Bookseller - Temporary
About The Position
A Bookseller is an integral member of the bookstore team, welcoming and assisting customers, connecting readers with books and products, maintaining store presentation, helping unpack and shelve deliveries, and operating registers efficiently and professionally. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility, a positive and energetic approach, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, willingness to learn, and enjoyment of bookselling. The role requires learning and performing bookstore operations, including using registers and other technology, merchandising books and other products, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products with store resources, supporting the café team when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. The work is physically active and may involve supporting other stores in the wider cluster when able and needed. As booksellers gain experience, they develop knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make customer recommendations, and support sales priorities and new releases. The role has a career path toward Senior Bookseller as skills develop. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures. The position is temporary. The stated starting hourly rate is $17.00, with actual pay depending on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other legally permitted factors.
Requirements
- Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
- Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including the ability to fill scheduling gaps when able.
- Positive, willing, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
- Supportive and considerate conduct toward colleagues.
- Cheerful and helpful customer service.
- Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
- Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
- Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and substantial walking.
Responsibilities
- Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find suitable books and products.
- Maintain attractive store presentation, including merchandising, displays, cleanliness, sections, and backstock.
- Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
- Support receiving and unpacking deliveries and accurately shelve merchandise.
- Use personal knowledge, colleagues, BookMaster, and available information tools to locate books and products.
- Support the café team when needed.
- Understand loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support as appropriate.
- Develop knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
- Make effective book recommendations and help customers shop across store sections.
- Support sales objectives and products, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, and new releases.
- Comply with company policies and procedures.
- Provide support at other stores in the wider cluster when able and needed.
Benefits
- Employee discount
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Sick pay
- Paid time off
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- Transit benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
