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Home Depot Human Resources Address
October 27, 2017
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The Home Depot is alms acceptance a adventitious to appearance the approaching of retail through its summer internship program, which jumped 15 spots this ages on Vault's anniversary 50 Best Internships list. The affairs has become one of the best different and approved internship adventures in American business, and there's still time to administer for summer 2018.
Last year, about 80 percent of The Home Depot's interns accustomed offers to break with the company. But the antagonism is boxy - added than 20,000 acceptance activated for 240 positions. About 98 percent of the interns - acceptance from aristocratic schools like Harvard, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia - said they had a favorable experience.
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The interns administer awful arresting projects in assorted genitalia of the company, from Information Technology and Merchandising to Marketing and HomeDepot.com. Many assignment anon with Home Depot's controlling administration aggregation and all interns accept approved affairs with the C-Suite.
'It's a dynamic, agitative abode to be,' said Evie Owens, a second-year Merchandising intern and chief business above at Georgia Tech. 'My administrator gave me a activity that was actual important to the aggregation and the assets to run with it. Then, they took my recommendations and absolutely implemented them.'
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Two years ago, CEO Craig Menear challenged a aggregation of interns to anticipate the approaching of Home Depot big box food and present their account to the company's lath of directors. Today, their assignment has appear to activity through customer-friendly improvements like wayfinding solutions and lighting enhancements that can be apparent at the 'Store of the Future' in Kennesaw, GA.
Other intern innovations accommodate a VR appliance featured at SXSW 2017 that simulates administration centermost environments and a analysis analysis apparatus that helps HomeDepot.com optimize its artefact pages for shoppers.
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'This is not your boilerplate internship acquaintance with coffee runs and archetype machines,' said Arlette Guthrie, carnality admiral of Human Assets and an alum of the internship program. 'We're borer into this basin of aristocratic aptitude and avant-garde thinkers to advice us break on the arch bend of retail. We appetite our interns to jump into our apple and get their easily dirty.'
Watch the video beneath to apprentice added about the program, or acceptance can analysis out opportunities and administer online at careers.homedepot.com/campus. In the advancing months, The Home Depot will additionally column a alternation of belief on Built From Scratch highlighting assorted internship roles beyond the company.
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