A UNIQUE BOOKSHOP CAREER No Previous Experience Required BUT: AFTER INITIAL TRAINING IN AUCKLAND THE APPLICANT MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO OTAGO TO MANAGE OUR DUNEDIN STORE The legendary Hard To Find Quality Secondhand Bookshop is looking for a new Manager in Dunedin. This is a longterm career position. The successful candidate should be reliable, personable, presentable, honest, confidant, energetic, committed (probably should be), loyal, dedicated, knowledgable (in a general sense - brilliant at trivial pursuit and pub quizzes), love books of all kinds, enquiring, engaged, fit & healthy, strong, open and broad minded (but not empty or leaky), adaptable, focused, omnivorous, humble, and have a great sense of humour. The job involves engaging with clients from all walks of life, assessing, buying, pricing and cataloguing books, as well as overseeing staff and day-to-day business activities while finding time to be appropriately obsequious towards the owner. Not a job for clockwatchers. A general knowledge of literature is essential, as is competence in using a keyboard and some confidence on the Internet More a calling than a job, it requires you to learn and problem solve every day forever. It can be physically, mentally and sometimes emotionally demanding. The money is… ok… but the true satisfaction is in somehow maintaining some sense of order amidst the chaos, and loving the challenge of endeavouring to know it all, but finding there’s always more to learn. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DRIVE, OR WILLING TO LEARN AS SOON AS YOU ARE HIRED. There will be a "restraint of trade" on any successful applicant TO BE CONSIDERED ALL APPLICANTS MUST CALL IN TO OUR AUCKLAND OR DUNEDIN STORES FOR OUR APPLICATION FORMS. ONLINE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED