Sales Assistant - Clothing, Footwear and Accessories
621111 · Light Next-day readyRetail sales assistants serve customers, maintain stock items and process sales and returns.
Description
Sells goods and services at a retail or wholesale level and includes products such as clothing, footwear and accessories.
Typical work tasks
Determines customer requirements and advises on product range, price, delivery, warranties and product use and care; demonstrates and explains to customers the establishment's goods and services; sells goods and services; accepts payment for goods and services by a variety of payment methods and prepares sales invoices; assists with the ongoing management of stock such as product inventories and participates in stocktakes; stacks and displays goods for sale, and wraps and packs goods sold.
Typical work environment
- Indoor retail shop environment or wholesalers.
- Works at counters and deals directly with the public.
- Will usually work in adequately heated and ventilated
- Workspaces will usually be clean and well-maintained and set-up to provide a welcoming sales environment for customers.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Sedentary to light work.
- Staff frequently stand at sales counters or walk about the establishment to assist customers and locate merchandise. They may sit occasionally on high stools.
- Lifts and passes items purchased across scanners and may need to wrap or package goods.
- Occasional stretching and or twisting movements may be when reaching up or down to shelves or rails.
- Bending, squatting or crouching movements may be required for lifting products.
- Lifting, pulling or carrying requirements will be occasional and of a sedentary to light demand level.
- Repetitive hand and finger movements are necessary when operating electronic tills, computers and pricing guns.
- Driving is not likely to be required.
- Use of office hand-held equipment such as pens or calculators will be occasional.
- Mental skills necessary include communication, memory, recording and calculating skills.
No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.
How this was determined (model-generated): Clothing/footwear sales assistant; entry req is 'Nil' - no barrier, no licence.
Entry Requirements
Nil (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).
Further Comments
- There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.