In radio, your next job will no doubt be reporting. Prospective employers are looking for demonstrated capacity to learn and make quick, sound judgments, and are less interested in academic backgrounds. You must be flexible, comfortable with people, self-disciplined, and highly motivated. You'll be responsible for monitoring and motivating your sales staff, assisting in the selection of merchandise for your department, making decisions and solving problems. Buying - A buyer decides which goods will be available in a store.
Buyers authorize merchandise purchases from wholesalers, and set the retail prices.
A sensitivity to changing trends, tastes, and styles, and an ability to understand and forecast the preference of your own store's customers is crucial. Buyers must also maintain standards of quality while keeping within certain ranges of affordability. During training, you'll work immediately as an assistant to an experienced buyer. The trainee progresses by observing, asking questions, and offering to take on appropriate responsibilities. Conducts research to authenticate details, such as customs, costumes, manners of speech, architectural styles, modes of transportation, and other items peculiar to given historical period or specific locality, to avoid anachronisms and inaccuracies in presentation of stage or radio dramas or motion pictures.