Build-A-Bear Workshop Employer Reviews

You get to have fun and "Play" with purpose all day. You learn to have fun while still doing your job without feeling like it's "Work"

This retail environment requires high energy employees who can engage with young children to older adults. Willingness to be unconventional is a must, as well as a passion for selling.

There is a wonderful training program in place. The co-workers are friendly and always make the workday activities as enjoyable as possible. You can tell the build a bear cares about the people who work for them, and in return they get happy and dedicated workers.

If your a full time student looking to have a job that will bend around your school hours and exam times than look no further! Build a Bear is a great place to work with all of the happy and friendly co-workers! I mean that everyone that works there is friends! So if your looking for a great part time job and love children and have lots of energy than – more... look no further this is the place for you!

A typical day at work is : min 3.5hours all the way up to 8 hours depending and the amount of energy that you show on floor. YOu switch stations a lot so that no one gets boatd and everyone interacts with the guests to develop a picuture in their minds of the store to make them want to come back. You usually get your brake at the 3 hour mark so that your do not burn out by going on a brake to early.

The Best part of the job: The people that not only work there but the guests and the children !

The hardest part of the job: doing at 80 kids party and having the daycare staff not telling us! But don't worry we can still handled it – less

-work would be fun especially when it would be busy
-how to further my retail information to cater to younger kids
-management was very demanding but fun
-co-workers were very fun to be with,always made time fly by
-hardest part of the job was stuffing the bears
-the most enjoyable part of the day was when we had parties there

A typical day at work on a Saturday is a constant flow of traffic, parties, children and their parents and customer service. I learned many things at Build-A-Bear Workshop; such as how to make schedules, handling POS issues in a timely and correct manner, how to open and close the store, opening and closing procedures, register and money management, – more... returns, hands on and personalized customer service for each individual customer, monthly tasks, forecasting, stocking methods, repairs, and floor and team leadership skills. My coworkers were excellent in this particular work environment. They were very experienced, knowledgeable, hands on, good with children, fast working, friendly, and responsive. I had excellent coworkers in this environment. The hardest part of my job was keeping up with the heavy flow of demand from my customers, and balancing control of my team and the floor during the chaos of busier days. The most enjoyable part of this job was definitely the high levels of customer and employee interactions. I love working with the general public, but I excel with animals and children, and with this job, I was able to work with children throughout my shift. – less

It was okay. Co-workers were friendly. Breaks seemed short. Had a lot of parties and everything.

*Enhance customer satisfaction and experience to maintain customer loyalty
*Provide step by step guidance to customers in order to satisfy the customer needs

A typical day at work was a Joy! The management of the workshop inspired me to be as warm,friendly with the customers,as I've ever been. My co-workers seemed 'hand-picked'.. to join me in the Fun experience. The hardest part of the job was the salary.

I would love to continue to work part-time at a place like Build-A-Bear. Very fun and creative job!

Staff was very friendly. No drama. Great place to work at if you love working with kids!

We greet guests and tell them how the bear building process works, then proceed to take them through it. I personally like to make sure each guest is happy and has fun at the workshop. I try making a personal connection with each child or adult by finding a common interest or compliment them about what bear they have chosen.

Stuffing bears, Greeting, – more... Stocking, Up at Register, Cleaning the store, Register are some of the jobs we do at the workshop.
I love it :) – less

Retail work is usually rough and this place didn't even pay very well for all they wanted out of their employees.

loved working for a company that truly appreciates their employees.

There is no typical day at work. You get to meet all kinds of people with all kinds of stories. This definietly a high energy place to work. A lot of fun!

Working at BABW was fun and stressful all at the same time. You got to be around kids and even adults on their birthdays and help them celebrate. You got to encourage kids to be as loud as they wanted to in the store. You also go to encourage those same loud kids to be creative and show their imaginations. Stress was when the line for the stuffer was – more... LONG. When you had a party taking longer than normal and another two parties that were going to start. The day before Valentine's was my favorite day...teasing the men who waited until the last minute to buy their girl a bear. :) – less

I was employeed as the Merchandising Coordinator and then given the task of running the warehouse. I self taught myself how to manage certain aspects of the position which i feel very confirdent about, as it was the first time in Retail.

I have great co-workers who all pull together when deadlines need to be meet.

A place where you get to make guests' days by helping them make their perfect animal. Great co-workers who are enthusiastic and fun to be around, and who are willing to help out each other. You learn a lot about team work and how to work with guests to make their experience an awesome one.

great plce for kids and adults, alot of imagination is required and patience and a strong love for kids.

open/close
party set up
train
coaching
cash handle
party calls