Career Research: Current Trends and Skills in the Retail Industry

CAREER RESEARCH

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
APPLICATION AND ANALYSIS.............................................................................................................3
EVALUATION...........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Career research refers to a valuable application as it helps an individual person to self-
assessed individual skills, aptitude, preferences, personality etc. Those are interlinked with
developing personal and professional career (Bakker, 2018). It is an appropriate tool for me
because with the help of career research I would understand the current trends, skills and
knowledge which are needed within my interested profession. My interested industry is retail
industry where I want to work for generating higher profits and revenues. Due to my interest I
have to indulge in retail industry that is a wider concept as it includes several sectors like
superstores, departmental stores, chain stores, mail-order houses and many more. The main
purpose of conducting this career research is “to examine the current trends within retail industry
along with changes that are happening within retail industry”. Further it also “examines skills
and experience requirement while doing job within retail industry”. At last I will evaluate the job
vacancy that was available within marketplace.
APPLICATION AND ANALYSIS
Current trends of the retail industry
Secondary analysis
According to the viewpoint of “Frederic Mccoy, (2021)”, It is to be stated that in
emerging market trends related to retail industry is changes due to high usage of technology. The
major aim of the trends that are present within retail industry is occur to sustain within
competitive market and fulfill the customers’ requirements in a best manner. To gain benefits
retailers invest in modern business strategies to lead advanced technologies. Several trends that
are occurring within retail industry are presented below:
 Refitting stores for customer engagement- The current trend that are present within
retail industry is refitting the stores by using omni-channel strategy. In this companies
will handle goods and not on physical stores. Now retail industry makes authentic
connections with today’s customers by providing convenient shopping to them.
 Augmented and virtual reality- In 2021, the major retail industry trends is the
augmented and virtual reality. It is quite impressive to attracts and satisfy the customers