Target Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Target part-time for more than a year

Pros – - Decent pay for a Casual employee
- Meet new people
- Laugh at the customers who fight over toys during toy sale

Cons – - No real training
- No task requires you to think
- Repetitive and utter lack of enthusiasm to make things interesting
- HR is non-existent (i.e. no rewards for staff)
- Management favouritism evident
- Casual workers perform better than the full-time workers
- Lack of leadership at times

Advice to Senior Management – A couple of thinks
- HR needs a lot of help
- Making 70-75% of the store is losing valuable custom, revenue and in turn the label 'department store'
- CEO needs to go on Undercover Boss urgently!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Target as an intern for more than a year

Pros – - Decent wage for the level of monotonous work with little effort required.

Cons – - Management rarely shows up to deal with angry customers when called. They will communicate over the hand phones to avoid dealing with the problem directly.
- They will purposely split the shifts in a way to avoid giving you a meal break.
- They often keep you back 10mins after work, so they don't have to pay you for 15mins overtime.
- Uninspiring attitude among most workers as it is only a temporary job for them.

Current Employee – been working at Target

Pros – Good place to meet people and build customer service skills.

Cons – Retail industry is in a hole. Lower management is very underpaid and not worth it. Opportunity to get more shifts if you're casual.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to be reasonable. Answer questions, don't just put people down for not knowing certain things. Listen to ideas and actually think about the good ones. Listen to staff who work in specific areas regularly (who can know a lot more than higher level managers about that specific area).

Former Employee – worked at Target

Pros – Friendly people to work with (on the same level as me, the managers weren't great)
Customers are generally nice and friendly

Cons – Old fashioned managers
Managers who weren't fit for the job
Staff become frantic when it's busy (peak shopping times of the year, ie christmas, easter)

Advice to Senior Management – Watch out for bullies.
I was put in serveral situations when I felt like I couldn't say "No" to overtime being asked of me, even when I had prior commitments, due to bullying manager.

Current Employee – been working at Target full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – great place to work a lot of good co workers

Cons – had to work long days not any time to get things done

Advice to Senior Management – take care of your good people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Target full-time for more than a year

Pros – Outstanding corporation to work for!

Cons – Handling work and life is hard for a full timer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Target part-time for more than a year

Pros – Very Flexable
Fun co-workers
Aggressive in wanting to promote talent
About unity of the team to work well together instead of certain individuals
Very open to cross training

Cons – Pay needs to be better, this is a whole company opinion
Work is repetitive unless cross trained

Advice to Senior Management – Raise the pay! Also, raise the discount a little. We work hard!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Target full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Target offers many development opportunities for it's team members, that being said, team members need to drive their own development which shows a desire and commitment to learning. Target also offers a work./life balance, great insurance benefits and their culture/values system is inclusive.

Cons – Executive leaders are often lacking business experience Target or other wise. They do not have management experience and that often leads to misunderstandings and hurt feelings for team members. Team Leaders are often training their new supervisors.

Advice to Senior Management – Incoming executives begin with at least 6 months of hands on Team Leader experience. Learn the Company from the trenches, explore and develop your management style before you are the final word at store level

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Target part-time for more than a year

Pros – learned small team management and how customer service works

Cons – The management system needs some work, they don't know who's in charge of what department

Advice to Senior Management – The management style needs improvement; in short, there are too many managers. They themselves don't always know exactly what sectors of business they're in charge of, and sometimes it seems to change from week to week or from day to day. For the lower level employees, it gets frustrating to take orders from various managers who of course will have different styles of work ideology and ethic. The upper level management system needs a different form, one more coherent and one that can withstand day to day changes in business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Target part-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice benefits, management and coworkers are friendly

Cons – Low pay, few promotions, boring

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend