Getting a job in Tesco ?

david....

Hi.
well this year im doing my LC and im unsure whether to go to college or not!

I have worked in a busy service station the past 3 years and know all the ins and outs of the place having worked 30-35hrs a week every week during 4th and 5th year! And the shop owner is happy with me and can prove this with a reference!

There is news aswell of Tesco coming to my local town which will be opened in the middle of next year and is only 10 minutes from me.

What i want to know is would there be an opportunity of me getting a full-time job being a trainee manager or a slimier to this, with wages of 12 euro + an hour being willing to work 40 hours + a week?

what else I would like to know is what is it like to work?
are there good opportunity's of promotion and better pay?

David

ABajaninCork

Maybe you should look here: http://www.tesco.ie/careers/default.htm?osadcampaign=TLCareers

saralou2011

not sure of the starting rate think it's around €9 an hour and it will go up every year! in most places you will only get a 25-30 hour contract, but you can apply for a full time hours after your probation period (13 weeks). You can apply for team leader and work your way up to management that way!

Denerick

Some retailers like Tesco or Dunnes will accept trainee managers without a college degree, but more than likely they will not do so at the age of 19. You're going to have to slug it out for two or three years, cosy up to the manager, establish yourself as somebody competant and seeking extra responsibilities, and in the end you need to appear competant, confident, and ambitious. If you apply for a trainee job internally, and look for some assistance from your manager you'd be surprised. In fact I know for a fact Dunnes Stores in particular is very good like that.

But you should err on the side of caution. You could go to college and work a 25 hour week in one of these places if you wanted to. That way you'd build up a solid knowledge of the grocery retailing business, develop the relevant experience, and luckily get on well with your manager (Cannot stress how important that is) With your degree at least you'd have a fallback position if management ceases to be your calling. A little warning; being a manager for Dunnes/Tesco etc. involves long hours, thankless tasks, extreme mental resiliance... and you will begin to question whether mankind is a worthwhile species... (You'll encounter every crank there possibly is complaining about gone off milk, mould on cheese, fermented juice... These cranks always appear out of the woodwork and they always look like people who wandered out of the loony asylum)

Its a tough, thankless job, and its quite possible it will make you into a bit of a bastard... So bear all of this in mind

boobar

david.... wrote: »

Hi.
well this year im doing my LC and im unsure whether to go to college or not!

I have worked in a busy service station the past 3 years and know all the ins and outs of the place having worked 30-35hrs a week every week during 4th and 5th year! And the shop owner is happy with me and can prove this with a reference!

There is news aswell of Tesco coming to my local town which will be opened in the middle of next year and is only 10 minutes from me.

What i want to know is would there be an opportunity of me getting a full-time job being a trainee manager or a slimier to this, with wages of 12 euro + an hour being willing to work 40 hours + a week?

what else I would like to know is what is it like to work?
are there good opportunity's of promotion and better pay?

David

If you have a strong interest in retail but would also like to gain a recognised college degree, you could look at working with Lidl and getting on their degree programme:

http://www.lidl-degree.ie/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57B25F-58338E1D/lidl-degree/hs.xsl//11.htm

My advice to you, would be to go to a local supermarket (it doesn't have to be Tescos) and ask the manager for some advice on managing a store.

I tried the trainee manager job many years ago, and hated it, it's not for everyone but some people love it. It's the same with many jobs, some people hate IT some love it, some people hate retail some love it.

I think you have some good experience of retail so that should help you in your decision. The best of luck to you.

tombom112

in tescos you'll get a 20-25 hour contract, you'll be on 20 hours for nearly all the time, more hours coming to xmas, the pay is 9.32 an hour and after a year it'll be somewhere around 9.60 per hour, denerick is right in his post, you can get a team leader position and that'll be 30-35 hours.

tesco have their own in house manager training call options and pre- options, basically if you do the options you'll be able to apply for manager positions, but like it said by denerick you have to be stuck to your managers hole to get these positions like team leader and to go on to manager yourself.

so as you can see this has nothing to do with your ability or even intelligence,its how much abuse you can take from your manager and then go back for more, if you decide to stick up for yourself you'll get nowhere

all that said if you keep on keepin on you could get to line manager in 2 years or sooner,and the cycle continues, but like someone else said your much better going to college and working part time, i would not like my career stopped on the whim of some bollocks manager who will blame you to cover his or her own ass, this is very much common place, you could be that person

i work for these people and this is what i see everyday:(

marxcoo

You'll generally need to put in a good stretch of time working at ground level before you would even be considered for a trainee manager position. However retailers like Dunnes and Tesco have a good reputation with regard to providing opportunities for progression for those employees who have proven track records. However, as Denerick already pointed out you could work a 20-25 hour week and do a college course as the same time. Even if it's not at degree level, it would stand to you and you could choose to do something that you feel may add to your chances of starting a career in retail management.