how to get hired to walmart

Rob PortRob Port is the editor of SayAnythingBlog.com. In 2011 he was a finalist for the Watch Dog of the Year from the Sam Adams Alliance and winner of the Americans For Prosperity Award for Online Excellence. He writes a weekly column for several North Dakota newspapers, and also serves as a policy fellow for the North Dakota Policy Council.   •     •  

By what right do these people deny communities the jobs, goods and services the people who live in that community want?

Just how foolish it is for politicians to oppose Walmart, I think. Around the country Walmart’s efforts to build stores have been stymied by opposition from union-backed political organizations and local politicians. Yet, Walmart provides jobs that people want and need. What’s more, Walmart provides goods and services at low prices which drive down the cost of living in any community they move into.

What can we conclude from this?

In contrast, a new Walmart in Cleveland recently received 6000 applicants for 300 positions, and, not long ago, two Walmart stores in the Chicago area received 25,000 and 15,000 applications. The Cleveland store hired one in twenty applicants. The Chicago hiring rates were far more modest.

In other words, there were nearly 15 applicants for every freshman freshperson class opening at Harvard, slightly over 12 for each spot at Princeton and just under 9 at Dartmouth.

Harvard College accepted just 6.9 percent of applicants for the class of 2015, its lowest rate ever. The numbers were not much better elsewhere in the Ivies: 8.2 percent at Princeton, 11.5 percent at Dartmouth.

Not at all Walmarts, of course, but in some parts of the country Walmart’s acceptance rates for hires .

It’s Harder To Get Hired At Walmart Than Get Into Harvard

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