With Christmas, fast approaching you may be looking for a job in Stratford upon Avon over the festive period. You might be in fulltime employment and looking for a part time job or just a temporary job over the Christmas period.

As you would expect the Christmas period is a very busy time for retailers in Stratford with expected shoppers either shopping for early Christmas bargains or last minute presents for loved ones.

Shops in Stratford and general retailers normally make up to 25 to 50% of their annual retail sales over xmas so you can expect small shops as well as the larger retailers like M&S to Next and BHS and so on taking on more staff to help out at the sales point and cash registers.

A good place to start looking for your Christmas job in Stratford would be the Maybird shopping park which is located on the Birmingham road (A3400) or just off J15 off the M40 Motorway. Here you will find plenty of major retailers who may be looking for extra staff during the busy xmas period.

Marks and Spencer: The M&S simply food store is located at the Maybird Shopping park, so you may find jobs here as cashiers or simply stacking food shelves or keeping up on food inventories. Managerial jobs or supervisor positions may also be available but because xmas jobs are seasonal and are temporary such positions will probably not be available.

B&Q:Massive DIY store so loads of job opportunities from cashiers to stock inventories might be available. Plus if you knowledge of DIY and gardening products or Home and Garden products you might have a chance of getting a job in those fields

Asda Living: Once again a great place to try as jobs might be available for cashiers to stacking shelves or collecting trolleys and because Asda Living also has a clothing dept retail/warehouse jobs might also be on offer.

Boots: Boots one of the UKs top health and beauty stores so expect jobs in cosmetics to selling beauty products always a good place to try for temporary xmas jobs because of the nature of buying perfumes and beauty products as presents for loved ones for xmas.

Next: A very popular clothes store the Next store always hold last minute clothes sales at xmas and have a stock re-take in the new year, so jobs in retail and clothes sales might be available as they want to get rid of all the old stock.

Argos: Stores are always packed during the run up to and during the xmas period so it would be wise to try here as customers will be looking to buy presents and last minute bargains. Warehouse operative jobs or general counter staff jobs might be available at the Argos store.

Clarks: well known shoe retailer might be looking for extra staff a the busy till so it may be worth asking here.

Sports World: As with any sports and fitness shop they could be hiring extra staff to help with the expected influx of customers wishing to buy sports gear for xmas.

Brantano:Once again a well known stockist of men women’s and children’s clothing and shoes. Possible jobs for extra needed at the tills or helping out in the retail section

WH-Smith: A good chance of getting a job at the cash tills as WH Smith sells books,DVDs,music and magazines well worth asking here.

As well as all the retail shops at the Maybird Shopping park you also have a chance to get seasonal or xmas jobs at one of the fast food establishments at the park such as

Pizza Hut: One of the biggest Pizza Chains in the UK and the world might be looking to hire extra staff in the busy kitchens preparing the pizzas or helping out at the food counter or waiter or server jobs as well. Places like pizza hut always get very busy during the run up to and during xmas with people holding xmas parties for children and adults alike so well worth a try.

Subway: Might be hiring extra staff in the kitchens or food preparation staff.

Costa: Popular and well-known coffee house worth a try for waiter or waiter staff or the preparation of coffee and cleaning jobs might be available.

Other Stores where you can ask for jobs during xmas are located in the town centre of Stratford as well as well known High Street stores like Debenhams located at Wood street or try the BHS store and Marks and Spencer both of which are located at Bridge Street in the town centre. Large retailers like this always tend to hire temporary seasonal staff with the run up to xmas and well into the new year so well worth trying at these stores.

As mentioned before the town of Stratford has many varied shops from food and drink to gift shops and health and beauty shops.So look around in the town centre for any hiring staff notices in the windows of retailers and don’t be afraid to go into smaller shops and ask if they will be taking on staff or providing any jobs during the xmas period.

Stratford is also well known for its array of restaurants and public houses as well as fast food chains all good places to look for a job during the festive period. These establishments might be looking to hire extra kitchen staff as well as cleaning and food preparation to waiter jobs and bar staff, jobs could be available as they will become very busy during xmas.

Finally, the hospitality sector is another good choice, Stratford has many Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts dotted all around the town so places like these may be hiring for extra reception staff to kitchen and cleaning staff may be available. Other places where you can try for seasonal xmas jobs are organisations like the Royal Mail or parcel sorting offices.Sorting offices are always very busy during the run up to Christmas with all the extra influx of letters and parcels and hire casual staff to help with the extra load. So there are plenty of places in Stratford upon Avon where you could get that job over the xmas period and maybe even beyond.