Sales Assistant Review

During my average day at work the tasks I perfrom are dealing with customers, providing and processing quotes, assisting with stock replenishment and maintaining warehouse standards. My day to day responsabilities include making sure that our admin folders and processes are upto date and company compliant. The rest of my day is made up with processing orders and dealing with tradies.

During my time I have been able to add to my skills and knowledge base. The majority or these new skills are dealing with business to business sales, quoting for business and and dealing a wide ranging client base. The biggest increase in my knowlesge base is when dealing with plumbers as this is an area that I have no experience in.

I very much enjoy my programme. I've been able to meet some very interesting people from a wide ranging diverse backgrounds. After a 5 years at university it had been interesting and fun to get back into studying and using theories and techniques that I have used at undergraduate and post gradute level.

I find my course to be very well organised and structured. The onefile programme that it uses is quite easy to use and navigate once you gt used to it. Logging time and activities is easy to do and can be easily found. When tasks require you to upload evidence it is easy to do, infact its rather intuative.

My employer is very supportive in my work on this course. Both the Branch Manager and Assistant Branch Manager allow me time to complete instore tasks that I have been assigned. The attitude in my branch is very supportive and wanting to push colleagues to acheive their best. Any problems that ever arise are dealt with in a correct and timely manner.

My tutor, [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions], has been fantastic. She's always available, even at weekends, to help with either course based issues or technical issues that may arise. From my starting on the course to present day she's been very supportive and encouraging, which is something I've been very impressed with.

I feel that this qualification will enable me to perform well at work. I also feel that it's greatest asset is that it will allow me to progress higher in the company, to be honest that is the main reason that I asked to be put on to it.

Sadly there are no extra curricular activites in which to get involved with as this would be very welcome. The type of things I would like to get involved in out be professional networking events, trade/suppliers based events or training and events based on professional growth in the company itself.

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I would certainly recomend Screwfix to people. I joined during the pandemic after 5 years at undergraduate and post graduate study and I thouroughly enjoy my job. The people I work with are a great group of people who all pul together when needed, something I findvey appealing. I also find that it is a company that rewards hard work.

The best piece of advise that I would give to someone joining screwfix would be to work hard, join in with what's happening instore and make yourself the best at your job. There is a lot to be gained by joining the company on a personal and corporate level.