Working at Nordstrom?
A nordstrom near my house is hiring and I am considering applying for a job there. I already have two years of customer servive experience. I just wanted to know what people who work there typically wear. I've never really been in there before but I saw that they pay well. Also, what is the ratio of men to women who work there? Is it a good job for a guy?
Should I work at Nordstrom?
You have to be good with the public and remember that everyones perception is different. Meaning you can have one customer that thinks are really cool and the next customer could think are a total bleep. Major con is you get people that come in and know that customer is always right when you no damn well that they are not. I have that problem everyday. Then you are going to get the ones that say does this look good on me and test you. The ones that wear something too small for them and you almost can't stand but help telling them the truth politely. discounts are deffinately worth it, especially with them. At least when I worked for them two years ago. They are the best clothing retail company to work for as far as I am concerned. Your pay can go up real quick if you do your job and go above the call of duty after 90 days. Being your first sales job, you would probably get paid minimum for the company, of which would be different from state to state. The only reason that I don't work there anymore is because I found a higher paying job after I was done with college. Good luck and I am sure that you will do fine as long as you smile and nod.
16 year old working at nordstrom?
i want to apply for a job at nordstrom, but i don't know if they'd hire me. idk. im 16 with zero job or leadership experience... i just don't know if i should apply. should i apply? and what would i most likely be doing at age 16?
15 year old working at nordstrom?
If they do hire you, because of your age, they are not going to put you on the sales floor right away. Either they are going to start you off at the Rack, or as a cashier, or stock. I personally have never seen anyone that young get hired there, The youngest I have seen there was 17 and they all only got hired because they knew someone, all of them also first started off cashiering before they moved onto sales. If you want to take a week or 2 off for summer vacation, keep in mind that you will not get paid for it, PTO (paid time off) does not start until you work 1000 hours or after a year, also if they hire you, as a rule there, all vacation and time off requests must be made at least a month in advance. I'm not too sure if you would be right for a selling position, you are already saying that you are not very outgoing, that won't work there, you MUST be aggressive, a lot of the sales people there have years experience, and are much older than you, and if you eventually want to get out there, you have to have a very outgoing attitude, and focus on selling. Some of the experienced sales people are sharks, and when I sold on commission, people stole my sales, customers, and fights constantly flew because all of us were hungry (if ya know what I mean). Your sales is your paycheck, and also when customers return items they bought from you, that money comes directly out of your check, you must be aggressive, be ready to run, kiss your customers butt as much as possible and build your customer base. It's hard work, and your checks are so up and down all the time. For you I would start off as a cashier, or even in the e-bar, and gradually work your way into sales. Good luck
What's it like to work for Nordstrom?
I worked at the flagship store in DT Seattle in the early 2000s. It would have been a fine job if my boss was not such an irate and irrational lunatic. She spent most of her time calling in the sales team one by one to the stock room to scream at them about their sales numbers. I, thankfully, was the stock person. Even though my job was to stock the shelves, I was still called to the floor often to help customers and ring them up at the cash register. But, since I wasn't a Sales employee, I couldn't earn commission on my sales, so my boss always instructed me to punch in her number when ringing people up. After working the floor, often for hours, ringing up sales for my boss to earn commission on, she would remove me to yell at me for not having any of my actual job tasks done. Somehow she could never understand that if I was busy doing her job, I couldn't do mine. More than a handful of my coworkers had approached HR about the toxic work environment created by our boss. One coworker, with 15 years at Nordstrom, even wrote a 3 page letter about the abuse. All to no avail. Her nonstop craziness became overwhelming and I finally went up to HR on a break to ask for help. Hoping my voice would be yet another signal to them that there was a serious problem. Bad idea. DO NOT GO TO HR. They will not help you. They lied to me, by telling me no one had ever complained about her before. And, they tried to act like I was being sensitive. I decided to spend all of my free time looking for a new job because life is too short. As I was on my way out, a frustrated coworker went to the head of corporate HR and Blake Nordstrom with her complaints. They all scheduled a meeting with my boss. I have no idea if that changed her behavior. I was happy to be out of there. The actual tasks of the job were easy, but the pay was very low. If I had had a nice boss, I could have easily worked there for years. It's typical corporate retail, everyone's fake, hard selling is king, and never trust HR. I'd suggest working there with an escape plan in mind.
Can you work at macy's and nordstrom's at the same time?
Federated Stores which owns Macy's would consider that a conflict of interest subject to termination. In addition to that, if there had not been the obvious conflict there would also be the scheduling issue that would be bound to occur