retail career
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Careers in Retail
Opportunities Overview
MBAs
Merchandising Career or
Store management.
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Opportunities Overview
MBAs
Enter into the corporate functions such as : HR, Finance, IT, Marketing and other
corporate tracks
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Opportunities Overview
Engineers
Logistics and Distribution
Major Pluses
Fun to know what products are going to be hot before the masses do.
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Major Pluses
Travel
Fashion Designing Company. If you work in marketing or merchandising, you may
find yourself needing to visit your company’s various stores to see that promotions and other aspects of store operations are going according to your vision, as well as competitions stores to
see what they are up to.
Major Minuses
Less paid
Glamorous but , most jobs require a lot of drudgery, paperwork and attention
Unstable
Recruitment
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Campus Recruitment
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Internship
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Campus Career Center
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Keep in touch with alums
What Recruiters Want
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IT candidates—should be certified in one or more of the specific
technologies
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Finance and Accounting candidates has to expose themselves with
showing how the business doing
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Companies Information
Their late performance
Challenges facing
How compares with competitors
Its strategy moving forward etc.
Sources: Website, Annual Report, Business press, Visits its stores
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Experience dealing with the pressures caused by change and
aren’t bothered by changing horses in midstream,
Did you ever stop to think about how big a role the retail industry plays in
people’s daily lives?
No
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Well. Then, ask yourself the following questions:
Did you buy a cup of coffee or a tea this morning?
Have you purchased groceries lately?
Are you thinking about shopping for a new pair of shoes, or new CD, or some other product any time soon this Holi/Valentine?
If Yes
Means directly or indirectly you will be a part of Retail.
Retail—the selling of products to individual consumers (as opposed to
selling to businesses)—is big business.