Quote Originally Posted by Seajay View Post
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.
So, perhaps, you could offer some tips for how to get the experience you're looking for and actually be the person you want to hire? If someone wanted to change careers to the bike industry, how could they best get the experience you would like to see?