Exploring Career Paths: A Report on the Retail Industry and Management

This report provides an overview of career development opportunities in the retail industry, focusing on the role of a manager. It examines current trends impacting the industry, including technological advancements and the challenges posed by events like the Covid-19 pandemic. The report identifies essential skills, knowledge, and experience required for a management position, such as multi-tasking, leadership, organizational skills, and effective communication. It also evaluates the suitability of the retail sector for personal career growth, highlighting the importance of conceptual and technical skills. The report concludes that the retail industry offers emerging opportunities, emphasizing the need for adaptability and strong communication skills to navigate the evolving business environment. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a variety of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments.

Career view point
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Executive summary
This report generally includes a brief description about the retail industry after
completing the graduation. This industry cover different type of trends and opportunities which
are helpful for seeking jobs and make more effective approach to take advantages and emerging
roles in the market. This report basically helps the various skills, knowledge and area to
expertise the role of manager in retail industry. This will include the evaluation of suitability,
need and capability for the growth of self development in career opportunities.
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Table of Contents
Executive summary ........................................................................................................................2
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................4
Methodology....................................................................................................................................4
Analysis and Application.................................................................................................................4
General trends which will impact on retail industry...................................................................4
The skills and knowledge and experience required....................................................................5
Evaluation...................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References ......................................................................................................................................8
Appendix.........................................................................................................................................9
Primary research.........................................................................................................................9
Job advertisement......................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
To make a plan about the career development at the time of professional practices to
work and make systematic changes in different practices and development. There are different
practices which are helpful for provide appropriate information of the areas which are helpful for
generate different platform and make growth in gathering information. This report consist the
information that are related to manager position in retail industry (Blanco and Golik, 2021).
Hence, it is helpful for generalising the statement and work to make relevant skills, knowledge
and experience to work and need to apply for the role of HR. This is beneficial for the skills and
growth to manage data and provide career development to achieve future aim and objectives.
Methodology
The research which has been conducted to work on the growth of primary and secondary
data. It is beneficial for generalising the statement and work on the major perspective to work
and apply in the retail industry. It is actually related to the quantitative and qualitative research
data to provide accurate theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the use of books, Journals, article and
newspaper to make website to various concepts of retail industry. It is useful for managing the
growth and developed to make effective aim and research in different platform (Kashina and
Nastasyuk, 2021).
Analysis and Application
General trends which will impact on retail industry
Retail industry is the industry which is more growing and effective to work with UK and
achieve appropriate parts of world. It could be beneficial for most happening and challenging
performance to achieve appropriate situations at the time of Covid-19 to faced in economic
growth and development. As many of the business organisation, are facing issues at the time to
work on lead to bear losses which impact on the staff existence. Many of the organisation are
helpful for generate financial stability and loss of income to pay salaries. For the profession of
manager post into the retail industry to make a significant sector in different challenges. This
will be beneficial for the growth in the large market (Koo, Lingappan and Song, 2021). The
trends of the company are basically effective in technological and necessary perspective to seek
jobs in retail industry. Some of the major organisation and aspects for the growth of new
technologies in different sectors. These trends and technologies are helpful for generalising the
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work and make systematic growth into the market and make approaches to analyse systematic
growth and process to achieve successful growth.
The skills and knowledge and experience required
There are different skills and knowledge are required to work on the activities to perform
the job of manager in retail industry. This profession include many of the skills area which are
helpful for handling the data and make effective management functions in the area. It will be
helpful for making job advertisement and apply within the retail industry. The role of HR is
useful and effective to make individual perspective for the growth of different key skills. In order
to achieve accurate information, some information has been used to make employees of different
perspective in described in the appendix (O'Connor and et.al., 2021).
Key skills:
 Multi-tasking: A manager must have the skills to complete task and able to see all
employees at a single time. This skill is helpful for generalised the statement and work to
experience the skills to become the retail stores.
 Leadership: A good manager must know about how to handle their team members for
using effective management skills, problem solving skills for encourage the associated
and make effective engagement practices.
 Organisational skills: Manager should be able to look and make areas in which the rules
to work effectively and improved problem solving skills. It is beneficial for managing
and addressing the time to achieve organisational skills.
 Effective communication: Not only spoken words, body language, facial expression and
tone of voice are related to work on convey the message to work appropriately in
different ways.
 Motivation: It is important to start the leadership programme and work to achieve
leadership growth within an retail industry. This skill is helpful for generalising the
statement and work to achieve higher growth and clear performance expectation to work
in long term success (Öztemel and Yıldız-Akyol, 2021).
Key Knowledge:
 Conceptual skill: This process is basically helpful for the managers to gain knowledge
in abstract thinking and formulating the ideas. This helps the manager to effectively work
and predict the hurdles and make effective business environment as a whole segment.
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 Technical skills: This skill involve the managers for gaining ability to gain knowledge
for gain varieties to achieve their objectives in different manners. This skill provide
specified knowledge to operate machines, software and different type of production tools.
It is basically helpful for generalising the different products and services that are useful
for considering major services (Phạm, 2021).
Evaluation
In the current time period, it is analyse that there are lots of vaccination which are used
and published by the retail industries. Furthermore, to hire the employees and make talented
employees within the organisation, it is important to work appropriately and achieve the full job
description that is applied in the appendix (Presti and Akkermans, 2021). That job role provide a
significant growth in the manager position. As this will help myself to work and make more
interaction to the other people in an organisation to make significant opportunities. I find various
skills and management process that would be helpful for me to complete effective applicability
and gain skills to boost my performance. As, I am completing my graduation so, it will be
helpful for considering major sources and achieve higher performance to boost up the creativity
in thinking skills.
In the retail industry there are some major growing sectors to work in different manage
sectors for the growth in applicabilities. There are some career development for the candidates
who are applicable to build progressive professional aim. I ma studying in management field that
is helpful for become more productive growth and possibilities to manage different practices to
work in retail industry. The main role which is chosen in this retail industry is to provide a brief
introduction and possible ideas to generate and make managerial development to represent the
skills and leadership approach for gain assets for the use of economy at global level.
The position which I have been choosing is to make HR manager and perform the
activities in more extrovert and personality career development. This will be helpful for
managing and growing industry to provide systematic growth in creative ideas and applicabilities
and contribute for managing retail sector growth. In order to overcome with the Covid-19 crises,
I am trying to find a suitable job that would be helpful for me to work effectively and manage
specified solutions in different perspective. I have different skills which are useful for me to
complete and improve my professional career development into the market and gain more
effective approaches. This will be helpful for generalising the statement and make success over
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the period of time (Koo, Lingappan and Song, 2021). Therefore, the HR manager is helpful for
work and make suitable growth of HR to understand the problems in analysing in more effective
and better ways. In the retail industry, it is important to work and make complex business
environment to work and achieve systematic growth in the role of emerging platform. Manager
position of the retail industry will be helpful for the HR role to constant and make crucial
foremost relationship to manage the eliminate the risk from the organisation.
Conclusion
From the above report, it has been concluded that retail industry is most emerging to
achieve emphasis on the rapid technological sectors. It is further analyse that the current trends
which make an impact on the globalisation and technological factors and growth. It will be
helpful for generalising the statement and work on the basis of skills and expertise to be work on
the sustainable communication skills and interpersonal growth and manage. All of these
perspective are helpful for considering to gain market decision and enable to achieve potential
factors to start an effective career development progress.
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References
Books & Journals
Blanco, M.R. and Golik, M.N., 2021. Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin
American CEOs. International Journal of Emerging Markets.
Kashina, M.A. and Nastasyuk, N.P., 2021. Women in the Russian Service for Emergencies:
Motivation for Enter the Service and Career Features. Administrative Consulting.
Koo, J., Lingappan, K. and Song, C., 2021. National professional society augments career
development and leadership amongst neonatal fellows and early career neonatologists.
Journal of Perinatology, pp.1-4.
O'Connor, K.W., McDonald, K.S., McDaniel, B.T. and Schmidt, G.B., 2021. Social media
activity: its impact on career-related perceptions. Development and Learning in
Organizations: An International Journal.
Öztemel, K. and Yıldız-Akyol, E., 2021. The predictive role of happiness, social support, and
future time orientation in career adaptability. Journal of Career Development, 48(3),
pp.199-212.
Phạm, K.A., 2021. Students’ perception of the usefulness of an ESP course to their imagined
career life at a university in Hanoi (Doctoral dissertation).
Presti, A.L., Capone, V., Aversano, A. and Akkermans, J., 2021. Career Competencies and
Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction
during the School-to-Work Transition. Journal of Career Development,
p.0894845321992536.
Online
Store Manager – Local, 2021. [Online]. Available through: <https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?
jk=f0f9db58c96b6ae8&tk=1fjiapma5ttr0801&from=serp&vjs=3>.
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Appendix
Primary research
Questions
Q.1 Do you aware with the current skills and trends that are required within the retail industry?
Q.2 What are the major relevant skills which are helpful for gain necessary to work in retail
industry?
Q.3 What are the major skills and knowledge for gain the position of HR managers?
Q.4 In your opinion, an effective recruitment for hiring the best talent management strategies
are used to work effectively into the market?
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Job advertisement
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Illustration 1: Store Manager – Local, 2021

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Illustration 2: Store Manager – Local, 2021

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