Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Redding, CA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find suitable books and products. The role also supports bookstore operations by maintaining attractive displays, unpacking and shelving deliveries, keeping the store tidy, and serving customers efficiently and professionally at the register. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility when scheduling needs arise, a positive and energetic approach to work, consideration for colleagues, helpfulness toward customers, and willingness to learn. The role involves mastering operational competencies, including using store technology, merchandising, register operation, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products, assisting the café team when needed, and following loss prevention and de-escalation procedures. The work includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may also work at other stores to support the wider Cluster when able and needed. As their knowledge develops, Booksellers build expertise across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The stated career path offers advancement to Senior Bookseller as employees master the role’s skills. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including availability across early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays as needed.
Positive, purposeful, energetic, and reliable approach to assigned work.
Considerate and supportive conduct toward colleagues.
Cheerful and consistently helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help connect them with books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, and cleanliness.
Unpack and receive deliveries, then shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Use store technology and information tools to locate books and other products.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support using de-escalation techniques.
Build knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
Maintain store sections and backstock and present products in an interesting and attractive manner.
Recommend books and assist customers with shopping throughout the store.
Support sales objectives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Maintain reliable and punctual attendance and be flexible in responding to store scheduling needs.
Support colleagues and, when able and needed, work at other stores to support the wider Cluster.
Comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

Employee discount
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Sick pay
Paid time off, including paid maternity and parental leave (for eligible scheduled hours)
Company-paid holidays (for eligible scheduled hours)
401(k) with company match (for eligible scheduled hours)
Transit benefits (for eligible scheduled hours)
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Disability benefits (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Life insurance (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Tuition reimbursement (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)