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Sales Assistant - Toys and/or Educational Products

621111 · Medium Next-day ready

Career data Close match

Retail sales assistants serve customers, maintain stock items and process sales and returns.

Most common salary $50k – $70k
Upper salary up to $91k
Training 0-1 year

Description

Sells goods and services in a retail or wholesale toy, educational supplies, gift or craft store.

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 or wholesale shop environment.
  • Work occurs at counters or on the shop floor and employees deal directly with the public.
  • Employees will usually work in adequately heated and ventilated spaces.
  • Workspaces will usually be clean and well-maintained and set-up to provide a welcoming sales environment for customers.

Typical physical and mental demands

  • Typically light to medium work demand level.
  • Frequently stands at sales counters or walks about the workspace assisting customers, locating merchandise, shelving product or setting up shop displays.
  • Manually or electronically enters customer purchases into the till, receives cash, cheques, eftpos and credit card payments and processes these and issues receipts. May issue customers sales invoices.
  • Lifts and passes items purchased across the scanner (where used) and may need to wrap or pack goods.
  • Stretching and or twisting movements are likely to be required occasionally when moving items on the shop floor or re-stocking shelves.
  • Lifting, pulling or carrying requirements will be occasional and of a light to medium physical demand level for most of these types of products.
  • Bending, squatting or crouching movements are likely to be needed occasionally for the picking up of goods and the demonstration of certain products.
  • Repetitive hand and finger movements are frequently necessary to operate 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.
Entry signal Reviewed

No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.

Entry barrier No formal entry barrier
Licence / registration No licence required
ANZSCO skill level 5
Next-day ready Yes

How this was determined (model-generated): Toys/educational products retail sales; no formal entry requirement or licence.

Entry Requirements

An NZQF Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).

For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.

Further Comments

  • There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.