Congrats on getting through the assessment day and being successful!! I have my assessment on 15 Feb at 9:00 in Manchester and im super nervous  lol If any any of you can give me any advise that will prepare me for the day it would help. i also  have twitter @TineCope i'm wearing a flowery dress and have black. 

Thanks for offering your advice it will be a great help if you can answer any of my questions :)

My training is UK based, do we fly straight to our destination after training or go home for a few weeks?

When do you get your uniform list and is there lots to get?

Whats your accomadation like?

Do you work throughout the winter?

My bank account is trying to charge me for every time i withdraw abroad have you had the same problem?

I have been placed in Greece do you find out after your training whereabouts?

sorry for all the questions, I am just very excited and trying to get prepared- Hopefully we will hear more info soon Callie xxx

Thank you for the advise , im just going to make leaflets for my presentation and take a bag i got on holiday. hope i dont mess it up lol you never know if i'm successful we might end up work buddies  Thanks again x

HI LISA,

Thank you for offering advise, i just want to ask if you have any more advise for the assessment day??? Im really nervous  ive never really done a presentation but i guess there is a first time for everything  at least i have a few weeks to practice. x

 

TUI provide your uniform - you need to buy black court shoes with a heel between 1 and 3 inches and plain white trainers (they will let you know this before you go)

 

Accomadation varies between countries, mine has always been fine.  Your normally in a 2 bedroom apartment so you will be sharing with someone. 

 

You have the option of working winter - you put in all your placement requests during August.  a lot of people want to work winter and there aren't that many places so the better you are over the summer goes towards whether you'll get winter work or not.

 

I'm with Halifax and they charge me £1.50 everytime I use my card.  I get around this by drwing quite a bit of money out at once rather than £10 or £20 a time

 

I've done 2 summers in Cyprus, a winter crusing on the river Nile in Egypt, a summer in majorca.  I'm off to do winter in Lanzarote in 2 weeks.

 

All experienced reps have just had their summer placements confirmed so once they've sorted us lot out then you'll get more information.  newbies normally hear around end of March.

 

Ccope - when you do your presentation try to 'sell' whatever you're presenting to as many different types of people e.g. if you are trying to sell a restaurant to somebody - does it have a kids menu, do they have outside seating, do they have a smoking area, do they have pensioners discount, do they do special offers for sunday lunch, do they do lunchtime discounts etc etc.  I'm not sure what you have to do your presentation on so can't be more specific but try to market it to as many different types of people as you can.

 

I know you all want to find out everything now and it's very exciting but it is quite a long waiting process I'm afraid.

 

I love repping, it's the best job in the world more often than not.  You do also have days where it's hell on earth and you just want to run home but those moments pass.