Social media, training help with holiday hires

Stores increasing workforces up to 40 per cent

About 70 per cent of Future Shop’s sales happen in December. To handle this increase in demand, the retailer, which has a centralized recruiting system for its 146 stores across Canada, began its nearly six-week-long holiday recruiting at the end of September, said Chris Taylor, vice-president of human resources at Future Shop in Vancouver.

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