Exploring Job Roles: Sales Associate, Office Admin, and Data Analyst

This assignment presents a comparative analysis of three different job roles: sales associate, office administrator, and data analyst. The document includes detailed job descriptions and specifications for each role, sourced from various online job websites. The student then selects the sales associate position as their preferred choice, providing a rationale based on personal motivations, skills, and career aspirations. The analysis highlights the advantages of the sales associate role, such as commission-based earnings, the opportunity to leverage prior experience, employee discounts, and flexible scheduling. The assignment concludes with a list of cited references, demonstrating the research conducted to support the analysis.

Running head: WRITING PRACTICE
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Name of Student
Name of University
Author’s Note

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Sales associate
URL of the job websites
www. indeed.ca
https://www.google.com/search?q=sales+assocate+jobs+in+Canada&oq=sales+assocate+jo
s+in+Canada&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l4.8269j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-
8&ibp=htl;jobs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvgOX-
2KrjAhUIdCsKHYqfAy4Qp4wCMAB6BAgHEAE#htidocid=PqDTQYKV9l-
Rvh2yAAAAAA%3D%3D
Job description and job specification
 Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by being knowledgeable on all products
offered, and teaming up with co-workers to provide excellent sales service
 Delivering sales, outstanding customer experience, and operational expectations
 Maintaining personal and productivity goals
 Connects with every customer by asking open-ended questions to assess needs
 Ability to learn and share expertise of products and trends to fit customer’s needs
 Maintains an awareness of all product knowledge, and current or upcoming product /
trends Contributes to a positive and inclusive work environment
 0-3 year of retail experience
 Confident and comfortable engaging customers to deliver an elevated experience
 Motivated to achieve great results because of one's enthusiasm from interacting with
customers and athletic products
 Initiates completion of tasks or activities without necessary supervision
 Flexible availability – including nights, weekends, and holidays
 Achieve weekly sales targets and deliver on customer service standards

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 Executes on all corporate policies and procedures including Occupational Health and
Safety and Loss Prevention
 Assists in the execution of seasonal changeover, maintenance and restocking of
departments as per current merchandising planner
 Executes on merchandising, and pricing/signing and Sale Prep plans
 Assists in the preparation and execution of the annual inventory count
Office admin
URL of the job websites
https://www.google.com/search?
ei=BAgmXe_uKIjorQGKv47wAg&q=Office+admin+jobs+in+Canada&oq=Office+admin+j
obs+in+Canada&gs_l=psy-
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a5yCVwQp4wCMAB6BAgLEAE#htidocid=v9OZj4ndgxcoXI0nAAAAAA%3D%3D
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?
jk=83547e6a2f4b70d9&tk=1dfe984bobtdf805&from=serp&vjs=3
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?
jk=9bdbb5da925f7366&tk=1dfe984bobtdf805&from=serp&vjs=3
Job description and job specification
 Carry out administrative activities of establishment
 Oversee and co-ordinate office administrative procedures
 Review, evaluate and implement new administrative procedures.
 Establish work priorities and ensure procedures are followed and deadlines are met.

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 Co-ordinate and plan for office services such as accommodation, relocation,
equipment, supplies, forms, disposal of assets, parking, maintenance and security
services (Basher, 2016).
 Assist in the preparation of operating budget and maintain inventory and budgetary
controls (Williams, 2019). Assemble data and prepare periodic and special reports,
manuals and correspondence.
 Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Fast-paced environment
 Work under pressure: Attention to detail
 Personal Suitability: Effective interpersonal skills; Flexibility; Reliability; Organized
Data analyst
URL of the job websites
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?
jk=70d9b655c5b2d6e5&tk=1dfe9eh8gbtdf803&from=serp&vjs=3
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?
jk=7917e45c08a2d4cf&tk=1dfe9eh8gbtdf803&from=serp&vjs=3
Job description and job specification
 Manage a variety of data sets, including creation, updates, deletion, querying and
archiving, automating reports using various platforms;
 Verify accuracy and completeness of data;
 Support data driven decision-making by building reports, graphs and presentations
that effectively communicate complex information to corporate and mill management
teams;
 Provide subject matter expertise to business partners on available data sources and the
appropriate methodology for conducting analysis;

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 Assist with the research and analysis of key business improvement opportunities;
 Monitor performance of key initiatives.
 Work with Data Stewards to implement effective metrics tracking and reporting
 Set up processes to ensure validity and data integrity in multiple databases
 Analyze data quality metrics and monitors and provide assessments of its quality and
limitations (Agnihotri, Dingus & Hu, 2016).
 Work with IT teams to resolve customer data issues and anomalies as they arise
 Support Steady State and Project teams by providing in depth knowledge of the data
and business rules
 Assist the Quality Assurance team in development of test cases
 Conduct User Acceptance Testing for Customer MDM and Salesforce applications
 Maintain data issues log and participate in prioritization sessions
 Participate in development of the Divisional Business Glossary
 Participate in and/or lead Data Quality resolution workgroups
 Independently undertake data quality initiatives and ad-hoc requests as required (Liu,
Tian & Keatley, 2015)
 Other duties and tasks as assigned by the immediate superior
My selection of job
The job that interests me the most is sales associate. The URL for the job is provided
above and this particular job interests me because though this job profile does not require a
college degree but the fact that I am graduated would provide me with numerous advantages
in this field. As I am self-motivated, I would get plenty of opportunities to earn more in the
form of a sales associate based on commission. Being competitive as well as fast paced, this
sort of commission would provide me with a piece of each sale that is made by me. This
would be a benefit for me because I would get an opportunity for earning more besides

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gaining more experience in this work field. Besides this, I would be able to achieve more
from this job profile because I already have job experience of around 3 years in a certain
organization. Along with this, I would get an additional advantage by receiving an employee
discount on the store merchandise. If I work for a certain store from where I shop regularly, I
would be able to save money with the help of the discount provided and hence maximize the
budget.
One more reason that makes me interested towards this particular job profile because this
field is flexible in nature and numerous retail sales jobs provide the advantage of working as
per my schedule such that I would be allowed to plan my life even after my sales gig. My
disciplined and polite nature would help me in not only keeping the store in proper order but
also deal with customers in an effective manner. Good communication skills will allow me
with communication with customers in an efficient manner along with dealing with their
queries. Along with the earning potential, the job profile of sales associate would also provide
me with unlimited learning potential. The best part of my career in sales would be the fact
that it is undefined. A particular day can involve various actions like researching various new
clients, meeting them, nurturing relationships among the clients and organisation and many
more. Hence it is a profession that is varied and hardly boring.

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References
Agnihotri, R., Dingus, R., Hu, M. Y., & Krush, M. T. (2016). Social media: Influencing
customer satisfaction in B2B sales. Industrial Marketing Management, 53, 172-180.
Basher, S. (2016). Whether Aarong’s sales associate training is effective for retail sector or
not.
Liu, P., Tian, Y., & Keatley, D. A. (2015). Does pay dispersion associate with organizational
performance?. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Management
Science and Engineering Management (pp. 1045-1054). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Williams, K. (2019). Re-Tales: The Rants and Raves of a Mad Sales Associate. SWOSU
Sayre Student Anthology, 1(6), 40.