Success

JUNE 6, 2023

For example, in one fast food position resignation #quittok with the description “I quit my job of four years today,” an employee quietly records her boss bad-mouthing her to another employee in the background. “Our Some have also recorded their boss’ or colleagues’ reactions to their resignation—with or without their knowledge.

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Work Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The following interview is edited and condensed. I was the person who wore the little pink-and-white uniform, brought food and water to patients and read to them. I was promoted to the catalog retailing department and did gift wrapping. Q: When you were growing up in Chicago, what did your parents teach you about work ethic?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I hear a similar exchange at retail stores, where you tell sales reps your shoe size and a few seconds later, they return to ask again. But we also buy things for their emotional value : think of the last time you used your GoPro, or enjoyed food, drinks, or a film with friends.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 9, 2024

Through interviews, I’ve researched the impact of this time on 35 people who were furloughed under the scheme. Several of the workers I interviewed felt the absence of work acutely. Lydia, a retail worker, found herself unable to maintain her normal circadian rhythms and became “nocturnal by accident”.

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HFI

JULY 2, 2019

Graduate Recruitment Case Study Business background Associated British Foods (ABF) is an international food, ingredients and retail group with 137,000 employees in 50 countries. Reports form a big part of our assessment and interview process. They run a graduate recruitment scheme across various divisions.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Last week he was invited to several interviews at different companies in his field in our area. A few days before the first interview, I asked him how his interview preparations were going and indicated that if he needed someone to bounce his thoughts off, I’d be happy to help.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

I can’t eat any of the food at our office Christmas party. I looked at the menu on their website and it’s pretty limited and they don’t seem like the kind of place that would go out of their way to accommodate special diets or be careful about preparing food so that it’s okay for people with allergies to eat.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

My coworker’s food restrictions mean that I’ll be the one restricted. We’ve always had to be a little careful where we book, because a couple of employees need gluten-free food. We’ve always had to be a little careful where we book, because a couple of employees need gluten-free food. Here we go….

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MAY 30, 2021

Why can’t retail and food service jobs retain employees? I’ve been struggling with this question for years now, since having noticed that “seniority” seems to have stopped ruling, at least in my field (retail or food service) and local area. what's a good application/interview rate?

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

My abusive ex works at the company where I’m interviewing. an in-person interview.) On one occasion, after months and months of nagging, I applied at my brother’s company as a retail sales rep. The hiring manager seemed baffled that I would be willing to give up being my own boss to come and work retail. Here we go….

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JUNE 27, 2018

Coworker takes too much food at meetings. I have a coworker who is pretty young (early 20s) who, when food such as bagels or muffins are brought into a meeting, has been known to grab four to five of them. I work for a tiny (five-person) company that offers both client work and retail. Do I just look the other way on this one?

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MAY 1, 2015

I thought I had an offer but now they want me to do another interview. Now today, after the conference call with his coworkers, he said I have to do a second interview and it will be a week away! I was unable to talk as I was with a current coworker and I just agreed to the interview a week away. Here we go…. I said yes.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Slowly over the years, she has started taking more and more liberties in regards to the food and ignoring our requests for her to do a task. She’s taking food she’s not supposed to take! If you wouldn’t, it’s not really about the food.). I am a retail store manager and I have to keep my cool but I find it so incredibly rude.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sometimes we bring food and share it among us. Last month, my boss told me and everyone else that we had lunch with that we can no longer share our food with each other. My boss said that it was favoritism because we were not inviting everyone else in the department to eat with us and share our food with them.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

A reader writes: I own a small (game store) retail business and the store manager I hired to run my business sucks. He keeps the place a mess and it’s honestly embarrassing and frustrating to walk into trash and leftover food everywhere all the time. how did you evaluate him in the interview?) The store sales have been terrible.

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JULY 19, 2022

I did a pre-interview for a TV slot on ITV in the UK about my MA research, and at the end of the interview instead of doing cheek kisses with the presenter, I kissed her on the mouth. A few years ago, I worked for a nonprofit that provided home-delivered meals to homebound seniors, as well as pet food and supplies for their pets.

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SnackNation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Founded in 2013, the Los Angeles-based company garnered a ton of early attention by bringing a futuristic, Silicon Valley-style approach to food and nutrition. A recently inked Kroger deal now has them in more than 1,850 stores, and more than 10,000 retail locations altogether. But that’s still just part of the story.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Years ago, I thought I was going to have to be a lifer in the food service industry. Alison, just reading all the advice you have given has helped my translate my food service skills and reframe them into great interview talking points. I dont ever look down on anyone that is, but I also did not want that to be my life path.

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Ruby

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For one, there’s the work involved in recruiting: writing job descriptions, combing through resumes, vetting candidates, conducting interviews and follow-up interviews, negotiating pay, coordinating start dates, and so on. Use structured interviewing. Personally, I don’t exactly love it. What does this look like?

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JULY 3, 2019

I accidentally hugged my interviewer. I am 19 years old and I have a question about a situation that took place at an interview that I am really overthinking. I had an interview today for a retail company. She said that my resume was amazing and it was more of a chat than an interview. It’s possible!

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Vantage Circle

MAY 8, 2024

Also, incorporate your EVP throughout the recruitment process, from job descriptions to interview conversations. Zappos The online shoe retailer Zappos is renowned for its company culture, which is a significant element of its EVP. Showcase how your company adheres to delivering its value proposition.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Can I get out of the lunch portion of a half-day interview? I have a four-hour interview coming up on Monday. I really don’t want to have lunch with these people, mostly because I find eating and talking very awkward and I have to be “on” because this is still and interview. They just sent me the agenda.

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JANUARY 14, 2018

In interviews, should you dress one step up from the position you’re applying for? For the interview, all three of us applicants for the two available positions sat together and were called one at a time into the office for a 15-minute or so interview. When the other two also high school interviewees arrived, I was surprised.

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MAY 11, 2015

They then told me that others in my position have gone to food banks or dinners for the poor so they could cut down on their food bills. Plus, suggesting that you rely on food banks to get by? As some background, the recruiter has scheduled a “prep” meeting with me before every step of the interview process.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Students need food for an event? I left my retail job last November because it became very obvious I just couldn’t keep up physically anymore on top of a change in culture where I would not have fit. However I was still able to focus on the interview, I used all the AAM advice I could think of. Items need to be picked up?

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

During those intervening years I got interviews, each one felt better than the last, and some offers. I actually was in a series of dental appointments when the interviews came through, and since it’s COVID times, the interviews were by video and easily scheduled to just come in late/leave early for “dentist appointments.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Do I owe my employer an apology for interviewing elsewhere? I have had my eyes open for another position, and went to interviews. I work at night, and recently a card with a time, date, and a request for references fell out of my pocket while I was working, and it was very obvious that I was going to be interviewing.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Can you bill for your time after a long interview process? A friend recently sat for 29 — yes, 29 — half-hour interviews (company size ~180) for the position of senior director. The interviews included the CEO, President, COO, CFO, etc. 29 interviews is beyond excessive. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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Ruby

JULY 3, 2020

Katie Hurst, Ruby’s Director of Strategic Communications, takes the mic in this edition of Business Unusual, interviewing Nalini Prasad, Chief Strategy Officer at BluShark Digital , about the power of local marketing and the importance of Google My Business. Right now, we’re seeing a lot of those posts just get rejected for no reason.

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JULY 15, 2020

This is only my third office-type job, but I have significant retail/food service experience before this, and to me, the pop quiz idea comes off as punitive and ineffective. Can you interview with a second company when an employer flies you out to interview? That said, in general it’s wise to be discreet when you do this.

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APRIL 27, 2020

But during that brief chat, Lisa told Natalie it looked like I’d eaten “all of [my] quarantine food already.” I might need to be able to do video interviews or meetings. I am the owner of a small retail business. Using my work Zoom account for a job interview. I thought we were on good terms.

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JULY 20, 2017

She knows that she would find jobs that require a lot of contact with the public torturous, and therefore did not apply to any openings for fast food or retail outlets, although that is the type of job that is most plentiful for her age group. She is an introvert, and quite shy on top of that.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Several years ago I was working in a retail job that involved services for customers (a jewelry counter that also offered watch battery replacement and band changes/resizing). Was this an interview faux pas. I had a phone interview with a company I’d be really excited to work for. Frequent interview-ending answers.

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MAY 8, 2020

The COVID crisis hit, and because my new position was with the local food bank, I was automatically essential! I started landing interviews right away, but it took a few months to get an offer at my current company. I spent some of that time reading your website and listening to your podcast. Double yay!

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MAY 10, 2017

I don’t even think I should mention the internship when I apply or at interviews, and I still regret letting Niles talk me into it. Also, do you truly have no work to put on there — no summer jobs in food service or retail or as a camp counselor, or anything like that? How long were you at the internship?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

So, as the holidays are coming up and people don’t always make healthy choices during holidays, the company started a way to be supportive of one another with better decision-making about food and exercise, etc. Finding a part-time job in my field while working part-time retail.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Is this a good strategy, or will future employers be more put off by an extended stint at a shady company than by a string of retail positions? Being able to put a different company name on your resume might mitigate the problem somewhat, but if a savvy interviewer digs into what the company really is, it’s going to be a problem.

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