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Casting Notice:

QVC is Hiring Full-time Program Hosts

QVC, the leader in video commerce and multiplatform shopping is searching for candidates to be a part of their on-air team as Full-time Program Hosts. To qualify for this role, candidates should have prior hosting experience on television, digital platforms, or live broadcasts.

The ideal host is a masterful storyteller with a passion for shopping and lifestyle products. They should possess a commanding presence along with high credibility and trustworthiness, which allows them to share product knowledge and information genuinely and confidently. Enthusiasm, sincerity, and genuineness are also essential traits for a successful candidate.

Hosts must be quick on their feet and have the ability to engage and entertain their audience, along with an ability to improvise. They should also possess an elevated sense of fashion and inspiring lifestyle while being friendly, warm, and relatable.

The objective of this role is to provide a differentiated shopping experience that is both informative and entertaining. The position requires full-time availability, including overnights and weekends. The job location is situated in West Chester, PA, and candidates should be willing to relocate.

Interested applicants should email a letter of interest with an updated resume accompanied by a photo or headshot and any hosting work's video links to the Casting Director, Sean De Simone at QXHcasting@gmail.com. Kindly provide a phone number, email address, as well as your current city and state.

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Why not retire a host that was laid off during the past several years??? 

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A "masterful storyteller"???!!!! LOL!!!

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Wondering if they hope alot of people over 50 yrs old apply??

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@Cookkin Probably the Q can't afford them.

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This is much better than the last casting notice which wanted actors and actresses, which QVC hired with less-than-satisfactory results. She seems to be MIA recently! (Fine with me. She's unwatchable.) There are a couple of other hosts who I'd enjoy seeing QVC show them the door due to their loud, obnoxious, behaviors.

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Is "masterful storyteller" another way of saying good liar?

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How exciting! I have NEVER seen a casting notice, but am glad to see just what qualifications are considered when choosing a candidate!🥰 This has to be a painstaking process. I welcome WHOMEVER they choose.❤

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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I agree, rehire someone that was previously laid off.

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I'm sure it'll be one of those hosts that move from shopping channel to shopping channel    They want prior experience.  Some of these can host in their sleep.

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I  for one am not interested in QVC re-hiring hosts who were laid off.  Just hire hosts interested in making the viewing and shopping experience a pleasant one and not talking about their children non-stop.  Give proper information about the product.  Cater to the customer and not the personal stories of the hosts

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Maybe they are cleaning house! They need to do so for sure!

[#13]

The age of possibilities is your theme.  

Now you said it.

Show us by hiring hosts over 50!

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Has anyone else noticed QVC is going downhill?  The new hosts they are hiring are not quality television material......Call me oldfashioned but I don't want to see tatooed arms, nose rings and scraggly greasy hair. There are also a fe new hosts who come across as obnoxious, interrupt the vendors and talk too much about their personal lives.

I limit myself as to who I watch and otherwise swirch channels. I have been a QVC customer since it originated.and the changes in the last 5 years are turning me off.

You need to consider the viewers ages.

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Why not bring back Carolyn or Dan? I very seldom watch or buy any longer from QVC...there choices and quality seems to be lacking in my opinion.

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I agree the Hosts need to let the vendors talk so they can inform us on the products. Half the time the Host is yapping about nothing to do with the product. There is one host in particular who always has to mention her daughters and how they use the products etc. Well honestly save that for you social  media posts and let the vendors give us all the interesting and informative information so we can buy accordingly and not have to send back our merchandise half the time because it turns out to be not what we wanted! And those who are so cringy---please STOP!

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I totally agree with you! I’m tired about hearing of their daughters

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 I  guess I'm old fashioned too. I agree about hosts keeping it clean appearance-wise.

  I have to turn the channel when the hosts look like members of a heavy metal band.  PLEASE!!

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Everyone (hosts and guests) on-air need to keep their hair up and/or tied neatly in back, please!

Customers are tired of the long hair hiding the neckline, collarbone and shoulders when showing clothing and jewelry. The hosts' hair is of zero interest to viewers! In fact, the long hair becomes a tangled mess when in front of a host's face. It's annoying and distractive to watch a host flip it back and forth or manually move it from one side to the other throughout a program.

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Tough crowd. 

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As someone who used to buy everything but toilet tissue from QVC, I agree that the channel has gone from 5-star to barely 1-star. I never, ever watch it. Just got on here to see if Miss Congeniality got married yet AKA "Look at me!!!" Y'all know who I mean.

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Tough crowd is right. I have never seen any host or hostess look like they belong in a heavy metal band . And I like hearing about there daughters , what’s wrong with that? She loves and is proud of her family.

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QVC could still do just a little more "house cleaning" with regards to hosts. There's still a few that are just bad.

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Glad to see new host hiring going on!  Gone are the days customers want "longitudinal relationship" with hosts - it becomes a cult following. I tune into QVC to check out new products or new addition to lines I already buy.  I'm not interested in the host, their family or any crises they may be embroiled in.   My take is hire quality hosts who can connect with customers, sell features and benefits across all product categories. It would force younger hosts to mature and take their job seriously.  I like watching the Kitchen shows and realize David V is but one person, however the replacement hosts for Kitchen shows are in a word - "insufferable" even the product reps/vendors react to their juvenile "schtick".  Someone must have told them clowning around or talking baby talk is a way to cover up incompetencies.

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Just get back to normal 1 host per show I see it's coming back some

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Employers are not hiring the most qualified, but are Woke to Inclusion-ness.   Why not just say that in your hiring ad.

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If they are so inclusive, why don't they have Plus-sized hosts?

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Consider hiring back Carolyn G. and Antonella N. Both professional and knowledgeable! I loved when Antonella presented jewelry, she wore it so well! 

Also consider hiring hosts who are not an "XXXX small" so that those of us who are not so extra small can get a sense of how the item will look on us. 

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They forgot the most important qualification- the ability to yak for three hours straight about almost anything whether related to the product at hand or not- mostly not. LOL

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Look, to me, QVC is not just my guilty pleasure (like the Housewives), it also is my escape. Even  if I don't have any money to spend, I just watch it like regular tv if I'm sad or stressed and I fully enjoy it. I have to say, some hosts make it cringey to watch sometimes by the way they cut off and/or treat the guests but that's beside the point. Others are witty, have quick, funny comebacks like Shawn, Mary D. and Jayne Brown. I love also how Leah is so classy, she's so soft and gentle when she speaks to the guest (reminds me a lot of Lisa Robertson who I LOVED) and so well mannered. It's a joy to watch her and so relaxing. I would like to see more people like Leah, Lisa Robertson, Shawn, Mary & Jayne B. 

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Still cannot tolerate Nancy Yoon who is too self-absorbed and eyes the camera lens rather than the customer. She repeatedly talks about herself (same old stories) rather than the product, which she always asks the Reps to discuss, then interrupts them mercilessly; or talks TO herself while they are speaking creating feedback sounding noise.
Bored with her claims to own everything and/or beg for her phone to purchase another item (or two). Can't bear to watch her model. There are plenty of models at QVC (usually in the background) who deserve the airtime, yet she hogs the camera talking incessantly to the crew while on air rather than the customers. And that hair in her face is AWFUL. 
Nancy tries too hard to make us think she is close friends with everyone when we know how impossible that would be at QVC! We don't care how many compliments she fished for before the show. It's disquesting to fish for compliments and then brag (on-air) about them. How sincere could any of them be? She's a piece of work with massive attention needs who uses yelling to control her sales pitches rather than integrity and intelligence.  She tries too hard to enforce her image by name-dropping Kim K., O, Meghan and more. News flash: we don't care about her idols.
We are also bored with her disappointment of living in rainy PA. If so unhappy, stop the negative remarks about PA and return to LA!  
I watched Nancy model wigs last night. What a hot mess she was in that platimum wig and make-up to go with it. As usual, the Rep considered the source and handled the hour with grace and dignity, but Nancy didn't help sales in her choice of a wig (or her lack of changing styles like other QVC hosts do to help the program keep interest going). 
Nancy has made changes. However, not for QVC's benefit. She's still intolerable to watch for more than five minutes. 
Hope QVC has new hosts ready for on-air. It's almost time for MaryBeth to retire and several others may/may not continue their part-time schedules. We need full-time hosts who know what they are doing and are enjoyable to watch/listen to!
Nancy is too invested in herself, her desire to befriend VIP's and a wanna-be lifestyle of glitz and easy living. The past three years has proven she'll never work for it like the other hosts are doing (or have done); she doesn't have the ambition or self-control to attain it.  

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I think the hosts are required to inform customers of certain facts. The guest is the expert. Let them speak. I think the guests are cut off because the host or the producer plays more on the FOMO sales tactic - because if you hear the facts - you might not want the product - and you are only given top level facts. Trust me, even when you return an item, they still make money. I record shows and fast forward so I don’t have to hear the hosts and their ridiculous antics.

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Enjoyed Shawn's recent podcast with Rick. It began a little testy, but soon became comfortable for both and flowed nicely with interesting information (and insights) back and forth. Thought it was a best podcast Shawn has hosted to date. She had researched Rick's life well and asked pertinent questions, which he answered with great stories!

Have always enjoy Rick due to his kindness to everyone and his amazing ambition. Shawn has become a much better host in recent years after she realized no hosts at QVC or HSN will ever become "famous" while working this gig. Her wise words, which she shares with new hosts often, help keep them grounded and humble . . . less star struck. "The host job is a sales position on national TV, nothing more" has been her mantra. Rick agreed 100%. Shawn's honesty is refreshing as she hits Over 50.                                      

She's becoming much wiser since marrying and having a family. It becomes her!  Shawn does work very, very hard. She must go home exhausted! Yet, her ambition levels for perfection are always high and she continually strives for better and new challenges. She's becoming a force to watch as she tackles new dimenstions for the Q! I have an entirely new respect for Shawn. She's become a powerhouse of ideas and has the ability to put them into action in a sensible, orderly manner.  

She works well with Rick's genuine thoughtfulness and kindnesses, but I sense a nervousness when Shawn works with Mally or Kim G (both of whom are too loud, energetic and crazy-fun for Shawn's comfort even though she tries so hard to maintain their energy levels). Some people are simply too wearing for Shawn's introvert personality.

Great job, Shawn! Enjoy your journey a little more with Rick. You have both certainly earned it after these successful years at QVC. 

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Watching THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS today, November 4 ... who is the male host? Nice guy.  I know I've seen him in the past as a brand ambassador ... for electronics I think? Is he now QVC host? What is his name? 
Kinda awkward when someone goes from being an "expert" presenting electronics to now presenting sheets! Think his first name is Justin.