Retailing

Retailing

Jay & Fred R.

A) Marketing Occupation:

• Provides access to all retail jobs, Retail Management

• Set and execute marketing, branding, promotions goals for the brand.

B) Duties & Responsibilities:

• The salesman of a retail store is to sell goods & make people want to buy the items that the store offers.

C) Educational Requirements

• Require a college education, an associate's or bachelor's degree program in business

D) Recommended Courses

• Classes recommended for this type of job:– M419 Retail Strategy– M303 Marketing Research – M342 Management, Analysis, and Display of

Marketing Data – M343 Database Marketing – M344 Creativity and Communication – M450 Marketing Strategy

E) Employment Outlook

• Retail sales workers include both those who sell retail merchandise, such as clothing, furniture, and automobiles, (called retail salespersons) and those who sell spare and replacement parts and equipment, especially car parts, (called parts salespersons). Both groups help customers find the products they want and process customers’ payments.

F) Salary Range

• The salary range is 30K to 100K.

G) Schools Offering Training

• I’m only going to give you a few schools(3)• Syracuse University in New York• University of South Carolina – Columbia• University of Phoenix - Arizona

H) Lifestyle Associated With It:

• Just a pretty normal lifestyle, based on salary.

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I)Geographic Availability

• where to place retail stores based on where their customers are. The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the past decade due to the use of geographic information systems

J) Personal Traits Needed

• Personal traits needed:– You just need to be able to have good

communication with others, because you have to be able to communicate to help others.

K) Work Environment

• Most every problem in a retail job can be classified into two categories:

• Co-workers • Customers• Co-workers• If there is a co-worker that you just simply have

too many issues with, here are some things you can try to deal with them:

• Ask for a change in where you, or they, work • Ask for a schedule adjustment • Try to get them to go do a job where you are not. • Go find another task to do away from them.

L) Pictures of People in Position

M) List Sources of Career Information

• http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/retail/Retail_Management.htm

• http://www.careers-in-marketing.com/rtsal.htm