HEB school of retail management

[gospursgojas]

http://www.heb.com/aboutHEB/careers-schoolRetailMgmt.jsp

Anyone got any insight on this program or have actually applied or gone through it???

I need a work industry change.

[DMX7]

huh? Do you work for HEB or something?

[Kori Ellis]

TheTruth (Matthew) is in management at H-E-B, I believe. You could private message him.

[gospursgojas]

huh? Do you work for HEB or something?

nah just thinking about applying for something different than what Ive been doing for 7 years


TheTruth (Matthew) is in management at H-E-B, I believe. You could private message him.

Thanks Kori

[fraga]

I believe you need to actually "work"...for H-E-B first...and than you can apply to be in the program...

[Nathan Explosion]

You have to be an employee in a department to go to SORM. Usually a lead applies. S/he needs the recommendation of the Unit Director (head guy in a store) as well as pass an interview process. I think it's 2 interviews before you get in the program.

Then you go to training in classes, followed by training at a different store in your selected department. Then, with the blessing of your training manager, you're ready to become an Assistant Department Manager where you train some more. Usually in a bigger store.

When you're finally ready for your own store, you move to the bottom and get a small store with the intent of impressing your corporate boss enough to move you into a bigger, better store.

There's some work behind it.

Of course, if you have a degree and/or extensive management experience in a different company but with the same type of department, you can bypass that whole process and become a manager right away.

It has its perks. You get a partner share (percentage of the gross of your department for the 4 week period) and you get to make your own schedule. However, it can be a pain in the ass when corporate comes around and changes everything in the store, only to have the UD go and change everything back a month later.

And don't even get me started on how much of a pain it is when a new store leader comes in and tries to establish that s/he's the boss and everything will be changed to accommodate them.

Yeah, I'm an HEB employee btw.

[fraga]

Yeah...I've always thought SORM was like the long way of working your way up through the ranks...

[Nathan Explosion]

Yeah, I applied once but my UD said I wasn't ready. Part of the problem was he didn't like the way I looked. Part was he didn't like me. Part of the problem was I wasn't an ass kisser. But I also think part of the problem was I wasn't cute like the girl I helped train.

Somehow she made it and I didn't even though I had a huge part in teaching her everything she knew.

[fraga]

You need to put out more...

[Trainwreck2100]

TheTruth (Matthew) is in management at H-E-B, I believe. You could private message him.

I thought he worked their corporate side

[fraga]

Same crap...

[Nathan Explosion]

You need to put out more...

I try but all the women think I'm still married and I'm too much into the friends zone because I was married when I got to know them.

I should transfer and then start it off on the right foot.

[fraga]

Do you work at a Store or at the Arsenal...

[Blake]

To me, it's much too difficult to move up the corporate ladder through the same company, if you are starting in a low position.

The best way to move up is to move on, imo.

[Blake]

I try but all the women think I'm still married and I'm too much into the friends zone because I was married when I got to know them.

I should transfer and then start it off on the right foot.

You should apply at Whole Foods if you have as much experience as you are implying, imo.

[Nathan Explosion]

I work in Receiving now unloading trucks. Thing about HEB is that they guarantee at least 36 hours a week to full timers (for comparison Walmart only guarantees 24) and they pay you just enough to keep you there knowing that to go to a new job with the schedule flexibility like HEB would mean about a $4 an hour pay cut.

I don't think Whole Foods has a position that would take advantage of my experience, namely photo labs, business center and receiving trucks. I do have experience working grocery and drugstore/gm experience as well

[fraga]

Walmart is the devil... :D

[Nathan Explosion]

Before I got my job at HEB I was hired at Walmart. Problem was, they forgot to tell me.

[Slydragon]

Yeah, I applied once but my UD said I wasn't ready. Part of the problem was he didn't like the way I looked. Part was he didn't like me. Part of the problem was I wasn't an ass kisser. But I also think part of the problem was I wasn't cute like the girl I helped train.

Somehow she made it and I didn't even though I had a huge part in teaching her everything she knew.

She was hot :tu

[Frenzy]

However, it can be a pain in the ass when corporate comes around and changes everything in the store, only to have the UD go and change everything back a month later..

It amazes me how ignorant big wigs are...or at least appear to be. When a visit comes around the store will waste hundreds of hours just to make an impression. Well that's the way it worked when I use to work in other stores. Surprised visits are the way to go to get a real feel of the way things are. But when a big boss announces his visit and the mgrs and district mgrs put in extra hours to make the place look like a well oiled machine when it really isn't is just plain stupid.

Surely the big bosses know all your locations aren't perfect right?