Trainee Photographer

**Trainee Photographer**

**Overview**

We are pleased to offer an extremely rare and exciting opportunity for a trainee portrait photographer to join our creative studio team. This role would ideally suit someone who is looking for a practical on the job training path in an industry leading portrait studio. It’s a rare chance to break into a highly creative industry and join a well-established successful team.

**Hours of work**

Full time hours 5 days per week (including at least one weekend day and some evening work)

**Remuneration/Package & Bonuses**

*Starting pay level to be determined based upon your experience and your existing skill set - relevant to what we are looking for.

**About us**

MI&Co is a very well-established quality portrait photography studio, based in Shipley. We provide a first-class family portrait experience, creating special memories at key stages of people’s lives, from babies to grandparents and often also including the pet (usually dogs) with finished framed portraits often adorning our client’s homes as treasured ‘wall art’ for generations to come.

We are family led, family oriented business and our growing, loyal team, is our biggest asset. For a creative industry we have many unique traitsWe are both creative, yet highly focused on success and business growth, which is ever evolving. No two clients are ever the same and no day with us is ever boring. It’s a fast paced, busy, focused and very positive team environment. We work hard, but laugh a lot - our team really is second to none, so Job satisfaction is very high, along with team appreciation which has many benefits. Everyone works together towards common goals and we all share the same pride in the service we offer, after all; the finished framed portraits that we produce for peoples homes will be special memories for many years to come. We are adding positivity to families lives literally

**About the role**

This is an ‘all-rounder role’, as being able to take a good picture on its own is not enough. We create a fun and memorable entertaining experience for our clients every single time. Every client is different as is their family, their taste, their décor and their budget - so this role requires a lot of skills from great photography potential - alongside excellent people skills, sales skills potential and a passion for always delivering first class customer service.

**List of typical daily tasks (once trained)**:
Taking creative, quality portraits of a wide range of families and age groups from new-borns, babies to couple shoots, generation shoots.

Editing images in Adobe Photoshop and creating a presentation ready for customer viewings

Viewing sales (selling high quality finished products and frames to customers to suit their individual home interior, taste and budgets). The best way to describe this is showcasing images in a slideshow then, discussing the client’s needs, home décor, taste and budgets then personalising the products to suit them. It’s a very personal service and this aspect of the role requires both ‘sales skills potential’ alongside quick thinking, negotiation and good taste, in order to enthuse the best ideas to suit each customer. Our sales process is quality orientated - not pushy.

**Essential skills and attributes needed**
- You must possess excellent Interpersonal skills and be naturally confident with an outgoing personality. It’s essential that you have the ability to articulate things well and be able to demonstrate the potential to enthuse people of all ages from babies to grandparents.
- Naturally creative with a reasonable technical understanding of photography. We are looking for someone to develop from an existing reasonable base skill set.
- Good understanding and demonstrable skills with Adobe Photoshop
- Be well presented and have the potential to eventually be good at sales further down the line (with the right training provided by us).
- Hard working, dedicated and have determination, resilience and self-motivation in abundance.
- Good level of fitness - as there is a lot of running around the studio in order to make kids laugh and get the best shots.
- Excellent attention to detail.

**Past experience requirements**
- Quality customer service and preferably past retail or hospitality experience, in a fast paced ‘energised’ customer facing role.

**Our Recruitment stages / Selection process**

**How to apply**

If all the above sounds like the perfect role for you and you could see yourself as part of our growing successful team, we would love to hear from you.

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**Please send us a bespoke covering letter specifically outlining the following: -**

1. Why our role specifically appeals to you

3. What direct experience you have in both photography and customer facing roles and how you think that will relate to what we are looking for.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Apprenticeship, Graduate

**Salary**: £16,000.00-£23,00