topic Re: New Host Position Recruitment in Q Talk

New Host Position Recruitment

They CallMe MRWILKES — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:18:58 GMT

Casting Call: This week, we’re helping QVC and HSN find a new full-time host for one of their programs!

ACT QUICKLY! TELL YOUR STORY!

Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025

Starting Annual Salary: $150,000

February 26. 2025

Join our dynamic team at QVC and HSN as we seek full-time Hosts. As world leaders in video commerce, we offer video-driven shopping experiences across linear TV, e-commerce sites, digital streaming, and social platforms.

Key Qualities/Skills We Are Looking For:

Masterful Storytellers:
- Your ability to weave compelling narratives around lifestyle products is crucial. This involves using both long and short-form content to engage your audience effectively.
- Your storytelling should be vibrant and confident, effectively showcasing product features and benefits.
Multimedia Proficiency:
- Candidates need to be comfortable engaging audiences across television, live streaming, and digital platforms. This means you should be versatile in adapting your style to different media formats and platforms such as social media.
Building Trust and Influence:
- Establishing authenticity and sincerity with viewers quickly is necessary. Your engagement should foster trust and build relationships with audiences across diverse platforms.
- Proven success in developing and maintaining a loyal following or audience, whether on digital, social, or broadcast platforms.
- Demonstrate the capacity to communicate effectively and persuasively, guiding audience opinions and actions while remaining authentic and transparent.

Adaptability and Quicking:
- Ability to think on your feet and keep the audience engaged through improvisation and spontaneous interaction.
- A natural curiosity and motivation to learn new things and innovate in presenting products.
Relatability and Inspiration:
- Bring your wealth of lived experiences to the role, exuding a relatable persona that inspires and connects with a wide audience.
- A genuine enthusiasm and zest for life, engaging authentically with viewers.

Requirements:

Location and Flexibility:
- The position is based in West Chester, PA, and requires willingness to relocate if necessary.
- Availability to work various shifts, including nights and weekends, is essential.

How to Apply:

Interested individuals should prepare and submit:
- A letter of interest.
- Current resume.
- A photo or headshot.
- Video links that exhibit your hosting capabilities

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Caaareful Shopper — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:55:25 GMT

Jennifer Coffey posted this same host recruitment "casting call" yesterday. She's offering her services to coach prospective applicants:

"Here's your chance, future hosts! Email me if you would like coaching or rehearsals before you try out." ~ Jennifer

She posts her email on her Instagram personal account (not the jennifer coffey style account).

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

They CallMe MRWILKES — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:20:48 GMT

Interesting.

I would think that recruitment now is much different than back in Jennifer's day. She had traditional retail experience which really isn't valued anymore.

They clearly want someone with a large existing social media following for programming designed specifically to those platforms.

Huge demand for the specialized social media platform content.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

kaydee50 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:21:55 GMT

Masterful Storytellers!!!! What a hoot!

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Bookplate — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:28:22 GMT

I would think that anyone who is going to be "influenced" by a 20 year old is already on Tiktok and Instagram and wouldn't look at their grandmother's shopping platform if it was giving stuff away.

I also wonder if many of the HSN staff won't move to Pa. and that is why they need to recruit.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Elsie299 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:32:44 GMT

"Adaptability and Quicking"

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

They CallMe MRWILKES — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:32:50 GMT

That's one of my guesses:

A number of veteran, seasoned HSN hosts are not relocating.

Lots of new content needs to be produced and created so new talent is needed with that expertise.

Some veteran QVC hosts may be moving on, for one reason or another.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

We rescue cats — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:41:55 GMT

And QVC may be thinking of tapping the ShopHQ talent if they have not done so already-they had some really good ones but I don't know if they would be happy with the like atmosphere at the Q, my other thought was already mentioned-I imagine a lot of the HSN hosts are not ready to move to PA. If I did not live here I probably would not be making the move either, but they might test the waters since the weather is improving at this time of year. I find the HSN hosts to be much easier to watch and to be better sales people than QVC's.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Estellee — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:47:19 GMT

I am also wondering if a few of QVC senior hosts are planning to retire this year. Unfortunate for HSN hosts that are not relocating but it is creating jobs for others that want it.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

LindaSal — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:52:29 GMT

I keep thinking how interesting this will be down the road. Lot's of changes coming and it just won't be the same. Of course that's just me.... I agree that most HSN hosts may not be willing to relocate and we'll have many new hosts and possibly some older hosts skypeing in, but I feel that may be short lived. Kind of sad to see this happen but things change in life.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Venezia — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:53:15 GMT

LOL - "quicking"?

I put this into an online dictionary and came up with "Did you mean bricking?"

So now QVC is making up words? I wonder if they could explain exactly what they mean by that requirement? And who wrote it? A nineteen-year-old?

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Bookplate — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:58:52 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
LOL - "quicking"?

I put this into an online dictionary and came up with "Did you mean bricking?"

So now QVC is making up words? I wonder if they could explain exactly what they mean by that requirement? And who wrote it? A nineteen-year-old?

@Venezia Or AI? Maybe it's a contraction of "quick thinking"?

Hello, proofreader, editor, anybody there...?

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Caaareful Shopper — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:04:59 GMT

I think Quicking is more commonly used as a British term. It could be the person who wrote this is from England and instinctively thought it was the common word, as opposed to quickening or some other word to imply rapid pace & going quicker and quicker.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Steffdoggy10 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:59:11 GMT

Master storytelling? Is this a joke?

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

Stray — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:04:25 GMT

I wonder if Suzanne Runyon would go back?

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

songbird — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:04:53 GMT

Closing the Florida studiio was a stupid idea. Most folk go to Florida because of the weather. Hot as Hades as it is.....they would rather not see snow.

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

stevieb — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:14:19 GMT

Sorry, all I can say is what a crock. The ship is sinking and yet they're looking for more of the same... Master storyteller, huh... Whatever...

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

skatting44 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:16:59 GMT

As far as SHOPHq Hosts,

Fatima Cocci, Kathy Norton, AAron Kessler, Erin Newburg and Jen Vick .

Melissa Minor could be an assest to QVC , but then again QVC doesn't even put in print the exact color , clarity of each lab created or natural diamond pieces .

Could you imagine putting Charla Rines & Shawn K together on air ?

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

kaydee50 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:49:22 GMT

@stevieb wrote:
Sorry, all I can say is what a crock. The ship is sinking and yet they're looking for more of the same... Master storyteller, huh... Whatever...

And $150,000 to start for storytelling!!! Bye bye QVC/HSN!

Re: New Host Position Recruitment

kaydee50 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:51:19 GMT

@skatting44 The hosts you mentioned at ShopHQ are all excellent, IMO, and a big improvement over 90% of the hosts on QVC.