{"id":275970,"date":"2020-11-19T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=275970"},"modified":"2020-11-19T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:40:19","slug":"ikea-hiring-almost-500-staff-for-first-ph-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/19\/ikea-hiring-almost-500-staff-for-first-ph-store\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA hiring almost 500 staff for first PH store"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_275971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275971\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dsc3842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275971\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dsc3842.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dsc3842.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/dsc3842-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-275971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HIRING. IKEA Philippines team with IKEA Southeast Asia &amp; Mexico managing director Christian Rojkjaer (center). The furnishing retailer is opening 496 jobs for its first store in the Philippines in Pasay City that will open in the second quarter of 2021. (Photo courtesy of IKEA Philippines via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA is opening 496 jobs for its first store in the Philippines in Pasay City that will be its largest in the world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for many people. Creating meaningful, stable jobs and great workplaces is just one way that we fulfill this vision \u2013 more important than ever during these challenging times,\u201d IKEA Southeast Asia &amp; Mexico managing director Christian Rojkjaer said in a statement Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Among the job vacancies in IKEA Pasay City are sales associates, recovery associates, food assistants, and customer service associates, among others.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The store, which will open in the second quarter of 2021, will have a call center operation and warehouse to support its e-commerce business. The IKEA online store will commence earlier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">IKEA Philippines market development manager and store manager Georg Platzer said IKEA will be bringing home 20 overseas Filipinos working in IKEA stores mostly from the Middle East to join its team in IKEA Philippines.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFamily is very important to us, and we\u2019re glad that we\u2019re able to reunite some of our Filipino co-workers with their families in the Philippines,\u201d Platzer said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA is opening 496 jobs for its first store in the Philippines in Pasay City &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":275971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275973,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275970\/revisions\/275973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}