The document discusses career opportunities in the retail industry. For MBAs, there are opportunities in merchandising, store management, and corporate functions like HR, finance, IT, and marketing. Engineers can work in logistics and distribution. The retail industry allows employees to know new products before customers and potentially travel to visit stores. However, retail careers often require hard work and paperwork. The document provides tips for recruitment and internships, and discusses what recruiters look for in candidates. It also notes the importance of the retail industry in people's daily lives.

1. Careers in Retail

2. Opportunities Overview
MBAs
Merchandising Career or
Store management.
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3. Opportunities Overview
MBAs
Enter into the corporate functions such as :
HR, Finance, IT, Marketing and other
corporate tracks
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4. Opportunities Overview
Engineers
Logistics and Distribution

5. Major Pluses
Fun to know what products are going to be
hot before the masses do.
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6. 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.

7. Major Minuses
Less paid
Glamorous but , most jobs require a lot of
drudgery, paperwork and attention
Unstable

8. Recruitment
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9. Campus Recruitment
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10. Internship
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11. Campus Career Center
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12. Keep in touch with alums

13. What Recruiters Want
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14. IT candidates—should be certified in
one or more of the specific
technologies
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15. Finance and Accounting candidates
has to expose themselves with
showing how the business doing
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16. 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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17. Experience dealing with the
pressures caused by change and
aren’t bothered by changing horses
in midstream,

18. Did you ever stop to think about how
big a role the retail industry plays in
people’s daily lives?

19. No
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20. Well. Then, ask yourself the following
questions:

21. 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?

22. If Yes
Means directly or indirectly you will be a
part of Retail.

23. Retail—the selling of products to
individual consumers (as opposed to
selling to businesses)—is big
business.