ElizabethArden_荷蘭商伊麗莎白雅頓有限公司台灣分公司

Applying for a sales assistant position

100% foreign-owned company

After the first interview, the position overall involves administrative work, sales assistance, some HR duties, and customer service, making it a rather miscellaneous role.

The HR responsibilities include calculating and verifying the attendance records of front-desk staff. If you don't mind handling a wide variety of tasks, you may want to give it a try.

There is also a second interview with HR. I have currently received an invitation for a second interview, but I need to give further consideration to the job responsibilities described in the first interview.

The colleagues are basically nice.

Every day brings surprises, allowing you to efficiently experience all kinds of downward possibilities in life.

The HR manager comes to work every day carrying an overwhelming amount of emotion (!!!). She is unfamiliar with labor laws and unwilling to communicate with employees, so there have been multiple labor-management dispute cases since she took office.

The employees in the Finance Department are all relatively senior. The Accounting Department's average age of 50 may make you think this isn't a foreign company. The most unusual thing is that although the accounting manager cannot understand financial statements (shock!), she can precisely calculate overtime hours to two decimal places. I really don't know why the company hired someone like this.....

For future job seekers' reference!

Pay is made on time (although it is often short).

The general manager is self-aggrandizing and enthusiastic about displaying her own name on various promotional materials. She also likes to increase her personal exposure at brand press conferences through her less-than-impressive speaking skills. During her more than four-year tenure, the turnover rate among office and field staff rose sharply, mainly because decisions were emotional and changeable. She avoids any team conflicts while enjoying creating friction among colleagues in different departments, and allows the managers under her to draw salaries without fulfilling their responsibilities.

During work hours, the sales manager openly trades stocks, watches the market, and plays mobile games in front of colleagues and clients. Even worse, he uses extremely insulting language to verbally abuse and bully subordinates. The education manager’s professional knowledge and abilities have failed to keep pace with the times. Relying on the fact that the brand’s sales staff have longer tenure, this manager only invokes “inner demons” and demands that people remain calm, obscuring the core support and development responsibilities that education and training should fulfill.

Regarding the supervisory responsibilities described above, senior management cannot escape blame. Unfortunately, they still rely on tactics that are effective only at internal infighting and ineffective externally. In addition to spreading unrealistic information and blacklisting former employees, the company also has many unresolved lawsuits involving labor-management disputes.

The above information is provided for job seekers and successful applicants to consider carefully.

The supervisor was courteous. The first interview lasted an hour and a half, but it didn’t feel very stressful—more like a casual conversation.

There weren’t really any drawbacks. The supervisor first had the interviewee fill out an internal company résumé, followed by a self-introduction and questions about work experience. If I remember correctly, there is no performance bonus during the first three months of the probationary period; one becomes available afterward. Since their customers are generally older, they also need employees with skincare skills who can attract customers. There should be eight days off per month, with working hours coordinated with the department store’s schedule. The supervisor suddenly asked me to simulate a sales interaction to assess my verbal communication skills and ability to respond on the spot. They also asked which of their products I liked most and, if I were hired, how I would rate my willingness to work for the company on a scale of one to ten. They also asked about my family circumstances and family members. I’ve forgotten some of the other details, but overall, the interview process was comfortable. The supervisor even gave me a sample pack of one of their star products when I left. The supervisor was very courteous, and their sales associates were all quite experienced. The company’s benefits also seemed good. If you get the opportunity to interview there, take it.

Colleagues are kind, and the benefits are good. Before February 2017, the company atmosphere was harmonious.

Since February 2017, the company has undergone significant organizational changes, and employee turnover is high.

As long as you are not part of the boss’s inner circle, your workload only increases and never decreases; the king’s favorites leave work on time every day and keep passing their work off to others; the boss’s moods are unpredictable and they act differently in public and private; HR is unable to effectively coordinate cooperation among departments and only follows the boss’s orders; two consecutive new hires resigned after working for only two or three weeks, leaving behind either the king’s favorites or a group of incompetent employees.

If your goal is to enter a multinational corporation and you can accept unreasonable working hours and workloads, then this place may be a good fit for you. If you hope to achieve work-life balance, please consider carefully.