Tesco Festive Christmas seasonal job

Hello,
I got the offer of a festive job within a tesco extra, i have my induction on saturday. Any tips on what to do, to increase my luck of getting a permanent position?
I’m balancing it out with college.
Edit: My contract ends on boxing day.

Thanks.

@Josh0001 what did you put on the application to get an offer, I didn’t realise it would be so hard 😭 Like lots of work experience ? Or CV tips? Maybe they just don’t hire 17 year olds ???
Also congrats on the offer 👏

@Josh0001 what did you put on the application to get an offer, I didn’t realise it would be so hard 😭 Like lots of work experience ? Or CV tips? Maybe they just don’t hire 17 year olds ???
Also congrats on the offer 👏

@Josh0001 what did you put on the application to get an offer, I didn’t realise it would be so hard 😭 Like lots of work experience ? Or CV tips? Maybe they just don’t hire 17 year olds ???
Also congrats on the offer 👏

Hello,
I got the offer of a festive job within a tesco extra, i have my induction on saturday. Any tips on what to do, to increase my luck of getting a permanent position?
I’m balancing it out with college.
Edit: My contract ends on boxing day.

Thanks.

Hello Josh 😊😊
Congratulations for getting a job with Tesco.

So the best advice I can give you for a good opportunity to be offered either a extension contract or permanent job offer is :-
1) always be prompt on arriving for your shift starting time - arrive in plenty of time to give yourself a opportunity to perhaps have a cuppa before you start work.

2) always do whatever you are asked to do and avoid perhaps moaning too much about why was something not done prior to you doing it 😞 ( sometimes there's reasons why it was not done - perhaps those who should have done it was called away to do something else as more important).

3) do your best to get on with other staff and of you have any concerns about other colleagues not doing there work and asking you to do it then you should say no and discuss it with your immediate supervisor or team leader and if not satisfy with there response then there's always the on duty manager. Don't tackle them and get yourself in trouble okay.

4) unfortunately with the job only being temporary there's always the risk of you not being kept on after the contract end date but if you show everyone ( team leader, your department supervisor) how good a worker you are then hopefully they will put a word in with the manager about you so that when hopefully you have a review meeting ( roughly a week before your contract finishes) with the manager they will go through everything with you and say to you that they are offering you a extension of another month or two or permanent position. Each store has allocations for some of the temporary Xmas staff to be offered a permanent contract while some will be offered a extension and rest are told sorry 😔 you been let go.
With you working with a big store then there's a good opportunity you could get a permanent job because they are increasing the amount of permanent staff over the coming months so just make sure that you are doing everything as requested and don't take any sick time of as that will go against you.

In the meantime I'll suggest you keep looking at the available job vacancies in the store you are working in and apply nearer time of your contract ending hoping you will get something from either one.

I know that the store I'm in are hoping to keep on around 50 - 75% of the temporary Xmas staff with permanent positions with rest getting a extension of few months before being released 😔.

Hello,
I got the offer of a festive job within a tesco extra, i have my induction on saturday. Any tips on what to do, to increase my luck of getting a permanent position?
I’m balancing it out with college.
Edit: My contract ends on boxing day.

Thanks.

Thank you so much for taking the time for such a long response, I'll try my best. Do you know when you get the Tesco shift login details to the app? Would it be a week after your first shift or straight after induction?

You are welcome and wasn't any problem okay responding.

Yes that's all you can do is your best.

Usually you won't get that details until you receive your first pay ( next pay day is about 8th December)as you'll need your payroll number plus active email address but you can ask them on Saturday if they are able to give you that information but I don't think so.

Understood, thanks a lot.

Do you think we will have uniform since we are just temporary and on tills? Someone mentioned wearing Christmas jumpers, but wondering what you think?

Hi
You might be given the normal uniform even if you are temporary staff but like you said you might also get the Xmas t-shirts and a jumper instead and you won't know until you are given whatever it is when you start.
Each individual store managers has there own opinion on what uniforms staff should wear.

Hi Tracy
I currently work in a Tesco as a festive colleague but for my manager said I will be paid for the induction and she gave me a clicking card on induction but I forgot to click the card when I was leaving from induction will I still get paid?

Hi
Good to hear you have a temporary festive colleague position with Tesco and hopefully you are enjoying it so far.
I would suggest that you speak to the manager regarding issues with clocking in and out card ( it's easily done with forgetting to clock out after shifts) , 😕 the manager will have to manually adjust your working hours on computer for the day you forgotten to clock out so that you'll be paid. Do so as soon as you possibly can ok as don't leave it for whenever you are next working.
After you speak to your manager and they sorted it out for you make sure you always clock in and out each day plus check your payslip when you are due to be paid to make sure it is through for you as if not Aga you'll have to speak to your manager about it.
I would hope that the manager will put through everyone who was doing induction same time as yourself but as a caution discuss it asap with the manager or duty manager.

Ok thanks for your response I will do but in my calendar it says 8th will be my pay day which is this Friday but I got shift Saturday and Sunday

Hi
You are welcome 🤗 for previous response ☺️ ☺️
Yeah Friday is this month payday for staff, you are paid every four weeks.
You have a week cutoff date for to be paid anything this month.
Okay, so you are not back in Tesco until the weekend - if it was possible for you to Pop in prior to then and speak to your manager about it then it would be great but if not then leave it until Saturday and discuss it with them then okay. You won't be paid for it this month now as it will be put through for next month but keep eye on your payslip over the next month or so to make sure you are paid for that day. ( You could ask if they can basc pay it to your bank account but they might say no).
When did you start work with Tesco ? If it was before 31st October then anything you have worked should be paid in this week's pay and you'll get anything after that day next month. Remember that the cutoff point for each month payments is a week prior to pay day ( just for future payments ok ).

Hi Tracy I just got my payslip and I got the money for induction but 90 is deducted from my pay from PAYE and I am only working part-time and earning less then 9000 a year so do you have any idea what to do please?

Could it be that you are on emergency tax code as HMRC should refund it in your next payslip once they receive the information from Tesco.
Failing that you could phone HMRC yourself and get it sorted out.
Your tax code should be 1257L ( that's £12,570 for your personal allowance for the year before tax as you only earning under £9000 you said ). If your tax code is different from this then you must be on emergency tax until it sorted out.
Next payday is 9th December - you won't know until then if HMRC has sorted it out for you but if not then contact HMRC as soon as possible after you receive your next payslip from Tesco ok.