Career Viewpoint: Job Opportunities and Skills in the Retail Industry

Career Viewpoint

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION.................................................................................................4
Industry overview........................................................................................................................4
PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION.................................................................................................4
SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION...........................................................................................5
Changing trends in retail industry................................................................................................5
Essential skills.............................................................................................................................6
EVALUATION...............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX-1................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
This report is prepared in order to demonstrate the key knowledge and skills required bi a
recent college graduate forgetting employment. This report presents job opportunity available the
fresh graduates. Here I have taken Retail Industry where I want to make my career. This report
highlights different type of trend prevailing in retail industry. After that report highlights
different type of skill and knowledge require having job in retail industry.
ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION
Industry overview
The Retail Industry in UK is the largest private sector providing large number of
employment and has almost 3 million workers working there. In the year 2018, the Retail
Industry generated 381 billion Pounds of sales (Nazir, 2020).The key area of opportunities that
can be found in Retail Industry are Customer services, merchandising and allocation, online
retail virtual merchandising warehouse logistics and supply chain etc. The major employer are
fresh graduates in the field of retail clothing are Marks and Spencer, Primark, River Island,
Uniqlo H&M etc. On the part of online shopping big giants like Amazon, ASOS, eBay, BooHoo
etc. In case of supermarkets, Aldi, Iceland, Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Asda etc.
PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION
To collect Primary data for the project, Scholar has taken help of Survey, which was conducted
on 30 consumers in the market. Result of primary data shows that maximum number of
consumer are having the real in trend in retail industry is incorporation of technology
advancement in manufacturing of different product in the market. Also primary data shows that
most of the consumer in the market has gone with the option that Some of the skill require by
the person to have a job in retail industry are Problem solving, Flexibility and dependability and
motivation. This information is well supported by the secondary data collection, which includes
article from variety of different sources in the market.