Trader

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What can be expected?

The school leaver:

• keeps administrative records regarding the company trading activities and accounting and tax records using information technologies;
• executes local and international business transactions, manages the supplier and customer networks;
• can handle the goods, machines and shop equipment, operate the cash register, apply various forms of sale and service;
• manages the goods purchase and sale processes, provides information on products and goods, communicates with the customers, prepares documents for claim procedure and processes customer claims;
• conducts market research, applies the market research results, proposes and implements sales advertising campaigns;
• identifies, enters into and develops contacts to further business activities, observes business ethics and social behaviour and demeanour principles.

Opportunities for the school leaver

• The school leaver has general and vocational secondary education. He or she is equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary for the performance of the chosen profession.
• He or she can work in goods purchase and sales, marketing or logistics department, at the position of a sales clerk, dealer, real estate agent, purchasing agent, commodity expert, marketing clerk or customer claim specialist.
• Depending on the study results achieved he or she can continue studies at a college (school of higher education) or university specializing in trade and services.