Friday, December 07, 2012

It's a Sad Day When Even Santa Can't Find a Job

He’s making a LinkedIn profile. He’s checking it twice. He’s gonna find out which employers are naughty or nice. Santa Claus is coming to town – and he needs a job...

There’s no official Kris Kringle employment index, but agencies that place Santas at gigs around the country say the prospects for many of the men in red suits is Ho-ho-hopeless. “There’s no question about it, the number of Santas out there looking for work has grown,” says Jennifer Andrews, headmaster of the Santa School in Calgary, Alberta, which supplies Santas to stores and malls in the U.S. and around the world. She says enrollment increased fourfold this year. “And there’s not a lot of room for untrained Santas.”

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