As the leaves fall and the temperature drops, companies are gearing up for the holiday season by posting a plethora of flexible jobs. The jobs listed below offer a variety of telecommuting options, from occasional telecommuting to 100 percent work-at-home. So if you’re looking for fun work while your kids at school, consider these eight great seasonal holiday jobs—hiring right now!
Seasonal Customer Service & Sales Consultant
Serve up smiles this holiday season by providing customers with exceptional customer service! You’ll assist customers in selecting products and gifts in addition to offering add-ons and upselling. In this part-time telecommute job, you should have strong written and verbal communication skills, and both prior work-at-home experience and contact center experience is strongly preferred.
Seasonal Chocolatiers
This is one delicious flexible job! You’ll learn about the company’s products so as to better assist customers’ queries. With the goal of suggesting the right product to fulfill their needs and create memories, you’ll be responsible for making chocolate products, maintaining visual and merchandising standards, and meet (and exceed) sales and service goals. For this part-time job, you’ll need to be flexible, especially during the holiday season, when you might work evenings or weekends.
Seasonal Order Management Coordinator
In this full-time temporary job, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the proper processing of all order management activities. In addition to promoting department goals and training all team members, you should exhibit an ownership attitude by promoting partnerships with store management. Also imperative is the ability to effectively follow up with team members and be proficient in decision-making and problem-solving. You should have a commitment to guest services, strong product knowledge, and results ownership.
Seasonal Interviewer
As a Seasonal Interviewer, you will assist the store’s executive team with facilitating the seasonal hiring process, doing so with professionalism and courteous respect towards all applicants. You will be responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience and for timely filling of all seasonal positions. You must possess strong communication skills and make sound decisions. Seasonal associates will have the opportunity to work a flexible schedule on a temporary basis, which may include early mornings, evenings, weekends and busy events such as the day after Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas.
Accounting Agent
For this full-time seasonal holiday job, you will perform the proper handling of payments including credit cards, check, money order and cash. The related accounting includes the creation of a daily sales report daily to be submitted to the Revenue Accounting team. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that all vendor information is up-to-date and you’ll assist with the proper handling of disbursements of funds to travel agents, airlines and other vendors, and ensures the accuracy of such disbursements. In addition, you’ll be responsible for communicating billing problems, errors, refunds or adjustments promptly and work towards resolution, including collection.
Marketing – Snow Reporter
Share your love of skiing and snow in the role of Snow Reporter! Create and update compelling mountain condition and resort event & activity reports for guests. You will use a variety of communication channels to keep guests updated on an ongoing basis and use your resort knowledge to ensure them the best time possible! Some of the responsibilities of this seasonal job include writing and announcing a script for taped ski reports, local radio stations and ski reporting services. You’ll also update several websites as the day’s weather conditions unfold and conduct competitive ski report surveys.
Holiday Programs Assistant
The Holiday Programs Assistant assists the Public Education staff in executing holiday family programming for visitors. Duties include greeting visitors, assisting with seating in the theater, distributing event materials, soliciting public participation, assisting with setting up, running the events, and handling after-event tasks. The ability to work well with the public and assist with events is a plus. This is a temporary part-time position and you must be available to work weekends, weekdays, and holidays.
Seasonal Tax Application Developer
As a Seasonal Tax Application Developer, you’ll assist tax developers with modifying existing tax software applications. You’ll analyze and identify product discrepancies and prepare tax returns for certification by tax authorities. For this job, you’ll need to have at least one year’s worth of experience in tax preparation, accounting, or a related discipline as well as strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. This is a full-time temporary position scheduled to run 4-5 months but has the possibility of an extension based on business needs.
Finding a flexible job that fits in with your family’s busy schedule has never been easier! So get in the holiday spirit and start your search for a seasonal job—and you’ll soon discover your name at the top of Santa’s nice list!
