Property News · February 27, 2018

Want a shop job? You've got to have the X Factor


Applying for low-paid retail jobs used to involve a short chat with the manager. So why do employers increasingly make interviews feel like auditions for a West End show?Cady Siregar is a 23-year-old freelance writer from Queens, New York City. In 2014, she needed a part-time job to supplement her studies at university. She decided to apply to one of New York’s largest independent bookshops for a minimum-wage role on the shopfloor. As she was studying literature, Siregar thought she would be a good fit. What she wasn’t prepared for were the hoops she would need to jump through to get the job.“They made me do a really complicated quiz of matching authors to their own pieces of work and I had to score a certain number to get to the next round,” Siregar says. “It was like A-level English.” She then had to recite her favourite passage from a novel, unprepared and on the spot. “It was really pretentious and unnecessary. The job was really basic and standard – it just involved working a till, shelving, and taking stock.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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