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local convenience stores. how do they hire?
fitnessguy1
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do they tend to be solely family run and only hire family or do they recruit outside people? i've never seen a small convenience/corner shop with a non-asian person working there, so just curious.
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fitnessguy1 wrote: »do they tend to be solely family run and only hire family or do they recruit outside people? i've never seen a small convenience/corner shop with a non-asian person working there, so just curious.
Word of mouth, notice in the window, family, friends, prospectives asking/handing in a cv.
Wasn’t aware all corner shops were run by Asian people!0 -
fitnessguy1 wrote: »do they tend to be solely family run and only hire family or do they recruit outside people? i've never seen a small convenience/corner shop with a non-asian person working there, so just curious.
Maybe you should broaden your horizons then.
Each (independent) shop is different, they may recruit through advertising, through word of mouth or family and friends only. Why don't you go in and ask?0 -
A Nisa local one at the end of my road advertises for staff in their window and on websites like Indeed.0
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OP, you do need to get out more if you've never seen a non-asian convenience store.
There's no universal obligation on any company to advertise jobs externally, except where such practices fall foul of discrimination legislation.
Did your friend find work?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5767130Originally Posted by shortcrust
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I do wonder about posts like yours op, but since you asked.
I worked in a convenience store for a few years. 3 owners, none of whom were Asian. I'm not Asian either.
Hooray for the edit feature.
I should add that I had no connection to the owners at all. I think there was a poster in the window to advertise the vacancy and I applied.0 -
Our local corner shop has, on the odd occasion, put a notice in the window. I've lived round here for over forty years, and it's only in the last five or six years that we have had Asian employees in the corner shop, but then again, we haven't had a particularly large Asian population. Going a mile up the road, there are no Asian employees in the corner shops. Is being Asian and working in a corner shop a problem? I've always found that the gents in our shop are very courteous.0
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Why do you ask? Do you want a job in a corner shop? If so then go and chat to them about it.0
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