Belk Employer Reviews

My day consists of assisting customers with returns, purchases, locating items, and sometimes finding that perfect outfit for an occasion. I also spend a pretty large amount of time cleaning out the dressing room and getting all the clothes put back onto the floor. The most enjoyable part of my job is helping customers find something that looks good – more...  on them. The hardest part about my job is trying to work the register and still manage to get all the clothes straightened and put back on the floor. My managers are very helpful and are always available and willing to help when I need it. I get along with a majority of the coworkers I interact with, the ones I don't particularly care for, I still interact with professionally. – less

Belk is a great starting job. The managers are stressed and there is alot of work to be done, but the people that work there become your family.

A typical day consists of meeting sales and credit goals, learning new things about new merchandise that comes in. Management was not helpful at all. Co-workers always had attitudes toward one another. The hardest part of the job was with dealing with people in management. The most enjoyable part of the job was making sure the customer was 1000% satisfied – more...  when leaving the store and them returning again and persuading other family and friends to visit me in the store for whatever needs they may have even if its out of my department. – less

Its an ok place to work at times. Being a partime worker you only work at night & all weekends. Some partimers don't though just certain ones. Usually a typical day at work isn't too busy. I learned to cater to every customers need rather they had an attitude or not. The hardest part of my job is not being able to enjoy time with my family on weekends – more...  or at night because im always at work. I enjoy some of my co workers they help me get through the days when its rough. – less

Management and Co-workers are a blast. The only downside is that im considered a "temp" and I do not feel that sense of job security that I need as a college student.

Typical work day whether I'm opening or closing is to open/close registers, reach a daily opening of credit goal process transactions and provide great customer service to our customers who are shopping with us. I've learned better customer service skills working at Belk since I deal directly with them. The management at Belk is fair, we each have our – more...  own Manager per department. The hardest part of my job isn't really hard, whatever I don't know I learn and everyone is willing to help everyone. The most enjoyable part of my job is when we are busy. When the store is busy I stay busy. – less

The most enjoyable part of the job is helping customers find what they actually need. Building a sale, but not overwhelming anyone.

My team comes in at 5:00 AM to unload the truck and process the freight onto the sales floor. We will set sales when needed, do markdowns, find and ship out RTV'S (return to vendor), transfers, and customer shipments. After each truck I fill out a spreadsheet to see how many cartons per hour we did. Then I look up the truck manifest for the next shipment. – more...  I've recently learned how to accept the markdowns on the computer, and open the store so the registers can be opened. Management works with you once you can get someone over by you, otherwise they are busy with other associates and/or customers. The hardest part of the job is housekeeping since we don't have a housekeeper, it takes us away from our main job. The most enjoyable part of the job is gaining new work experience. – less

Keeps you busy. I like people. Co workers are great. Management works with you. It's not. Customers are usually entertaining.

The job was not bad, but the atmosphere at the Gautier store was not conducive to personal and professional growth as they provided little or no training that was hands on.

A typical day at work is clocking in doing your assigned job. I've learned how to multi task between different departments. Management was not so nice, the ladies were definitely focused on credit card goals mainly. Hardest part of the job was the selling of credit cards. The most enjoyable part of my job was selling and educating people on shoes.

worked in customer service and also in the receiving sept. Took payments for credit cards, I also unloaded trucks and checked in merchandse

This company treats their employees well. They offer many opportunities for advancement.

A typical day consisted of assisting customers, operating the cash register, and keeping sales floor and stock room neat and orginized. I learned from my manager how to be a good leader and how to get to know the people working under you. I also learned how not to be a good manager by the head store manager who didnt get to know any of the employees – more...  personally and had poor leadership skills. My co-workers were very friendly and fun to interact with. it was like one big family. The hardest part of the job was probably when it was a slow day and trying to find something to do to stay busy. I like to stay busy and work at a fast pace and sometimes i was unable to do that. – less

morning meeting, open the branch, count down the drawer and balance cash, provide customer service.

All this company wants to pay is minimum wage and you have to come in at 12am to 6 am depending on shifts. Do you really want ot unload trucks for this pay with gas prices being this high think about it !!!

It's a good place to work if the managers would just get replaced there all really old and cant relate to todays world. They change the rules and job duties every month to "try and make things better" but it just makes it worse, so then you have to fix there mistakes!

They are too tight about soliciting credit to people. They do not have enough coverage, but they are good about giving you days off if you need it and time off.

Professional Environment and a place to hone your customer service skills daily.

Most companies are going to have snags here and there with their management. There was definitely that and some practices, such as repremanding some associates on the floor in front of others, that I completely disagree with. Over all though, the experience was better and things (schedule not included) were much more consistant. They also do seem to – more...  try more than most other dept stores to offer small incentives & encouragement to reach specific goals (candy bars, games, etc.). However, hrs and days that were supposed to be set, were seldom accurate and often changed. The schedules were very often messed up and had to be redone leading to further frustrations and confusion. They also had a lot of black out dates at the time. Also, the bickering btwn the shoe dept and cosmetics was crazy. Just be aware of that should you choose to work there. Again, if you're looking for a dept store, I'd recommend Belk over many of the others. – less