Vantaggi
Great training and fairly regular free products. Really nice to learn about skincare and makeup. Nice to build relationships with customers and area managers. Generally if you are in a nice store, then its quite a nice working environment getting to know the other staff on different counters.
Svantaggi
Never ending sales targets that you have to keep trying to beat year on year. If you do really well one month, you just know that this time next year youre going to have to do even more to beat it. Once you get to Counter Manager, it is hard to see where the next step in your career progression would be. It seems as if there arent that many roles within store anymore - you could become a more senior counter manage for more than one store, or you could train other managers. But more than that it is difficult to know where the next step would be unless you became an area manager (which includes LOADS of travelling) or went into the training side of things at the Head Office (which also includes lots of travelling!)