Do you ever have those days/mornings/nights/hours/minutes/seconds of not knowing what your doing after having the best few days where you began to see everything with such clarity? thats how i feel right now, i had a topshop interview yesterday which left me feeling on top of the world and yet now for some unfathomable reason i feel so low and unsure.
I just wrote a couple of entrys for this blog trying to catch myself up to date on what ive been up to, and i feel like going back and deleting those past couple of entries because the voice thats writing them isnt my own.
I was lucky enough to be invitied to topshops recruitment evening for christmas temp vacancies after my friend Kayleigh who works at topman was lovely enough to hand my cv in, which i was so greatful for as i have been trying so hard to get a retail job for as long as i can remember with no such luck and so the saying 'its not what you know its who you know' has never been so true.
I went along to it a little nervously but with determination and excitement to finally be allowed to see what fashion interview entails ! I was wearing a black maxi chiffon skirt i got in the autumn topshop sales, a floral monki shirt i got off of ebay, a black&white aztec print bow tie i got in the top man sales and a leather jacket from motel ! I really wish i had taken a photo, if i have time i will put it all on and recreate the look to show !
We were all asked to sit on chairs in a circle and then they said the thing i hate Hate HATE, its the one thing i just honestly hate ! did i mention i hate it?! We all had to go round and say our names and an interesting fact about ourselves.. i hate having to say something... interesting?! And by the inward groans of everyone else so did they, i offered up that i studied fashion and that got a few head turns ^.^ sometimes playing the fashion card works ! And it was better than some people who literally didnt say anything just their names.. these people in general were the men who all slouched in their chairs and muttered inaudibly.. they looked the part though ?! A little gutted if they get the job and i dont..
Anyway after we had introduced ourselves we were split into two groups and given two different activities within these groups, to start with we had to work in slightly smaller groups and design a product that would appeal to their consumer base and that they werent/hadnt already sold; i suggested headphones as everyone listens to music and gigs/festivals are at their peak of popularity within our culture as is technology, music is at everyones fingertips ! I also came up with the idea of making them so they were a black canvas which the customer could buy and then with the pens/paints provided draw on them and customise so each one was individual to them and their style. My group didnt offer up very many ideas and just went along with my ideas but as topshop staff were watching and could see how big/small our input was i was happy that i was in a group where i could shine !
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| Customised Headphones id seen previously inspired my idea |
The second activity we were again in our groups and then split into smaller groups and within these we had to identify what makes a good sales advisor and more specifically what makes a good topshop sales advisor! Our group made a mind map of all the points we thought mattered and then we had to come up with an advertisement for this position, a member in my group said he liked the idea of using superheroes and i took this point further and suggested we do a comic strip entitled 'the adventures of the super sales advisor' and there would be one strip with a day in the life of a good sales advisor and then a strip underneath with a day in the life of a bad sales advisor and colours/speech bubbles/thought bubbles would convey this ! We presented all our ideas and i was really pleased that they liked all our ideas and i felt really happy that i felt talented at this, i think sometimes just doing a uni course and never feeling like you stand out and then seeing all your friends get retail jobs and you never manage to get an interview you can get really pessimistic over what you love and this gave me such a boost ! ^.^ i really hope i get the job but if i dont im just happy i had this experience and that i got a chance and i will definetely be going even more crazy with my cv even if its not paid and just for experience !
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