Summary of Bookstore Social Practice 1
Almost a week has passed since the summer vacation, but I have been quite bored these days. The classmates have all gone out to work during the summer vacation, or they are working part-time. I originally planned to work in a factory, but I gave up when I thought that working in a factory would be hard work and had nothing to do with my profession. So I was quite bored and would go to the bookstore whenever I had free time. One day I saw that the bookstore was recruiting assistants. I was full of surprise and applied for the job. Unexpectedly, I was hired. I was overjoyed and started my first job in my life.
However, work is not as simple as I imagined. My daily working hours are from 8:00 to 12:00 in the morning, and the tasks are also relatively complicated. But what makes me happy is that I can read the books I like, and after two weeks of work, I have a more thorough understanding of the work of the bookstore.
1. Work content
When we first started working, we newbies would have special training every afternoon. The training teacher was a young sister, but she was very strict with us. . Every day she will remind us of the memories and related selling points of books. My memory was not very good. Looking at the piles of books on the bookshelf, I couldn't help but feel dizzy and afraid. As I became familiar with these books, I could not only quickly lead customers to find the books they needed, but also sometimes recommend them what books to buy, so I slowly began to like this job.
There are all kinds of books on the book shelves in the bookstore, including literature, science and engineering, chemical engineering, and so on. My major is foreign languages, so I pay special attention to the foreign language books in the bookstore. Every time the bookstore comes with new products, I will check out the foreign language books. So after a few days of observation and memory, I had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the foreign language books in the bookstore, which laid a solid foundation for me to work as a shopping guide in the future. The following is the general work content of us novices:
1. Receiving and warehousing books
I originally thought that working in a bookstore would be easy, just counting the books and guiding the customers. I didn’t expect that novices like us would be asked to move books. , which undoubtedly requires a certain amount of labor. I would be exhausted every time I finished picking up the goods. With the development of society, parents are paying more and more attention to their children's education, so one summer class after another has been launched, which undoubtedly brought a fortune to the bookstore. Big gain. So during the summer vacation, the bookstore is even busier. New goods arrive in the bookstore almost every day. Every time new goods arrive, we novices have to run to pick up the goods, then count them, put them on the shelves, and put them into storage. Unloading is relatively simple, but you must pay attention to placing the same books together so that they can be easily counted and put on the shelves. Although counting does not require a lot of labor, you must be careful and you must not make mistakes, otherwise you will be in big trouble. If the goods are missing, you have to compensate yourself. It is not difficult to put books on the shelves. You just need to put the relevant books on the shelves. However, as a store clerk, you must have a good understanding of the book catalog in the bookstore. You must know which books are out of stock and which books are not popular with the public. Therefore, which books are missing should be replenished in time, and which books are not for sale should be alerted to the boss. The most difficult thing is to put the books into storage. With so many books, we have to move them into the warehouse box by box. Every time we move the goods, a dozen of us brothers and sisters sit down like prisoners who have just been released from prison. I was breathing heavily on the ground, feeling like all the bones in my body were falling apart, but every time I finished moving the goods, the day's work became easier.
2. Magnet
All new books must be "magnetized" before being put on the shelves. The so-called magnetization is to paste a special magnetic strip in the gap between the page numbers at the back of the book. This is also a security measure to prevent the book from being stolen. If a book is about to be taken out of the bookstore without being degaussed, the scanner at the door will automatically emit a harsh "beep" sound. This also reduces work pressure for security guards at the door. Books with magnetic strips can be added to the bookshelf.
3. The shelving and placement of books
The shelving and placement of books is not random, nor is it simply a matter of seating them. It has certain requirements.
Some books that are out of stock can just be replaced and placed in the original vacant positions, but for some books that are highly recommended or discounted, they need to be placed on separate bookshelves and posted with posters (for example: just 9.9 yuan) in order to better attract customers’ attention. As for newspapers and magazines, these books that people buy every day should be placed in a prominent position so that customers can reach them. This not only saves customers valuable time, but also brings great benefits to the bookstore.
4. Shopping guide
Relatively speaking, shopping guide is the easiest of all jobs, and it is also the most eloquent part of the job. However, not every novice of us has this part of the job. Opportunity does it. Our boss will occasionally select a few of us to serve as shopping guides based on our expertise and performance at work. Others are responsible for receiving goods, counting, warehousing and other tasks. Fortunately, I relied on my knowledge of foreign language books in the bookstore to become a shopping guide, so I no longer had to pick up goods and count them. Just lead customers to find the books they need every day, and occasionally provide some suggestions. But even so, we must not neglect it, because the image of the shopping guide directly represents the entire image of our bookstore. So from appearance to internal cultivation, I have to take care of everything. When I first started shopping as a guide, I was a little nervous because I was not very eloquent and not very good at communication. However, as the needs and urgent requests of customers grew, I gradually relaxed and became more and more confident. The stronger. Let me give you one or two examples from my shopping guide: a student who just graduated from the third grade of junior high school. She is very interested in foreign languages ??and wants to become a translator in the future. But what worries her is that her spoken English is not very good, and she has She couldn't pronounce several sounds well, so she wanted to buy a book specifically for practicing spoken English. But I was picking and choosing and just didn’t know which one to buy. Seeing that she was so entangled, I stepped forward and asked her about her current situation. After learning about her current situation, I provided her with some methods of practicing speaking and recommended her to buy a book. A more practical book for practicing speaking. Looking at the moved eyes of the elementary school girl, I felt very happy. Serving others is really a very happy thing. There is also a young mother who wants to buy some English books for her daughter who is in the third grade of elementary school, but she doesn’t know what kind of books to buy. So I recommended her to buy some English cartoons, which are not only practical, but also interesting and easy for her children to learn. Relatively fast. I also suggested that she buy some English teaching plates and so on.
2. Harvest and insights
1. Harvest and summary
In this work, I have a relevant understanding of the work process of the bookstore, and I have a good understanding of various I also have some exposure to brand books. Through observation and thinking, I found that more and more students and parents pay more attention to foreign language learning. For example: foreign language books, magazines, etc. are very popular in bookstores. Among them, the most popular recital books are New Concept American Recitation, and books by New Oriental authors are also very popular. Some books and periodicals suitable for practicing spoken English, such as Li Yang’s Crazy English, are also very popular. It’s a good thing that everyone pays attention to English, but don’t neglect the learning of your mother tongue. A person who can’t learn his mother tongue will definitely not be able to learn English well, because the learning of English and Chinese have similarities and differences. There are big differences. Only by mastering their similarities and differences can we learn English better. At the same time, language learning is also a mutually reinforcing learning. As long as we master their mysteries, we will be able to understand them all. But what makes me sad is that there are no books about practicing calligraphy in the bookstore. Maybe fewer and fewer people are buying them, and the bookstore is no longer ordering more. As we all know, calligraphy has been handed down in our country from ancient times to the present and has a certain history. However, how many of us can practice good calligraphy now? If we promote and learn other countries' cultures without paying attention to the inheritance and development of our own culture, it will not only be a great sadness, but also a great shame to our ancestors.
2. Insights from social practice
This job is the first job in my life. Although it is very hard and sometimes I really want to give up, I have always persisted. I know that if I give up now, it will definitely not become a big deal in the future.
Through this work, I not only conducted a certain investigation of the market, but also experienced the hardship of making money and the joy of serving others. Summary of Bookstore Social Practice 2
During the summer vacation, I worked at Xingchen Bookstore near Jinggangshan University. My job position was not high. I was just an ordinary salesperson. In layman’s terms, I sold books for the bookstore. . Although the job salary is not high, I am still happy to work in this bookstore - selling books, because by selling books in this bookstore, I can not only read all the books for free, but also learn many things that I cannot learn in school. to something.
First of all, I learned to treat others with courtesy and a smile. When I work in a bookstore, I often interact with many book lovers. The bookstore owner taught me to welcome book lovers with a smile, and at the same time, I should actively and enthusiastically introduce the books they want to buy to them. In this way, reading lovers will feel that our bookstore not only has an atmosphere for learning to read, but is also very warm. Therefore, book lovers will often choose to come to our bookstore to read and buy books instead of going to other bookstores. In this way, our bookstore will increase its income.
Again, I also learned some sales skills. The quality of books must be good, this is the most fundamental and the key to the survival of bookstores. It is necessary to achieve "fake one to accompany three" to reassure consumers. At the same time, the price of books should not be too high or outrageous. We must respect the law of market price changes, as long as we can make a certain profit. In this way, book lovers can come "a thousand times per person". Only in this way can our Xingchen Bookstore improve its competitiveness and remain invincible forever.
Finally, I also learned to establish good interpersonal relationships with the people around me. The bookstore where I work has other sales staff besides me because our bookstore is relatively large. During my time working at the bookstore, I developed friendly relationships with other salespeople. We learn from each other, help each other, encourage each other, support each other, and make progress together. We are really happy and happy working together.
I would like to suggest that if you are not going home during the summer vacation and want to find a job, come work in our Xingchen Bookstore! The door of our Xingchen Bookstore is always open for you. Bookstore Social Practice Summary 3
One month of social practice has come to a successful end, and everything that happened during the period is worth recalling. For this reason, I use this experience to record and summarize my work during this period. This is not purely to complete the task, but more importantly, it is an experience of finding my inner voice written for myself, and I will practice it in the future. Along the way, you can get a little inspiration from the words you record.
Since the school holidays are relatively late, I have encountered obstacles everywhere when looking for internship acceptance units. Finally, I got a valuable opportunity in a bookstore - Child Star Culture Bookstore.
My working hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. In the morning, I assist with book inspection in the library department, and in the afternoon, I act as a "book guide", that is, I recommend or help customers find books. During this period, I slowly discovered something.
In the bookstore, I have more exposure to books from various brands, and found that New Oriental Books' study abroad training series has been selling very well, mainly because New Oriental teachers and authors have done in-depth research in this field. The textbooks required for New Oriental School courses are also the best-selling books in the store, such as: New Concept Series, PETS Series, Longman Grammar Series, etc. As for English reading materials, not many students come to buy them (according to my observation), and they mostly do temporary reading. On the contrary, parents come to buy more books for their children, but most of them are limited to books that can arouse students' interest in reading, such as: "Harry Potter Series" etc. In terms of audio-visual products, some classic movies and TV shows that can practice speaking and listening are very popular, such as: "Blue Bridge", "Forrest Gump", "Friends", "Prison Break", etc., and Tomorrow Oriental's "New Oriental Word Memorization" The reputation is also very good.
Relatively speaking, New Oriental’s level 4 and level 6 books need to be improved. Xinghuo's vocabulary books are very popular. The overall design, layout arrangement, and connotation of entries in Xinghuo's vocabulary books are worth learning from.
Although New Oriental's fourth- and sixth-grade books were promoted and placed on special shelves, there were still very few people buying them when I observed them. Similarly, the New Oriental postgraduate entrance examination series of books are not very popular.
The biggest consumer group during the holidays is primary and secondary school students. Schools and teachers will recommend extracurricular readings for students at the beginning of the holidays. Parents of students will take their children to the bookstore to buy books as if they have received an imperial edict. The recommended extracurricular readings can indeed increase students' knowledge and cultivate their sentiments, but if the children don't like to read the books after they are bought home, and parents have no time to urge their children to study hard, then what is the difference between these books and waste paper? . Reading some extracurricular readings during the holidays can be of great help to children's physical and mental health, but we cannot use unified standards to require children. Children can choose what books to read based on their personal preferences, and children cannot be required to follow strict rules. Among the extracurricular readings I am responsible for, books such as "One Hundred Thousand Whys", "Five Thousand Years of China", and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are very popular among lower grade students. The colorful patterns in the books are the main attraction for children. reason.
While working in the bookstore, I discovered some minor problems. First, some old editions of children's books are not favored by customers due to paper and other reasons, and often cannot be sold for a long time. New books are constantly being shipped in, and old books are still placed on the shelves, making the originally small space more crowded. If bookstores can get rid of these unsaleable reading materials at low prices, I believe they can still make room for new books. These books are just on slightly inferior paper and were published a year or two earlier. If they are priced low, I believe they can still attract consumers. This not only allows used books to be sold, solves the problem of a large number of overlapping books, but also makes the bookshelf look more comfortable, making it easier for shopping guides to find books. Why not do it. Secondly, some books often encounter quality problems, or are damaged or missing, or have incorrect content, and the sold books will be returned, which affects the reputation of the bookstore! If the publishing house is strict during printing and typesetting and proofreading, I believe this kind of thing can be avoided. If students buy books with missing pages or errors, their learning will inevitably be affected. Therefore, we hope that many publishing houses can strictly control quality based on the principle of seriousness and responsibility, so that the interests of readers, bookstores, and publishers are not harmed.
When you walk into a bookstore, you will find this sentence behind the cash register of the bookstore, "Pursue excellence and challenge the limits." I think this sentence is not only applicable here, every industry and every position should pursue this. You can always find common insights between jobs.
One month is neither long nor short. It is the bookstore that deepens my understanding and intimacy with my work. The bookstore is the front line, and other departments are the rear. From different departments in the rear to the battlefield, everyone fighting together is full of sweat, but the most important thing is the happiness gained when everyone works together.
In this practice, I learned a lot.
One: As a bookstore staff, you must be responsible.
At work, I learned that the job of a shopping guide is not that simple. When customers have needs, they must explain them carefully and patiently. Unlike shopping guides, customers are familiar with every place in the bookstore and do not understand the categories of books, so they require bookstore staff to solve customers' problems and find books that meet their needs.
Two: In future work, we should work hard.
Carrying books in a bookstore and attaching magnetic strips are two "arduous" tasks. Carrying books to designated locations is also considered a physical job in a bookstore, and the number of incoming goods can range from five to six. There are hundreds of them, and these are the tasks of every staff member. Pasting magnetic strips requires the staff to be careful and conscientious. In fact, these tasks are not very tiring, they are just relaxing. Shopping guides have to stand in the bookstore for eight to nine hours every day, which is inevitably a bit boring. The work of carrying and pasting magnetic strips undoubtedly adds a lot of fun to shopping guides.
Three: Learn to be humble and ask for advice from others
When I first came to work in a bookstore, I was very embarrassed when I saw a wide variety of books with different names. It takes a lot of effort to memorize the titles and locations of so many books.
When I saw the owner of the bookstore skillfully finding the books that customers needed and remembering the fold numbers very clearly, I couldn't help but feel a secret respect in my heart. It seems that I need to ask him for more advice. After the boss's guidance, I quickly adapted to the new job and took a rough sketch of the categories and locations of the books. There are indeed elites in every industry. If you want to better adapt to new jobs, you must humbly ask for advice. Only by having experienced shopping guides who are familiar with the work give guidance to new shopping guides can the newcomers adapt to the work faster and get them involved in the busy work as quickly as possible.
Although this practice in the bookstore was short, it left a deep impression on me. Especially the colleagues who work with me make me feel extremely friendly. Colleague, this is the first time I have used this word. There have been many firsts since I came to the bookstore, the first time I learned to pack, the first time I recommended books to customers, and the first time I worked in a bookstore. Realize that you can better grasp everything only by experiencing it personally. When we participate in social practice, we can continuously exercise ourselves and accumulate work experience in practice, so we are required to take every social practice seriously and lay the foundation for better work in society in the future.