
Holiday Helper
Part-timeClinton, CTPart-time$16–18.25/hrPosted 4 days agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Holiday Helper serves as a customer-facing representative in a Carter’s retail store, assisting families with products and shopping needs. The role includes customer service, point-of-sale transactions, replenishment, shipment tasks, and communicating promotions and loyalty programs. Candidates should bring a positive, solutions-oriented mindset, customer engagement skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks. The position requires lifting up to 40 pounds and standing or walking for extended periods.
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Full job description
If you are a CURRENT Carter’s employee, do not apply via this external application. Search "Browse Jobs" in Workday to apply internally.
Love what you do. Carter’s Careers. As a Holiday Helper, you will be the first face of the brand for growing families. The first to congratulate new parents and grandparents, introduce them to our new baby essentials, help them prep for their first day of school. Plus all the big and little moments of their parenting journey. You’ll join a welcoming and inclusive environment that values and optimizes skills and talents.
What we love about Carter’s: Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, SkipHop and Little Planet brands. Carter’s is the #1 most-purchased children’s clothing brand. We’ve become an industry leader by providing quality — from the first Original Bodysuit® to the lasting careers we offer our team. We’ve kept our close-knit culture since our founding, and we invest in our teams with training and development programs, so we all succeed together. A Carter’s career doesn’t feel like a job. It feels like connections, between customers, teams and families. Caring, teamwork, flexibility, and growth are what make us different. What’s not to love?
Benefits we love:
Schedules that fit your life. Our hours of operation allow you to balance work and personal activities - whether you have class, enjoy a morning workout, or manage carpool.
A 30% discount on our brands, referral bonuses, and much more!
What you’ll do:
Confidently and proactively resolve issues for customers and balance a number of customers in a busy retail environment
Welcome customers with a warm greeting and provide assistance with our product styles, features and benefits
Meet customer needs by utilizing omnichannel as needed to ensure a positive shopping experience
Execute and expedite point of sale/register transactions
Complete floor replenishment and shipment as needed
Articulate current promotional events and the brand loyalty program, including credit, to customers
Minimize store loss by providing exceptional customer service and maintaining a safe, clean store
Qualities we’d love in a candidate:
A positive and solutions-oriented mindset
Demonstrated customer service/engagement skills
Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills
The ability to manage multiple tasks at once
A relative in a management role at this store location
You can:
Lift 40 pounds as needed, with frequent bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, and pulling
Stand or walk for extended periods of time; climb up and down a ladder
Provide availability that may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays as scheduled
Carter’s for all: Carter's is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. (Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran).
Additional information: Applications will be accepted until at least 3 days after the posting date. Carter's does not use AI to make any decision in our hiring process.
NOTE: This job description is not all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description. Carter’s may reasonably alter your duties, responsibilities, job title, and location.
*Source: Circana/ Consumer Tracking service, U.S. dollar share, 12 months ending September 2023.
Compensation for this position ranges from $16.00 - $18.25 per hour based on experience and location.
Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 7,769 open Retail Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$16–18.25/hr
- Connecticut median$17–21/hr57 hourly ranges
- US median$17–20/hr3,397 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $17.13/hr, is 13% below the Connecticut median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Retail Sales hourly ranges in Connecticut.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 86 open Retail Sales jobs in Connecticut and 7,769 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Connecticut
- Dick's Sporting Goods8 open
- Genuine Parts / NAPA7 open
- Nordstrom6 open
- Experience
- Retail Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,624 postings).
- Education
- 26 of the 7,769 open Retail Sales jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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