thing and do another.
that's nuts.
It is a big chain, lots of grand openings in the past. They should know how to staff for a job fair by now
For a new store in town, to have a huge job fair (that is not even hiring ANY full time jobs), they are already leaving a bad taste in people's mouths.
in my humble opinion
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Old 03-06-2010
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I figure if you wait until about the middle of June you probably will get hired right away..half of the staff will probably be quitting by then as that is what happens in a lot of new retail businesses.
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they have a box you can drop your resume in. It takes so long because they interview on the spot and its suppose to be only 3 questions they ask.. Mine was the entire booklet of questions(3 pages) Good sign right? lol
Wow! I would say so!! good luck! did they tell you they'd try to find a place there?
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Soooooo, zero point in dropping by after I get off work at 1 today?????
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i showed up at 8:30 and they told me to try again tomorrow.I then asked if I could drop off my resume and he said they already had 3000 so there was no point.What kind of job fair is this?IMO the people who put this together seem to have no idea what they are doing.
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It does sound as if they had NO idea the demand in SJ for jobs that pay a living wage. Perhaps they should have accepted resumes online first in a less physically confrontational manner, and then held a job fair for what they couldn't fill. This wasn't a job fair with departments short-listing candidates for actual interviews, like bakery staff with cooking training, cleaning staff with institutional experience etc; this sounds like a cattle call for first in, most desperate.
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Old 03-06-2010
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They must have had an idea..they opened BOTH days way before they were supposed too, were rude on how they approached the other candidates telling them they were full up...forgetting these people are their potential customers in the future..
We have their Ontario email and will be writing a letter concerning the issues.
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