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Sears Home Services is Breaking Down the Recession Walls -- Committing to Hire More Techs This Year

3 min readUpdated Aug. 13, 2024Lyle WeischwillKitchen Appliances
Sears Home Services is Breaking Down the Recession Walls -- Committing to Hire More Techs This Year

Since 1962, Sears Home Services has been a leader in technician repair, support and maintenance with industry leading training and development as its backbone. This story continues as we’re bucking the recessionary trend in 2024 and announcing a commitment to hire more Repair Services and Maintenance Technicians across the United States this year.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • In the midst of a recession, Sears Home Services continues to grow and hire more appliance repair technicians.
  • Learn why a career with Sears Home Services is right for you.
  • Apply now to join the most experienced team in the home services industry.

Specialty skills we need right now include: heating and air conditioning, small engine repair, refrigeration systems, and appliance repair.

This decision to ramp up our staff is largely due to increasing demand by the consumer, unpredictable weather behavior, and customer loyalty.

Sears Home Services has been the trusted name in appliance and HVAC repair for decades, but not just for the consumer. Those who are looking to continue, grow, or even begin their career in the repair service industry, would be hard-pressed to find any other company with our level of experience, resources, and expertise to make those career goals a reality. When you’re ready, we’re here for you. Come join us. Check out Sears Home Services Careers!

What is next for Sears Home Services?

  • We're piloting a Same-Day Service model in high demand locations.
  • We’ve launched our new Sears Home Advantage program -- a free membership that gives our customers access to a new level of home service.
  • Sears Home Services is reinvesting in our technicians including generous 401k matching in 2024, enhanced benefits, paid time off days, sign-on bonuses and associate referral programs.

Sears Home Services opportunities

Why is a Sears Home Services Technician Career Right for YOU?

  • Competitive wages that reward performance and experience.
  • Bonuses and Incentives: Technicians have the opportunity to earn additional performance bonuses & sales incentives throughout the year with our top techs averaging $25,000 annually.
  • Benefits – Comprehensive set of medical, dental, and vision benefits, with an additional $4000 annual subsidy for associates with dependents!
  • 401k match – Opportunity to contribute to 401k plan with a 100% company match up to 3%.
  • Flexible schedules – Sears’s techs are NOT on call. Choose 5, 8-hour shifts or 4, 10-hour shifts (offered in most locations), whichever works better for you.
  • Plentiful overtime opportunities – Our techs are in high demand. Supplement your income with additional hours!
  • Year-round work – With Sears large scale and wide product range, Sears cross trains techs and keeps them busy year round.
  • Expert training – Best in class training program. Tens of thousands of repair techs trained by Sears Technical Institute in the past 60 years. We will teach you the skills you need to succeed!
  • Peer mentoring – Onboarding buddy and mentor technicians to help you grow your skills
  • Career advancement – Many ways to advance and cross-train to keep growing your career. Our average tenure is greater than 12 years!
  • Easy tools – Sears provides company vehicle, uniforms, specialty tools, mobile phone & industry-leading apps that eliminate paperwork and provide technical support.

Join our Sears Home Services team

If you are ready to begin a career with purpose and meaning where every day you are helping bring smiles and positive well-being to our customers, click here to apply: Sears Home Services Careers!

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Glossary Terms

Wattage is the measure of electrical power expressed in watts (W), indicating the rate at which a device consumes energy.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel used primarily for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. It's a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting mainly of methane, but it also contains smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and sometimes sulfur compounds.

A washer screw is a fastening device that combines a screw and a washer, designed to distribute the load of a screwed fastening more evenly and to prevent the screw from loosening under vibration.

A voltage meter, commonly referred to as a voltmeter, is an instrument used for measuring the electrical potential difference, or voltage, between two points in an electrical or electronic circuit.

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