Job Responsibilities
Greet customers coming to the store and give informational presentation about
black
pearls (Tahitian pearls). Try to educate customers so that they understand the
quality
of the product that we offer at the store and be interested in buying them.
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Job Requirements
Experience in retail or any type of sales was preffered. High school diploma was
requred since we handle cash and need basic math skills.
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Uppers
They pay either the comission or the hourly wage whichever is higher at the end
of 2 weeks. Some good weeks, we make lots of money such as Christmas time.
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Downers
Some months are very slow because where we are located is tourist town and if
tourists are not here, it is dead here. The store is very small and not much we
can do
at the store so it gets boring sometime.
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Lifestyle
The store opens at 10am so we come in and set up the displays and waite for
customers to come. The mornng person leaves around 3 pm and the afternoon person
who comes in around 1pm work till 6pm then closes the shop. We work about 6 hours
a day for 5 days a week.
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Compensation
Base salary is $12 per hour. Comission is 12 ~15% of whatever you sell. The
jewelry costs around $150~$15,000 per item and at the end of 2 weeks, we take
either
comission or hourly wage whichever is higher. There are also quarterly bonus and
yearly bonus. If we sell over $15,000 in three months, we get 1% of what we have
sold
and the same 1% if we sell over $50,000 in a year.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Every store owner or manager have sales book and tapes or CDs. Take advantage of
those and borrow them, listen to the CDs and read the books. They have a lot of
techniques how to sell jewelry and they work too. The owner or the managers
would like you too because you are motivated to learn to be better at the store.
Any sales
jobs, you need to spend the first a month or so learn about sales technique.
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