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Whoa! Philly Employer Hiring 1,400 People

By  VINCE LATTANZIO

Updated 8:12 AM EDT, Thu, Dec 4, 2008

Cricket Communications is looking for 1,450 new employees.

 

If you have what it takes, this could be your lucky day to land a job with a new cell phone company that's breaking into the Philly market.

In the current economy, all you seem to hear about is job cuts, downsizing and layoffs. You would never think a company would be hiring, but believe it or not one is right here in Philly.

Cricket Communications, a cell phone provider, is breaking into the Philadelphia market next year and needs to add 1,450 new employees. 250 employees would work for Cricket and 1,200 others would work for the telecom’s dealer partners.

They've already held one job fair this week. If you missed the first one, you still have one more chance:

Thursday, December 4
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown: 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Cricket is also accepting applications on it's website.

At the job fairs, the company will be recruiting for positions such as retail sales manager, assistant retail sales manager, retail store representative, customer operations manager, indirect account manager and indirect service specialist.

For more information about Cricket, click here.

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  • Jack Tuesday, Mar 10 at 2:25 PM FLAG COMMENT Dear Vince: It just breaks my heart to see 'journalists' who can't even use an apostrophe the right way: "Cricket is also accepting applications on it's website" Remember 4th grade English? There is NO apostrophe when 'its' is possessive.
  • Dave Thursday, Dec 25 at 11:05 AM FLAG COMMENT Well, it's not a scam, Worker B. My brother-in-law is working as a sub contractor (traveling from KY) on part of the installation of their equipment. They're putting their own transmitters on existing towers (leased physical space on the tower, rather than bandwidth). Now, how good their customer service will be... That's up to who signs up on this.
  • Anonymous Thursday, Dec 4 at 9:04 PM FLAG COMMENT My heart is beating so when do I start. Like the comment about being bitter lol.
  • Worker B Thursday, Dec 4 at 1:18 PM FLAG COMMENT This has "scam" all over it!
  • vERIZONwORKER Thursday, Dec 4 at 8:15 AM FLAG COMMENT iM GOING ON LUNCH BREAK TO SEE WHATS GOOD!!!!! WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE

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