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Mom let me know late last week about a new gourmet concept store opening downtown. There are locations already in a few major cities, and the idea is a large marketplace with both retail and restaurant/quick-service (prepared grab-and-go food, a table service restaurant, groceries, cooking equipment and classes...it has everything). This location took over the entire food court of an upscale mall, it's currently under renovation to open hopefully early next month.
She got an interview at a 'job fair' Monday morning (a good friend is a meat/cheese department manager), and I went as well. Mom talked up her cooking experience, travels to Italy and insistence on cooking local.
They're looking for every department, and the exciting thing about this is they're big on cross-training and giving everyone as many opportunities as they can. In grocery but wanna learn to make mozzarella or other foodie stuffs? Sure. (the mozzarella-making actually sounds intriguing and lots of fun) The managers we talked with were very excited that I had both IT and grocery experience, and loved it when I told him I like to pick up as many skills as I can just because.
I originally applied only for store IT, but I got a call back from one of the grocery managers (I got drafted to stay a few extra hours, otherwise I wouldn't have missed the call). So I called him back about setting up a day/time to meet officially, and I hope I didn't sound like too much of a dork on the phone (I'm not a telephone person). I'm really hoping he calls back, this job sounds like it would be so much fun.
EDIT: I have an interview with the grocery team on Saturday
It sounds like this is gonna be a really fun place to work, and all my varied skills will actually be used. (starting pay is nearly $4 more than what I'm making now after 5 years in which doesn't hurt)
She got an interview at a 'job fair' Monday morning (a good friend is a meat/cheese department manager), and I went as well. Mom talked up her cooking experience, travels to Italy and insistence on cooking local.
They're looking for every department, and the exciting thing about this is they're big on cross-training and giving everyone as many opportunities as they can. In grocery but wanna learn to make mozzarella or other foodie stuffs? Sure. (the mozzarella-making actually sounds intriguing and lots of fun) The managers we talked with were very excited that I had both IT and grocery experience, and loved it when I told him I like to pick up as many skills as I can just because.
I originally applied only for store IT, but I got a call back from one of the grocery managers (I got drafted to stay a few extra hours, otherwise I wouldn't have missed the call). So I called him back about setting up a day/time to meet officially, and I hope I didn't sound like too much of a dork on the phone (I'm not a telephone person). I'm really hoping he calls back, this job sounds like it would be so much fun.
EDIT: I have an interview with the grocery team on Saturday
It sounds like this is gonna be a really fun place to work, and all my varied skills will actually be used. (starting pay is nearly $4 more than what I'm making now after 5 years in which doesn't hurt)
Definitely thinking of taking advantage of that as I'll be using my T pass a lot more.
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