Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank founded the Home Depot in 1978.
The two stores of the company started operating in Atlanta, Georgia, on
June 22, 1979. As of January 29, 2012, the Home Depot is world's largest
home improvement specialty full-service, warehouse-style retail stores
chain in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, selling assortment of home
improvement appliances, construction materials, lawn and garden, and
services. The stocks of the company are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange(NYSE) under acronym HD, and also included in the Dow Jones
industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes.
Home
Depot was operating 2,252 stores nationally and globally in the
beginning of 2012, which included 1,974 stores in the United States, 91
stores in Mexico, 180 stores in Canada and 7 stores in China. The
company serves three types of shoppers in the store including,
do-it-yourself (D-I-Y) shoppers, do-it-for-me (D-I-F-M) and professional
shoppers.
Career Opportunities
There are
massive employment opportunities throughout the 1,974 Home Depot stores
in the United States. In addition to more than 300,000 employees working
globally in the stores, the company is also planning to hire over
70,000 temporary workers in the United States to serve the customers in
the spring selling season.
A job applicant can submit Home Depot
Job Application for different positions in the home development
specialty Stores, Distribution Centers, Call Centers and Corporate
office of the company. The jobs can be applied by submitting an online
Home Depot Job Application, visiting career center kiosks or through the
Career Depot of the company.
Career Depot System
Career
Depot System of the company is designed to hire internal associates
wishing to apply for hourly, Stores, Distribution Centers, Retail
Management, Corporate and other positions. If you are applying jobs
through the Career Depot as a first time user, you must:
· Create a User ID and Password
· Log in
· Create a profile with past and present work experience and academic qualifications.
Applicants are also offered options to copy and paste resume and cover letter along with the created profile.
If you are an Internal User, you can log in with your existing User ID and Password.
You must also remember that the User ID remains valid for one year before it gets expired on the Career Depot.
Benefits
The
employees are offered various personal and professionals Benefits, such
as No Weekend Working - Monday through Friday work week, 401(k)
Retirement Plan, Medical and Dental Benefits and Tuition Reimbursement
for full time workers.
Salary
Home Depot
also does not offer uniform salaries to all its employees. The salaries
vary depending on numerous factors such as work position, professional
experience and volume of the business and market where the store is
located. The number of working hours for part-time positions for
seasonal employees also varies widely.