Ashworth College

Retail Management

Whether your ultimate goal is to run a small department, manage an entire store, or even to work at corporate headquarters, our program will qualify you for career success in the rapidly-growing retail industry. You will learn staffing, store set-up, and how to deal with vendors in your first lessons. The next step will be courses in customer service, planning for growth, making buying decisions, and selecting locations. Then you will learn human resource and information systems management skills, as well as learning to choose merchandise, set prices, initiate sales strategies, control expenses, manage inventory and much more.

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There are 11 lessons in the Retail Management Course. They are challenging and stimulating, yet still relatively easy to follow. Each lesson starts off with a preview of future subject matter, instructor notes, and a vocabulary builder for your field.

You will then have a reading assignment. You will perform exercises to practice and review what you have learned in class. There will be an online open-book exam when your lessons are complete.

Retail managers have a very wide range of responsibilities.

Ordinarily, you may be responsible for one or more of the following tasks:

Manage ad campaigns
Manage budgets
Hire and train staff
Supervise the implementation of new procedures
Oversee departmental productivity
Supervise products pricing and displays
Organize shelves and stock
Make purchasing decisions

The service sector in retail is enjoying rapid growth, which should result in an increased number of employment opportunities for retail supervisors and managers. The Internet allows new opportunities and abilities to communicate with potential customers. Oftentimes in retail stores, promotions to management will be given to a current employee. We will give you the skills needed to open and run a successful store.

Fashion Retailing

Our Fashion Retailing courses will help you be one of the lucky few to get your fashion work advertised. We can help prepare you for a future fashion show that you will be planning and producing. How are consumer fashion trends set exactly? This course can get you there.

You will watch as the exciting world of fashion buying and retailing come alive, while you develop the skills employed by fashion forecasters, fashion show producers, retail managers, personal shoppers, and others. You will see fashion retailers in a number of rewarding and exciting positions, working in settings like: specialty stores, boutiques, department stores, discount chains, wholesale clothing dealers, and companies that design apparel. They are always on the move - making new contacts, going to trade shows, and traveling around to buy new products. Your job will include activities such as pricing, in-store displays, and special promotions.

With retail shops in the United State numbering upwards of one million alone, talented, enthusiastic fashion retailers and merchandisers have a large number of employment opportunities to choose from.

You might find yourself working in one of these rewarding and exciting jobs:

Clothing buyer
Personal shopper
Specialty manager
Manufacturer’s representative
Fashion director
Fashion stylist