Working at the UH Bookstore has many great perks for UH students. It’s a way to get some extra income to help pay for tuition, fees, textbooks and class supplies, and you get real-world job experience while you’re still a student. But perhaps one of the best perks is the chance to enroll in the Barnes & Noble College Bestseller Program.
The Bestseller Program is a management development program that is open to students who have been employed at the bookstore for at least three months. Students who apply and are accepted into the program receive hands-on leadership, management, retail operations and business training to prepare them, upon graduation, for a management-level position at one of Barnes & Noble College’s more than 770 stores across the country.
Even if they choose not to take a position at a Barnes & Noble College store, students in the Bestseller Program will leave with valuable leadership and professional experience that can help set them apart from the thousands of other new graduates entering the professional job market.
Caleb Hodder, Bria Swafford and Sarah Meadows, all communications majors at the UH Jack J. Valenti School of Communications, are currently enrolled in the Bestseller Program at the UH Bookstore.
Hodder is on track to become a store manager upon graduation. Swafford manages the UH Bookstore’s social media pages and assists in producing and promoting marketing and promotional materials for the store. She hopes to obtain a marketing position within Barnes & Noble College after she graduates. Meadows is on track to become a textbook manager.
“These are the students who are not afraid to get in there and get things done,” said Bill Schaub, UH Bookstore manager. “They show up at 6:30 a.m. and stay late into the evening. They help us hire new recruits, represent us at orientations and help manage graduation product ordering and pickup at the end of each semester. And they squeeze all this in with their coursework and other responsibilities. They are future leaders.”
Read the rest of the article about the Bestseller Program at Auxiliaries and You, the Auxiliary Services blog.