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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, everyone!
I have a question for everyone. I work retail, and I’m interested in advancing to full-time management and transfer out of sales associate that I’ve been doing for 6 years. I recently applied to a job, and I thought I had the qualifications down because I worked at handbag store for 4 years before it closed down, so I applied at this other handbag company that had a position opened. However, I didn't apply for a sales associate position, I applied for a title called supervisor I. The job ad said they’re interested in people with two-three year’s sales experience but the job ad didn't list if any management experience was required. I got a call from the store manager to come in that day for an interview, and I said yes. I come to the interview, and when the store manager leads me outside on the bench to talk, she says that corporate changed the qualifications for all the management positions. This position now requires 2-3 years’ management experience.
I understand that when one is interested in transferring out of sales to a key holder position, management will most likely want management experience. Also, I do realize job ads don’t always specify the requirements.
Anyway, let me talk more about this strange interview experience. I give the SM a confused look and ask why she wanted to interview me for this position when I don’t have the experience. I add that she wasn’t obligated to interview me, and I would rather have a rejection e-mail stating I didn’t meet the job requirements.
The SM said she wanted to get to know me. Then the SM proceeds to pick apart my resume that she has in her hands and asks me questions regarding my past retail experience. The SM doesn’t ask me questions related to the job or how I handle customer service.
Then the strangest words come out of her mouth. The SM says to me that she’s not only rejecting me for not having management experience, but the store is too small for me to operate in, I can’t manage a store this size unlike her, I shouldn’t apply for this position again until I have 2-3 years management experience, I’m not pretty enough to be a manager, I would never be a successful manager unlike her, and she doesn’t hire people to be managers under 30 years (I’m 24).
Can anyone explain what does it mean when someone says a store is too small for you to operate? I asked my current employers (they know I’m looking to leave because the company is doing poorly) this question and they said they never heard that. They only heard about being told when a store is too big for someone, not too small.[/quote]

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