Jessica Welch

As a General Manager I am responsible for helping to motivate and inspire my team to meet sales projections, I create career development plans, handle all hiring, recruiting, training, onboarding, payroll, and scheduling. I oversaw daily operations, budgeting, visual merchandising, and I kept a neat clean and well presented store. I was in the top third of the company ranking 112 of over 500 stores as of our last week's results. Before the closing of the store I was being considered as a future district management candidate and had multiple visits with corporate partners.

I started as a sales associate who was in top of sales for the entirety of my time with the company. I was promoted to shift lead and then a key holder. Once I had proven myself as a key holder I was then promoted to a management in training position so that I could be promoted to take on my own store as a manager. While I was in the management training program I was also promoted to ASM which essentially put me as the manager in charge while the GM was out traveling as he was the Area Manager. Anytime he traveled I was left in charge of the day to day store operations.

I was responsible for helping customers to find everything they were searching for. I also helped to clean up my dept and do planograms to keep up with the current company standards. I was considered for a team lead position at the age of 18.