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Retail jobs made easy

CASHING up: The festive season and all the extra people shopping creates job openings in the retail sectorPHOTO: MBUZENI ZULU
CASHING up: The festive season and all the extra people shopping creates job openings in the retail sectorPHOTO: MBUZENI ZULU

THE festive season is a bumper season for the retail industry. To cope with the influx of shoppers, the sector usually goes on a huge recruitment drive to meet its customer needs.

THE festive season is a bumper season for the retail industry. To cope with the influx of shoppers, the sector usually goes on a huge recruitment drive to meet its customer needs.

For the unemployed, this is the best time to find a job in retail. In retail, like any other career, training is required to have an able workforce and this is where Retail Relate comes in.

Retail Relate addresses critical skills shortages and youth unemployment. This retail and wholesale training company offers targeted training plus a real chance of securing permanent jobs in the industry.

From merchandising to becoming a cashier or store manager, Retail Relate offers more than 120 courses concentrating on this industry.

The organisation consists of a group of retail specialists who, between them, have more than 100 years of experience

The company has secured the support of most of the major retailing groups in South Africa, including TFG (Truworths Foschini Group), Shoprite Checkers, Build It and AD Spitz.

This makes it easy for its graduates to secure internships and job placements after their studies. Courses vary in price and can be from one week to a year. This Seta-accredited group with diverse coaching solutions in retailing uses a combination of theory and practical experience in its teaching. One of its graduates, Regomoditswe Mamogopodi, is now a store manager at Sterns in Moruleng, North West.

She recently benefited from the Retail Relate - Rural Youth Development Project (RYDP) and was enrolled for a year-long course. "While I was studying I was placed in American Swiss as a sales assistant."

Most of the students from disadvantaged communities can get bursaries or funding from the RYDP or Urban Youth Development Project.

The company has branches nationwide and recently opened another one in Northcliff, Johannesburg.

 

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