Work Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Dozens of clean startups now compete with Honest for space on retail shelves and in social media feeds. Eight weeks into her tenure, she announced an initiative focused on making Honest profitable through foundational steps such as improving margins and leaning into new retail partnerships, like with Walmart.

Cleaning

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Expert Advice from Liz Schmittgens, health plan solution consulting director at Virgin Pulse. This interview is part of Virgin Pulse’s Medicare Advantage Magazine for Health Plan Leaders. Flexibility MA plans need to be flexible. For example, plans should keep an on special needs plans (SNPs).

Planning

Work Life

JULY 3, 2024

The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts. president and founder of the National Black Farmers Association, said in an interview.

Supplies

Success

MARCH 6, 2024

Each trip she took, she had to meticulously plan for the right products in the right amounts because, chances were, she wouldn’t be able to find products that worked for her skin and hair texture in hotels or shops. Of course, the pandemic had different plans, which quickly became apparent in March of that year. I can just be me.”

Retail

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Is it weird to offer to plan a party for a holiday you don’t celebrate? The weird part is that she’s offering to do it from halfway around the world, when presumably it would be much easier for someone in your local office to plan and manage local party logistics. As a general rule, companies should pay for interview travel.

Planning

Success

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Now, the living rooms Taing shares with his husband in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and New York City are for sitting or being interviewed for stories at 1 a.m.—since His father was a dishwasher and his mother was a seamstress before they opened their own retail store. Taing never set out to become an entrepreneur.

Retail

Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

A reader writes: I recently applied for a job and was excited to receive an invitation to interview. They were looking to fill the position fast and wanted to know if I could interview two days later on Friday. However, even without a commitment, I would have found an excuse not to interview on a weekend.

Interviewing

Success

JUNE 6, 2023

As many as 31% of workers actively planned to quit their jobs in 2022, alongside 28% of workers who were undecided on the matter, according to a survey by the Conference Board. Therefore, we do use that as a motivating factor if teachers are looking for work in other environments such as retail, warehouse, restaurants, etc.,”

Retail

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 9, 2022

This post, employee walks off the job to cry every day, getting more info before an interview, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I manage a very busy retail pharmacy. Why can’t we get more information before an interview? It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

Interviewing

Success

APRIL 7, 2023

After receiving her first commission—”a high school friend who asked [her] to make nine famous musicians,” according to an interview with Charleston magazine —she is now pulling in anywhere from $125 to $575 for each of her original felt artworks. I have a five-year plan to continue to grow in this way.

Sales

All Work

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Doesn’t matter whether they’re tech or retail or whatever, but about 85% of all business are smaller companies. 00:16:46 – Janet Pogue McLaurin Oh, you’re a tough interviewer. And I think city planning is evolving with these ideas. But the very best racers are the ones where everything is equal overall.

Small Business

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 6, 2022

This post, can I tell interviewers my hobby is drinking, going from scruffy to polished at work, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Can I tell interviewers that my hobby is drinking? I noticed that a relatively common interview question is “Do you have any hobbies? Here we go….

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

JUNE 6, 2018

Maybe they hatched this plan themselves and got it approved. Can I get out of the lunch portion of a half-day interview? I have a four-hour interview coming up on Monday. Business meals are a thing that sometimes happen, including in interviews, and you’re really expected to roll with it. Or who knows, maybe not.

Interviewing

Success

AUGUST 5, 2024

Planning for the future is all in a day’s work for Digital Skills Authority president Deborah Collier. Deborah Collier: I built Digital Skills Authority from the ground up with limited resources, developing the business plan, marketing, digital, tech and growth strategies and the Certificate in Online Business series.

Government

Success

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s even made headlines for the sheer number of people who log into the app to pick up career advice from professionals and various job consulting agencies, with many acing interviews and landing their dream jobs. Instagram is great for fashion and retail, travel and tourism—anything that’s very highly visual in nature.”

Advertising

Success

MARCH 9, 2023

Take Jamie Kern Lima, who left behind her dream of daytime TV to create a makeup line for people with skin conditions after her rosacea began affecting her live interviews as a news anchor. “In Kendra Scott is now a billion-dollar business with more than a hundred retail locations across the U.S. Success can be planned (to a degree).

Payroll

Great Place to Work

APRIL 23, 2019

Example: Retailer Burlington Stores, Inc. Example: Each spring, car retailer CarMax creates a personalized total rewards statement for every single associate. This report provides details, insights and updates relevant to the company’s success and achievements overall and specific to the key components of their three-year plan.

Retail

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 10, 2017

We both work at a women’s plus-size clothing retailer (national chain) in the midwest. These are obviously putting a mental strain on Jess and making a thankless retail job even harder. Sending candidates the interview questions in advance. When exit interviews are shared staff-wide. Here we go….

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

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.

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

JULY 1, 2022

It should have been a red flag for me but the money was just too tempting at at that time I didn’t have plans to leave. My husband and I had our honeymoon planned for late January of that year so after we got back I was determined to find a new job now that I was out from under that retention contract. It was all or nothing.

Interviewing

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.

Food

Ruby

JULY 15, 2020

Read the Interview Katie Hurst: Hi. And I’m really excited today to host the panel on Moving forward; discussing what comes next and how businesses are planning ahead. We’re a sweepstakes and promotions agency for retailers. Mostly to restaurant chains, but we have other retailers. Leslie Allison: Few retailers.

Retail

Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Last month I finally had a successful phone interview with one of this company’s internal recruiters, who agreed I have strong qualifications for either a customer service role or the job I would love to have and for which I believe I am well qualified, information editor. And I waited. And I waited. For a week. For a week. Just silence.

Retail

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 30, 2021

I do not own a motorcycle nor do I plan on getting one, but I do think they are kind of awesome. For the first time, I’m now working in a small, open-floor-plan office and worrying that people are getting annoyed by my sneezes. Interviewer blamed me for a scheduling mix-up that wasn’t my fault. What’s your take?

Retail

Ask a Manager

JULY 6, 2016

Even in my previous retail job, feedback was given quietly and calmly, with no yelling or spectators. In some cases, people will phrase it this way: “I’m planning to take the 5th and 6th off — let me know if that poses any issues.”. Interviews on casual Fridays. But what about doing interviews on casual Fridays?

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

MARCH 27, 2015

During the interview, it was mentioned that I’d start part-time and in 3 months go full-time if everything was working out. I got to the final selection interview and was told they were not going to select me for the job I had been interviewing for, but they liked me so much they were going to create a position for me right away.

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

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. how did you evaluate him in the interview?) This post, I own a game store with a terrible manager who I’m afraid to fire , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

Sales

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 16, 2016

Interviewer asked me, “Love to win or hate to lose?” ” I recently was asked this in an interview: “Love to win or hate to lose?” I think it’s a crap question asked by crap interviewers. My boyfriend and I both worked at a retail store. I’ve been there for about three years now.

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

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….

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

she’d be put on an improvement plan), but I think she worried because her lack of knowledge was the one area that was low on her 3-month check-in (even though we acknowledged the challenge of this year and that her progress was positive). I had tried to reassure her that if we had major concerns she’d know (i.e.

Customer Service

Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A reader writes: I’m 15, a girl, and work at one of Canada’s top grocery/retail employers. I applied, got trained without an interview, and started shifts, which wasn’t a problem when I didn’t have school and other commitments to deal with. , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I feel like I’m ”wasting my youth.”

Retail

Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What dates can we plan on that you can join me?”. Hiring manager sits in on every interview round and I can’t get anyone else alone. I am in the final stages of interviewing with a great company. One thing that stuck out to me as odd is that the hiring manager is on every interview round.

Customer Service

Work Life

JUNE 30, 2024

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) We also have a really large store pipeline, especially when you compare the rest of visible retail right now. “Technology in general, but AI more specifically, is going to fundamentally change every part of our business,” Buechel says. We’ve got 75 stores in development.

Food

Ask a Manager

APRIL 7, 2020

There are some communications that would be appropriate for them to send, like updates on their plans and how that might impact the timing of your return to work. I recently worked as a contractor for a major retailer. How can we give job applicants an easy way to ask for accommodations for their interview?

Healthcare

Ask a Manager

MAY 30, 2022

My team has planned a team builder at a physically demanding escape room. I’m feeling more urgency around figuring out a plan and timeline for doing that work … and if it’s unlikely to happen this year, I’d like to know that too. When can I ask about parental leave when I’m interviewing? It’s five answers to five questions.

Legal

Work Life

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Even as a small business owner, he’s helped some team members move into managerial positions or move from the retail side to quality assurance positions with overseas travel. “People need to see where they’re going in the organization,” he says.

Consulting

Work Life

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I am honored to interview and share insights from some thought leaders participating in our peer-to-peer mentoring. Boards of directors conduct rigorous evaluations and often implement succession plans to ensure effective leadership transitions. presidency?

Leadership