When I was looking for a job coming into\ncollege, I desperately wanted to avoid retail or food, I was hoping for\nsomething that would allow me to hide in the back of some place and not deal\nwith people. Going home smelling like a deep fryer every day wasn’t a good time\nand dealing with customers who half the time had no idea what was going on was\npretty much the worst kind of job for me. My parents suggested that I look for\na job on campus, since I would be spending a lot of time here anyways, so I\nlooked around, and heard that the bookstore was hiring. I went in at the end of\nSpring semester 2017 and talked with the bookstore manager who told me that she\nwould love to have me and that I could start over the summer! I started working\nat the end of May and the bookstore turned out to be a job that not only helped\nme learn more about who I was, and what kind of work I enjoyed, but it also\ntaught me how to sell in a way that I didn’t expect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the summer was spent putting stickers\non books, unpacking boxes, and making signs and other odd and random little\njobs, but I absolutely loved it. It allowed me to do work I valued, efficiently\nand quietly. I already knew I was a very high respsobility person (meaning that\nI place extremely high value on doing the job I am tasked with, in the most\nefficient way that works out the best in the long run.) so being able to do\njobs that I was essentially in charge of, putting stickers on, quantity management,\nfilling orders, etc. showed me that there are jobs that would allow me to use\nthis high responsibility skill that I have. As time has gone on and I’ve now\nbeen working at the bookstore for over two years, I have learned so much about\nwhat actually goes into running a store. From ordering products, to filling out\nPO’s, stocking shelves, and my personal favorite pulling and putting stickers\non books. All these experiences have shown me the back end of sales and what it\ntakes to run a business that lives from sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The job also required me to work at a\nsalesperson. Sometimes I would be at the register, checking people out and\nhelping them find things in the store, but other time I was downstairs, getting\nbooks for people, or helping parents and their kids figure out what classes\nneed what books. I have been able to use all the skills I have learned from all\nmy previous jobs and experiences and they have helped me to help others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the longest time I have stuck with a\njob and I have grown so much as a person, and a salesperson from it, and I’ve\nlearned that when selling, one of the most important things you can do as a\nsalesperson is to make it clear you understand and are here to help the\ncustomer. It sounds cheesy, but when the buyer understands that you genuinely\nwant to help them get the most out of their time and money, they are so willing\nto talk and work through things with you, and you are able to bring them back\nthe next time as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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