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I have worked within the retail industry for over 6 years as a Sales Advisor, and I have also been management as well. I left school after my GCSE's and didn't want to study at college . . I just... more

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  • 35 of 35 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Katieshaz

    Member since 01/11/2002

    Reviews written: 121

    2 Stars Confessions of a name tag girl... 19/01/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages discount on products, easy work

    Disadvantages Disadvantages pay can be bad, boring, stupid customers

    Remember that episode of Buffy where Cordelia's dad lost all the money so she had to work as a 'name tag' girl at a clothes boutique? Well that's what she called herself, a name tag girl. Which is what I used to be, minus being poor and actually having a name tag *shudders at the thought* Some stores ie Next or Monsoon don't have name tags, just little tags with the company name/logo on them. I personally don't like the idea of random people knowing my name! I worked at Paperchase (an upmarket fashion stationary store, see my review on it) on Saturdays as I was a college student. I loved ... more
  • 81 of 81 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    danradders

    3 Stars A Cheap Dogsbody 08/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Experience, confidence gaining if you are young

    Disadvantages Disadvantages pay, being asked to do everything, need good memory

    Right. Not sure what I should be saying in this opinion, but as I asked Ciao to put it up over a month ago, I feel I should take advantage of actually having something to write about. Left. Sales advisor is basically a posh name for shop assistant. I have worked in a garden centre (uncle Aspen will be pleased) for eight months where I gained some great experience as a part-time student earning some extra cash. Country Gardens was who I worked for, now called WyeVale in my area (Ashford, Kent). My job role included basically all aspects of this job title, including physical and mental work as ... more
  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 kiss_me2070

    Member since 11/02/2004

    Reviews written: 992

    3 Stars Working within retail 16/10/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Chance to progress, Different work, Meet new people

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Low pay, working weekends.

    I have worked within the retail industry for over 6 years as a Sales Advisor, and I have also been management as well. I left school after my GCSE's and didn't want to study at college . . I just wanted to work and earn money (which I regret now). ***WHAT IS A SALES ADVISOR/WHAT DO THEY DO?*** A sales advisor (shop assistant, sales assistant), works in a shop serving and helping customers. Advising them and helping them to the best of your ability. Duties can include cash handling such as putting through transactions on the till, stock replenishment (filling up shelves) and Customer service ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 spacemonkey

    Member since 16/02/2001

    Reviews written: 83

    2 Stars Confessions of a Shop Assistant 09/08/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages You meet nice people, lots of time to think, pretty girls in short sportswear, these kind of jobs are very easy to get, management don't usually have the intelligance to question it when you decide to pull a sickie.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Boring, soul-destroying, mind-numbing work, stupid customers, ugly women in short sportswear, everyone else has pulled a sickie too, so you have to go in anyway.

    When is a shop assistant not a shop assistant? Whenever the store in question decides that that isn't a good title for their hordes of student workers and decide instead to call them "sales advisors". Picture, if you will, the summer of 1998. The sun is shining, the birds are in the trees, and a fresh faced spacemonkey emerges from his final GCSE exam knowing that weeks and weeks of glorious freedom are ahead of him. Better yet, he has finally given in to his parents frenzied demands, and decided to find himself a job. This afternoon, his first interview, with that bastion of sportswear ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 zoe_page

    Member since 08/07/2001

    Reviews written: 871

    3 Stars Stop Staring At My Chest 16/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages ..

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ..

    I like to be busy all the time, so when I was offered the chance to be on a planning committee for a national conference, I said yes. At the initial meeting, we were trying to come up with slogans and one of the (later discarded) ones was “x (the organisation’s name, which I probably shouldn’t give away for some utterly unknown but not doubt existent legal reasons) – does what it says on the tin.” Fair enough, you might say, don’t most things? Well, no. You see my lovely little name badge at work is engraved with the immortal words “Zoë Page Customer Services Adviser” and yet somehow since ... more