PHI 201 Strayer Univeristy W8 Commercial Sales Manager Discussion

Week 8 Discussion

As we move toward your final assignment and the end of the course, it’s time to start thinking about how you can promote your employability by using what you’ve learned from the 10 Skills. For this discussion, complete the following:

Find a job posting that you are interested in. Consider searching popular sites like O*NET or Indeed. The position should have been posted within the last 90 days.

Post a link to the listing at the top of your discussion post and briefly describe the job (15–20 words maximum).

Choose 2–3 of the 10 Skills listed below and explain how you can use them to promote yourself for the position. Make specific connections between the post and the 10 Skills. NOTE: Concentrate on areas where the 10 Skills connect to the posting and omit education requirements, certifications, or required years of professional experience.

10 Skills:

Self and Social Awareness

Technology

Productivity

Initiative

Results Driven

Communication

Relationship Building

Problem Solving

Innovation

Agility

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Please respond to my classmate’s entry below

Danielle Ayers

https://www.indeed.com/q-Full-Time-l-Corning,-NY-j…

This job will train you to be a store manager for the company. You will learn day to day tasks, ensuring overall store performance, managing employees and developing a team, and developing store plans to be successful. The job will prepare you to run your own store by having you practice tasks that you need in order to be successful. Some skills I can use to promote myself for this position are communication, problem solving, and innovation. As a store manager, communication is very important. You will need to be able to communicate with corporate, employees, vendors, and customers. Being able to communicate clearly and efficiently is needed to be successful. Problem solving is a skill that will also be important, because you are bound to run into problems with day to day operations. Problems with employees or shipments not showing up on time could affect you. Also, being able to handle unhappy customers will involve problem solving skills. Lastly innovation is very important to be successful. You will need to use innovation to sell products. This is may involve setting up displays so certain products sell better or finding replacements for products that are no longer available.