{"id":263,"date":"2011-04-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/career-advice\/training-and-preparation-for-retail-careers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T01:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:13:48","slug":"training-and-preparation-for-retail-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/training-and-preparation-for-retail-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Training and preparation for retail careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do I need post-secondary training or a degree to do retail?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"229\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4423\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shelfspace_Logo_MASTER_BW_w_URL_2011.gif\" alt=\"Shelfspace_Logo_MASTER_BW_w_URL_2011\" \/>\u00a0As with every industry these days, individuals with additional education will have the opportunity to advance further. While some may people may still be promoted on retail experience alone, taking additional courses or going back to school for marketing, sales, customer service or design will help you reach your retail career goals.<\/p>\n<h2>Where can I get additional training?<\/h2>\n<p>Shelfspace<\/p>\n<p>Shelfspace has developed PEAK retail training, retail-specific courses in customer service, sales skills and leadership development, to assist owners, managers and staff become more productive, valued and rewarded in their employment. PEAK has been developed based on feedback from retail entrepreneurs and real world skill gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a retail owner, manager or sales person, there is a course for you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelfspace.ca\/Resources\/PEAK-Retail-Training.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shelfspace Training<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BC Institute of Technology (BCIT) \u2013 various courses in marketing management<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcit.ca\">www.bcit.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capilano College \u2013 various courses in retail marketing<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capilanou.ca\">www.capilanou.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Douglas College \u2013 various courses in marketing<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.douglascollege.ca\">www.douglascollege.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justice Institute of BC \u2013 various courses in time management, conflict resolution, communication, leadership development, and performance management<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.jibc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kwantlen University College \u2013 various courses in business and marketing<br \/>\nwww.kwantlen.bc.ca<\/p>\n<p>Langara College \u2013 various courses in marketing and sales and in business computer applications<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.langara.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.langara.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open University (OU) and Open College (OC), Divisions of the Open Learning Agency (OLA) \u2013 courses in marketing, professional selling and computer applications in business<br \/>\nwww.ola.bc.ca\/ou\/<\/p>\n<p>Simon Fraser University \u2013 various courses and programs in business administration, marketing, business management, and professional development<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sfu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFC) \u2013 various programs in business administration, marketing and sales<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/\">www.ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia (UBC) \u2013 various courses and programs in commerce, business administration, marketing and professional development<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/jobseekers\">Job Alerts<\/a> to receive email notifications about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/retail-jobs\">retail jobs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with every industry these days, individuals with additional education will have the opportunity to advance further. While some may people may still be promoted on retail experience alone, taking additional courses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}