Quote Originally Posted by Megustalaplaya View Post
part time, seasonal position. Other than my love for bikes, I have no experience working in a bike shop. floor help, putting bikes together, whatever they need me to do.
So what do you think?
For what it's worth, I don't need this job. I want it only because I like bikes and this job would provide an opportunity to learn more about something that I love.
I'm a chef but I think accounting could be fun. I've never learned accounting but I THINK I know what's involved. So I'll apply for an accountant's job in the hopes that they will hire me and teach me to be an accountant.

Don't take this as a personal thing. I'm sure you are very nice and I hope they hire you. But we get these "opportunity to learn more about something that I love" applicants all the time. This is a shop manager's nightmare.
We rarely, if ever, hire these applicants because they really just want to ogle bike parts, get deals and waste my time asking a bunch of questions about their own bikes.
The focus is rarely on customers needs and concerns. They are mostly a liability. We end up using another staff person to fill in the gaps or fix their mistakes so I'm paying two people to do one person's job AND I have a potential customer service liability on my hands. By the time they are anything close to useful for the simplest of customer interactions....the season is over.
In today's super competitive market I can't afford to let you play in my store.

Again, I'm sure you are the exception to this well worn standard. I wish you the best. Maybe you can parlay this info into an interview strategy. Hope it works for you.