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FlowerChat has a jobs forum - other than that, I only know of regional opportunities. Often local wholesalers will have jobs posted on a bulletin board at their location.
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Honey, how long have you been at designing? Did the shop you worked in not have anything for you to read to help keep the designers a breast of current event and design ? Shame on them if not. I like my designers and my self to go in and read whats going on, we live in the SOUTH and it takes time for trends to come our way, helps me sell a design first around here.
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Yes, most job postings require years of experiance and specific skills, but it is very interesting if you are new to the industry and need to figure out what you need to know for the future.
Honey, how long have you been at designing? Did the shop you worked in not have anything for you to read to help keep the designers a breast of current event and design ? Shame on them if not. I like my designers and my self to go in and read whats going on, we live in the SOUTH and it takes time for trends to come our way, helps me sell a design first around here.
Well I graduated last May, while in IL, moved to CA shortly after...then got a design assistant position late ast summer that lasted 2.5 months. I don't like to bad mouth other people but there some issues. My not having the background or experience with other shops/the industry period I didn't have something to tell me this is right and this is wrong other than my gut. I wasn't given anything or shown anything, I was told not to touch the incoming orders, I was not to design them at all. Oh I could go on but I won't...so that experience left me kind of questioning myself as a whole as to whether or not I was just being "difficult" or "picky", having too high of standards, maybe...all of this went through my head. Since then I have hoped and prayed for an opening somewhere that would fit my life...I think i may have found it. I hope all of you will pray for me that I get it!
I will tell you this. Like I said before, I know 2 graduates from the design institute. One works for me now, one worked for me during mothers day a few years back, and we are friends to this day. both are very good designers, and both are very young, 24 and 28.
so i really have faith in that school, i've never been there, never even heard of it until the one girl worked for me during mothers day.
you'll need to find a shop that will be willing to coach you while you get comfortable in your own designer skin. and don't get discouraged if they say they don't like something you did.
when my mom was first training me, i'd make something, if she didn't like it, she'd tear it apart, LITERALY, and make me re-do it.
a lot of shops don't want to take on someone who doesn't have a lot of "shop" experience. there's more to filling orders than just making pretty designs. you'll have to become part psychic, know how to sell flowers, price an arrangement (that includes ALL flowers, foliages, tape, wire, container, TIME etc) blah blah blah.
that's why you're having a hard time finding a job. just tell your interviewer you'll do what ever you have to do to get the job....
my best advise is pay attention to everything. listen to them on the phone with a customer, observe them with a walk in client, pay attention to the things that sometimes gets overlooked such as debris on the sales floor, empty buckets in the cooler, buckets left with one flower in it (use that flower!!) finger prints on glass doors, finger prints on sales counters or water on sales counters, plants being dry, etc. all of that, and more, makes a flower shop go round.
with all that said, try not to irritate the current staff with your efficiency, yes, it does happen, no one wants to be shown up. really all they would be shown is their short comings.
it's a tough business, but once you get it down, any shop would love to have you.
so i really have faith in that school, i've never been there, never even heard of it until the one girl worked for me during mothers day.
you'll need to find a shop that will be willing to coach you while you get comfortable in your own designer skin. and don't get discouraged if they say they don't like something you did.
when my mom was first training me, i'd make something, if she didn't like it, she'd tear it apart, LITERALY, and make me re-do it.
a lot of shops don't want to take on someone who doesn't have a lot of "shop" experience. there's more to filling orders than just making pretty designs. you'll have to become part psychic, know how to sell flowers, price an arrangement (that includes ALL flowers, foliages, tape, wire, container, TIME etc) blah blah blah.
that's why you're having a hard time finding a job. just tell your interviewer you'll do what ever you have to do to get the job....
my best advise is pay attention to everything. listen to them on the phone with a customer, observe them with a walk in client, pay attention to the things that sometimes gets overlooked such as debris on the sales floor, empty buckets in the cooler, buckets left with one flower in it (use that flower!!) finger prints on glass doors, finger prints on sales counters or water on sales counters, plants being dry, etc. all of that, and more, makes a flower shop go round.
with all that said, try not to irritate the current staff with your efficiency, yes, it does happen, no one wants to be shown up. really all they would be shown is their short comings.
it's a tough business, but once you get it down, any shop would love to have you.
Here's my suggestion if you're looking for flower shop job.
Don't play yourself off as a "designer", but instead a "flower shop employee".
"Designer" has some bad connotations to owners, at least in my case.
Now if you're a flower shop employee who can design, all the better.
Hope that made sense.
But it's how to get your foot in the door.
Don't play yourself off as a "designer", but instead a "flower shop employee".
"Designer" has some bad connotations to owners, at least in my case.
Now if you're a flower shop employee who can design, all the better.
Hope that made sense.
But it's how to get your foot in the door.
Well I can tell you when I was hired on I was told " To let you know,We already have a diva here so if you're thinking you're gonna be one you've got another thing coming"! I was shocked when I was told this as I don't have the slightest "divaness" in me!! In the same breath I was also told," Well I'm sure you know more than me anyways"-in the INTERVIEW!
Just remember teamwork! The longest tenure I had was in a shop where the owner, the other designer and myself were professionally trained. We ALL worked as a team and complemented each other's style and specialties. NO PRIMADONNAS was the first rule...everyone does everything...cleaning toilets too!
As for employment searches...this site will let you register your employment info:
http://www.florapersonnel.com/home.htm
As for employment searches...this site will let you register your employment info:
http://www.florapersonnel.com/home.htm
OH brother,
somebody has to be in charge.
I don't ask my staff to do anything I wouldn't and we all work together! but there are things i can do that they simply don't have the skill for YET. most shops have somebody who has been doing it longer than the rest.
I am a "designer" and if somebody automaticly thinks i'm a primadonna, oh well.
like i've always said, i've learned from my mistakes, i will continue to make mistakes,
but i will also continue to learn and grow as designer.
this business of "we are all equals" is nonsense. we are all treated with dignity, respect and humanity. BUT i am the lead designer/manager. the staff, including my boss, looks to me for guidance because i have been doing it for so long. much longer than all of their experience combined.
if we all were equals, why would there be a need for a manager? Who is going to do the ordering? who will be planning (designing) the specials for holidays. Who will make sure
everything is in order? who makes the plans for trips to design shows? etc, etc.... and if it all falls apart someone needs to be accountable!
I have worked at shops where we all did everything, including the toliets. And that was all fine and good. Then i went to work for a place that i didn't even pick up my own mess! that was hard to get used to. finally i asked the owner why. Her reasoning was that it made more sense based on what i made an hour to have me get a couple more designs a day done rather than me to wind down, clean up, seperate buckets, etc.. and pay someone else, such as a counter person to do all that for me.
it seemed kind of degrading to me for the person cleaning up my mess, but it also did make sense.
Aileen, just be prepared, all shops run differently
somebody has to be in charge.
I don't ask my staff to do anything I wouldn't and we all work together! but there are things i can do that they simply don't have the skill for YET. most shops have somebody who has been doing it longer than the rest.
I am a "designer" and if somebody automaticly thinks i'm a primadonna, oh well.
like i've always said, i've learned from my mistakes, i will continue to make mistakes,
but i will also continue to learn and grow as designer.
this business of "we are all equals" is nonsense. we are all treated with dignity, respect and humanity. BUT i am the lead designer/manager. the staff, including my boss, looks to me for guidance because i have been doing it for so long. much longer than all of their experience combined.
if we all were equals, why would there be a need for a manager? Who is going to do the ordering? who will be planning (designing) the specials for holidays. Who will make sure
everything is in order? who makes the plans for trips to design shows? etc, etc.... and if it all falls apart someone needs to be accountable!
I have worked at shops where we all did everything, including the toliets. And that was all fine and good. Then i went to work for a place that i didn't even pick up my own mess! that was hard to get used to. finally i asked the owner why. Her reasoning was that it made more sense based on what i made an hour to have me get a couple more designs a day done rather than me to wind down, clean up, seperate buckets, etc.. and pay someone else, such as a counter person to do all that for me.
it seemed kind of degrading to me for the person cleaning up my mess, but it also did make sense.
Aileen, just be prepared, all shops run differently
Oh sister....
Don't you ever get a situation where you have too many chiefs and not enuf indians?
OR - the inmates run the asylum?
OR - employees seem to think the workplace is a democracy?
Woud you hire a known Prima Donna?
2yla always puts in job adverts "Prima Donnas need not apply".
Don't you ever get a situation where you have too many chiefs and not enuf indians?
OR - the inmates run the asylum?
OR - employees seem to think the workplace is a democracy?
Woud you hire a known Prima Donna?
2yla always puts in job adverts "Prima Donnas need not apply".
that's my point bloomzers.
A diva is one thing. a DESIGNER is quite another.
if we were all equals the shops employees would begin to think the store was a democracy! As you pointed out.
Can't have that. I'm in charge, i'm the boss applesauce. but i'm a nice boss!
A diva is one thing. a DESIGNER is quite another.
if we were all equals the shops employees would begin to think the store was a democracy! As you pointed out.
Can't have that. I'm in charge, i'm the boss applesauce. but i'm a nice boss!
should also point out i'd love to be a staff designer with minimal responsabilites. let some one else have this stress!
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