How to Get a Job in a Bookshop! 📚✨📖 

Do you work in a bookshop? Are you applying for a position? Let me know in the comments! ✨

‘We lose ourselves in books but we find ourselves there too’ 😭😭😭 so true!

Hey Anna it’s a year late and your video could still help an individual who is located an ocean away from you. I stay in South Africa started working in this Rainbow book shop. I just started today and after work I was just clouded with to many information on different book, different authors and other things about the work. Went through RU-vid trying to learn if there’d be any lessons on my situation, and I have to say I am so lucky that I came across your video at first site. It’s perfectly sums up everything. Thanks your and have a blessed day❤

Thank you so much for talking about your experience. I always dreamed of working in a book store.

hi ana ! I hope you are feeling well , I want to say thank to you because this video was so marvelous so magical so TRUE about everything has around book selling, bookshops and booksellers ❤️ While I was hearing you I was in tears of happiness, because I don’t know hahaha I cannot put in words what I was feeling… but I am sure that one of my dreams is to get hire in the moat beautiful bookshop here in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Ateneo Grand Splendid) I hope that dream come true someday ❤️❤️ have a wonderful day

Next week I'm having an interview for a bookshop, I'm really nervous but I think your video helped me to feel a little bit more confident and ready, thanks!

Yayyyy new video 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Some brilliant top tips there Anna, must come and see you in action at Waterstones 💕

Omg thats me with the alphabet!! I am looking at applying to waterstones at Christmas this year along with my support worker job :)

thank you anna, im applying to copperfields currently and i hugely appreciate this!

Thank you so much this video alone has made me more confident to get my dream job!

I’m trying to get a job at the independent mom and pop bookshop that recently opened up near my house and this video helped a lot, thank you!

Our favourite bookseller 😍

OMG,Hi Anna Talks, am so greatful for your video.😞it was just yesterday i went to waterstones and i was told by one of the staff members they have vecancy, and she made it sound so easy, i was over the moon. so i applied. but i found today that i was rejected. and i cried so much cause i have been after a chance to apply for waterstones for literally a year. now that i finally got the opportunaty to apply. it was a dead end. all my previous experiences have been in hospitality and retail. i am confident that i have what it takes to work in a bookstore. i am so heartbrroken honestly because in my cover letter i talked about my love for reading, from when i was a kid to now. throughout the years my reading habbits kind of fizzeled out due to personal issue. but a few years ago i got back to reading again so much so that i have more books than clothes. i study medical biology at the moment however i really wish to build carrier for my self around books. but so far my social media presence has been the closest i got to that dream. i dont understand how and why they rejected me😭😭 i really dont want to give up . am sorry this is the longest comment in the history but i didnt know who to talk to about this😓.

Thank you so much for all your tips!

such a brilliant video !! I was just wondering because even though I would love to work in a book shop, as an autistic person, it can be really difficult to think about talking to people considering all the horror stories you hear about retail. would it be okay if you made a video talking about some of the fun and nice stories and experiences you've had working at a book store (and from lush as well if you have any!) it would really help when trying to get a job in retail!! :D

So helpful! Thank you!

I loved this video! Thank your for your words of reassurance. I'm starting a job in a bookstore today and I'm nervous, but this video really helped 💜

Great tips!!

this is so helpful because there is one specific independent bookstore in my area that I want to work in so so badly, this is such a brilliant insight into what the job might entail for me, omgg thankyou

I'm just about to send off my application after enquiring in-store and finding a vacancy. I was psyching myself out a bit as to whether I was well-read enough to apply, but your video has put me more at ease about the whole thing :) Thank you for sharing your experience and advice!

Wow. This video was extremely helpful. I cannot emphasise this enough.

thank you for this video! I have an interview tommorrow with an independent bookshop opening up in my city and I haven't done retail since well before the pandemic began. I don't remember how to be ~a functional person~ but these tips make me feel a lot better. Wish me luck!

I enjoyed this video even though I may not ever work in a bookshop...I shop in them almost weekly!

Hey Anna, this was an amazing and comprehensive video, thank you so so much for making this!!!

such a good video thank you! :) also I so relate to the alphabet thing hahaha

Have a interview for bookselling later today at my local Waterstones. Thank you so much for this video! :)

hi! i have an interview at a beautiful local bookshop today! i hope it goes well, i’ll probably update this, but thanks for this video anna!

A really good video! The focus bouncing issue that you’re getting in your footage can be fixed by switching to manual and focusing on the point you will be sitting at. Try placing something like a broomstick where you intend to sit and then dial in your focus.

I have an interview with Waterstones tomorrow! really hoping I get it, this is literally my dream job...

Hi! I just found this video and this was very very very HELPFUL! Thank you so much Anna, I made notes on your video, liked and subscribed!

I have a assistant manager position interview at books a million on Monday and I am sooo excited, but I realize the retail that I had recently managed in, is a completely different type of retail, so a little nervous about that. I think the alphabet thing was HILARIOUS because I have ADHD and that’s EXACTLY what I have to do as well! 😂

you are wonderful!

Have an interview at waterstones tomorrow as a bookseller! Thank you so much for this video, it eased my anxieties :)

Thank you for this! I have an interview for Waterstones on Wednesday ❤️

Hoping to get a job in a bookstore august or september ish. would be an absolute dream

It must be amazing to work in a bookshop.

My dream part time job whilst at school 😩

Thank you so much for this video Anna this is so helpful. I just found out my local bookshop is hiring and I am trying to update my cv. Do you have any tips for what to add in your cv? I have previous customer service focused jobs so have added those.

I don't know if you will see this but I really want to work at Waterstones part time (I'm 16) but I have multiple neurological disorders and was wondering what sort of disability accommodation they have?

I’m in the US but hoping to get a job at a smaller book store or somewhere like barnes & noble or half priced books. I have social anxiety and autism so I’m hoping the environment will help me bring me out of my shell and get experience? What are your thoughts? Do you think the environment is too fast paced for someone like me? 😓 I’m 22 so my social anxiety is much more manageable than it used to be..

8:56 See the issue here is my friends do not read books whatsoever so I'd be in rather an awkward situation here 🤣

What if you already asked them over email and they said no? Should i go in and ask again?

This is so helpful thank you so much! Just one question: who do I talk to in the shop? Can it be anyone, like someone at the till?

Thank you so much ! So helpful, I was wondering how my dough making job at the local Waffle House would help me, and carrying trays of dough and heavy flour bags seem to be the perfect training for heavy book cases 😆♥️

Hii. What should I write in my CV for this particular job? I didn’t find any useful information in my research

I work at a beautiful new library and people walk in every day saying: 'I want to work here!' That's lovely, but it's a Union job, so it's three years picking up casual shifts at the minimum to apply for a posting, and you need your info tech cert. (2 years). I wish it was easier...

hi! I'm currently an a level student and haven't done any sort of customer service job, (or any job) before. Do you think they would reject my application completely if they saw no job experience in my CV?

Just started working at Waterstones this week! I am enjoying it, but it is difficult at the moment as I don't know where everything is and don't feel that confident finding books for customers. How long does it take for you to get settled and know your way around? ✨

Thank you so much for this video Anna !! My question is can you just go the shop and ask them if there any jobs ??? Like wouldn’t that be a bit awkward or something???

Do you want to collaborate and make a video on some books in the fantasy genre?

Are there discounts on books?😳

Does this work if I’m Mexican ?