Tips

Are you looking for a retail job? Be proactive!

• Show that you possess the indispensable attitudes for sales and customer service: human-relations skills, empathy, listening skills, professionalism, cheerfulness and more!
  
  
• Deliver your résumé directly to retail businesses that advertise available jobs.
  
  
• Ask to complete a job application if the company has one available
  
  
• Consult job-search Web sites such as: Jobboom, Monster.ca or Workopolis.
  
  
• Apply directly on line, on retailers' Web sites.
  
  
• Talk about your retail career aspirations with friends and acquaintances, especially with those already employed in the sector.
  
  
• Read newspapers and consult the "classifieds" sections.
  
  
• Use the placement services available in educational institutions.
  
  
• Participate in career days and visit job fairs.
  
  
• Use your imagination!