The Home Depot

I have been working for the Home Depot for 16 months. Currently I am enrolled at UCF for my MBA. Store management pride themselves about earning a good income without a college degree. They do not develop nor coach college students at the store that I work at.

The training program for The Home Depot cashiers is about 2-3 days of shadowing then being shadowed by a more trained employee then every month there are online programs that take maybe 5-10 min that you do during your shift.

The main qualities or experiences that you should highlight in an interview for a cashiering position at The Home Depot would be that you are a hard worker, honest, and have values. Being hardworking shows you’ve got work ethic, honesty and portrayal of values show that you should and can be trus...

There is definitely a strong sense of teamwork. We all work as a team to ensure customers are 100% satisfied from the time they enter the door until they leave the register. It's okay to not have the right answer all the time. When I get stuck, I can easily ask a fellow cashier or call an associa...

One must definitely have a smile and be professional. Being able to keep a good conversation with a recruiter shows promise that you will help customers as you walk through the aisle. The Home Depot recruiters look for someone who is outgoing and that are willing to learn valuable information fro...

As a cashier, I ensure customers are cared for professionally during the checkout process by addressing any unmet needs. I scan accurately by looking inside and under the cart in order to scan each individual item. Additionally, I try to exceed company’s credit card promotion by asking customers ...

To succeed at The Home Depot, workers need to take the initiative to learn. Learning a little about each department will help customers greatly and the worker less dependent on coworkers. Engaging with customers and being willing to help is also another way to succeed. You want to provide excepti...

It would depend what job opportunity the applicant is applying for. I would ask job specific questions such as what are my daily tasks going to include? What are some learning curves I’m going to go through? What are some things I can do now to better prepare me for my first day?

So I worked at Home Depot as a summer job, usually under 40 hours a week. So the work-life balance was pretty flexible; if you want extra hours, there are usually people who wouldn't mind you taking over their shift. Management will probably confine you to a max of 40 hours a week (otherwise they...

THD is an AMAZING place to jump start a career. You may start out as a Logistics Analyst and realize immediately you're in the right company, right department, and right team. If you don't feel that way, there are myriad departments at THD that are very easy to lateral or move up into once you'...

The possible career paths for Social Work-MSW is Children and Family; that is taking care of the entire family as household. MSW- Social Worker can work in the Human Resources Department , and Cooperate Affair of The Home Depot.

Sales experience, particularly in-person, whether that be door to door, business to business, or retail. I would also emphasize customer relations and satisfaction, HDE is technically a separate corporate entity from Home Depot itself but you wear an apron just like all other Home Depot employees...

Training takes place for a week in Atlanta where you will learn how to price home improvement projects, create value in your pitch, and learn all about HDE products.

At the Home Depot where I worked, there was no mentorship program at the time and I don't believe such a program existed prior. Again, I want to note that I simply worked as a retail associate at the time; depending on the type of position that you are applying for (i.e., financial analyst, strat...

You need to be able to handle more than one task at a time, efficiently and to switch between tasks easily. You must be comfortable dealing with very upset or even confrontational customers or at least be able to conduct yourself professionally when faced with downright disrespect. You must be ab...

I would say that your mechanical aptitude and customer service ability under stress are the two biggest strengths you could bring to the table. There is a decent possibility that the person interviewing you doesn't know the department very well, so they will be looking for those two qualities bec...

Depending if you are part-time or full-time, a work-life balance should be fairly easy to maintain. This is not a job that comes home with you and typically once you clock out you are done for the night. The store I worked at was very understanding of my scheduling needs and I had no issues balan...

Cashier Supervisors basic duties involve solving problems for cashiers. Basically, there are 4-5 of us employed at any given store. Someone gets there in the morning and collects money from the vault, sets up all the registers, and writes the break schedule for the day. Throughout the day, we hol...

I got paid 11.25 while I was there, but that was a couple years ago so its most likely risen by now. My guess, closer to 12.50 or 13.

With my time at The Home Depot, I loved my coworkers. The Home depot has a really family like employee base, and that was a great. The home depot also has an extremely extensive online training program, I spent about a month in the beginning learning about home depot, the industry, how to handle ...