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Originally Posted by kizzy
If your area of education and experience is retail for example the recession has changed the face of the high street.
Those who were managers in these fields are having to re-train in a different fields or take a large pay cut in lower paid positions.
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BIB above suggests that it is hard to find work in the retail field unless you are prepared to accept large pay cuts. I disagree.
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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Retail's incredibly competitive at the moment since it's everyone's go to option. I remember being told by an advisor around a year ago not to bother with retail unless you have experience since Entry level jobs in the sector are just heavily applied for by everyone and more often then not it tends to be a matter of luck getting a job a shop.
That might only apply to my area though since Retail is definitely the main work option where I live.
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Dezzy appears to agree with my own thought that getting retail jobs is not that difficult: mostly due to saturation levels, yet we have another differing opinion below from Zee, that it is difficult to get into.
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Originally Posted by Zee
As a young person I think it can be very difficult to get your foot in the door - a lot of places that are willing to hire young people will only hire those who have had previous experience in that field of work - so for example, how are you to get experience working in retail if you've never worked in retail, and places will only hire you if you've had experience in retail? It's a problem that goes round in circles. I'm currently hunting for part time work now that I'm back at uni and I'm struggling so far - all my work experience has been in offices or working in a school - neither of which are particularly relevant to pulling pints or selling clothes, y'know?
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Originally Posted by kizzy
Nobody said it was hard to get into  |
The above posts, say differently depending on the view.
According to several posters (including your good self) - you can't get into retail - (either at all or at a certain level) unless you have experience or are prepared to drop grade... both of these indicate it is not an easy sector to gain employment..... yet now you are saying no one said it was hard to get into.
Getting a job within the retail sector I do not believe to be a difficult task.