The Home Depot to hire 225 in Dayton area

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - The Home Depot is hiring for what it anticipates to be a busy spring selling season.

Locally, 225 workers are expected to be hired to fill seasonal spots. Nationwide, the home improvement retailer plans to hire 80,000 seasonal associates.

Home Depot managers say if you are interested, now is the time to apply.

For consideration, candidates can apply for positions at http://careers.homedepot.com :

• Visit http://careers.homedepot.com
• Select “In-Store Hourly” in Dayton
• Click “Search”

For those returning military and veterans who are interested in a position, The Home Depot recently launched its Online Military Skills Translator to help match unique military skills with positions within the company. Both the skills translator and a calendar of military hiring events can be found at www.careers.homedepot.com/military .

Seasonal associates will be assigned responsibilities based on their previous retail or home improvement experience and based on the needs of individual stores.

Company officials said about half of The Home Depot’s seasonal hires transitioned into regular positions with the company last year.