Our ad looking for someo to join our newsXpress Forest Hill stores has been live at Seek for fifteen hours and we already have twenty applicants. This is more than we usually see and, I guess, a sign of the times. The applicants range from school leavers through to someone with an MBA. Yep, an MBA!
Don’t discount the guy/gal with the MBA – you never know their reason for applying.
Due to family commitments, I wanted to get out of managing accounts and administration and had terrible trouble getting someone to give me a chance. I was just about to crash tackle and tape the mouth of the next person who told me I would “get bored” or “I had TOO much experience” when I was offered this job – I have never looked back and I am pretty sure my employer is happy too!
Not really that unusual, Mark.
After years of human service work, and the relevant tertiary quals, I actually wanted to return to blue collar work, in line with an overall plan to simplify my life and live it more ‘real’ly.
I thought it would be easy to pick up a labouring job again – after all I’m still the same person I was when I cleaned toilets, operated machinery and nailed crates among other things to get me thru uni or feed my kids!
However, revisiting that was not in my destiny – it seems quals of any kind are a millstone, even if you’re more than up to the task.
So I became a newsagent…
I am not against someone with an MBA working in retail, just cautious.
One off my best mates is an MBA(plus other Business Quals). When he visited my shop he saw things that needed changing. We took his advice and haven’t looked back.
He gets paid to run a business and does his job successfully for the owner.
Maybe throw caution to the wind???
Do a 6 month probabtion. That way both you and the MBA guy have time to check each other out and you benefit from his business/MBA experience whilst he is there.