This article was updated on April 2020
What To Include In A Retail CV? Sell Yourself!
Retail is a great sector to make a career with a wide variety of jobs to choose from. This also means that there are key competencies that you should have if you want to make it in the industry.
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Therefore, your retail CV should be tailored to match the requirements of each individual job for which you apply, whether is for Sales Assistant or Store Manager.
Be sure to include the following points:
Retail Skills
- Customer relationship building
- Business management
- Supplier management
- Merchandise management
- Stock management
- Staff Management
- Team leadership skills
- Promotion and even management
- Financial planning
- Target Driven
- Good Communication skills
Once you have decided which of the key competencies fit the job then you need to provide solid, real life examples to prove those key competencies. Remember it is not enough to say you can do something you must be able to verify your claims.
If you want more inspiration, check our List of Top Customer Service Skills
Good Selling Words
This will help you highlight your strengths, when used to describe a skill that you hold or a task that you have achieved.
- Overcame
- Contributed
- Won
- Instigated
- Reorganised
- Developed
- Accomplished
- Demonstrated
- Delivered
- Persuaded
- Established
- Led
Extra Boosting Selling Words
These words serve to really emphasise a skill or achievement.
- Enthusiastically
- Quickly
- Consistently
- Effectively
- Decisively
- Assertively
- Positively
- Resourcefully
- Creatively
- Capably
- Efficiently
- Successfully
Don’t forget CV Golden Rules
- No longer than 2 sheet of A4 paper.
- Check your spelling! Nothing worse than a CV with lots of mistakes.
- Simple, clear formatting, you can download one of our templates here.
- Keep your CV concise
- Don’t lie! Recruiters will take their time to check your background and they won’t consider a candidate with a doubtful experience.
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