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Tesco is announcing today that it will create 16000 new permanent roles to support the exceptional growth in its online business.These 16000 jobs are in addition to the 4000 permanent jobs already created since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.The roles will include 10000 pickers to assemble customer orders and 3000 drivers to deliver them plus a variety of other roles in stores and distribution centres.The supermarket expects the majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who joined on a temporary basis at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but who now want to stay with the business permanently. Roles will first be offered to these temporary colleagues with remaining vacancies then recruited externally.In April Tesco became the first retailer to fulfil one million online grocery orders in a week. Tesco now serves nearly 1.5m customers a week online up from around 600000 at the start of the pandemic. As the supermarkets online business continues to grow the number of new roles may increase further in the coming months.Jason Tarry Tesco UK ROI CEO said Since the start of the pandemic our colleagues have helped us to more than double our online capacity safely serving nearly 1.5 million customers every week and prioritising vulnerable customers to ensure they get the food they need. These new roles will help us continue to meet online demand for the long term and will create permanent employment opportunities for 16000 people across the UK.Recruitment across other Tesco business areas continues as normal. While details are still being finalised Tesco plans to support the governments Kickstart scheme and expects to offer places to 1000 young people once the scheme launches.The supermarket will also continue to run its apprenticeships and programmes aimed at bringing in school leavers and graduates with more than 80 young people set to join schemes across stores distribution centres and offices next month. Almost 50 students also joined Tescos summer internship programme this year which ran as planned and was delivered virtually.
