| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Fashion Sales Representative |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Negotiate with retail merchants to improve product exposure, such as shelf positioning and advertising.
- Plan, assemble, and stock product displays in retail stores, or make recommendations to retailers regarding product displays, promotional programs, and advertising.
- Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.
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| Advertising Manager |
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
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- Formulate plans to extend business with established accounts and to transact business as agent for advertising accounts.
- Consult publications to learn about conventions and social functions and to organize prospect files for promotional purposes.
- Plan and prepare advertising and promotional material to increase sales of products or services, working with customers, company officials, sales departments and advertising agencies.
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| Merchandiser |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
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- Consult with advertising and sales staff to determine type of merchandise to be featured and time and place for each display.
- Arrange properties, furniture, merchandise, backdrops, and other accessories, as shown in prepared sketches.
- Obtain plans from display designers or display managers, and discuss their implementation with clients or supervisors.
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