Diploma of Retail Management

Retailing is one of the largest employment sectors in Australia, with many sales opportunities for graduates. Retail in the new millennium is a career rather than just a job due to a wide variety of roles evolving within the industry. These roles can include merchandising, selling, marketing, advertising, buying and administration. Retail courses prepare students for a career in a diverse range of businesses including footwear; textiles; fashion; jewellery; floristry; groceries; toys; sporting goods; home ware; hardware; liquor outlets (restricted to those aged 18 years and over); electrical; and manchester.

Note: Completion of a TAFE SA course does not guarantee an employment outcome. Formal requirements other than educational qualifications (eg licensing, professional registration), may apply to some occupations.

Award Courses - SATAC application process

• Applications for 2008 - Semester One must be made through the centralised TAFE Admissions system via SATAC (South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre) by the advertised date.
• Applicants can make one application for up to six course preferences.
• Applications for Places Available courses are made direct to the relevant campus and a separate application is required for each course an applicant wants to study.

• Certificate III in Retail Operations
  Retail Operations includes advanced selling; profiling a retail market; maintaining and ordering stock; and visual display.
• Certificate III in Retail Supervision
  Retail Supervision includes coordinating interaction with customers; coordinating merchandise presentation; co-ordinating sales performance; coordinating workteams; maintaining workplace relationships; store security and store safety; training small groups; and co-ordinating workteams.
• Certificate IV in Retail Management
  Buying merchandise; coordinating a retail office; finance; human resources; inventory and loss control; managing merchandise and store presentation; managing people; preparing the payroll; recruitment; sales and service delivery; store facilities; store security; the working environment; training staff; workplace assessment; and OH&S.
• Diploma of Retail Management
  Change management; communications and strategic planning.

Award Courses - SATAC application process

• Satisfactory completion of SACE Stage 2 (or equivalent)
• Any Certificate II in same area
• Any Certificate III
• Satisfactory achievement in the TAFE SA Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS)

Successful completion of this course provides you with Certificate III in Retail Operations, Certificate III in Retail Supervision, Certificate IV in Retail Management. Students who elect to only do a certain number of modules within this Qualification will receive a Statement of Attainment.

Charges vary between courses and subjects and are based on a rate per hour. Concessions may be available to holders of certain government concession cards, and in some circumstances fees may be paid by instalment. A brochure detailing the refund of fees policy is available at each campus. The standard TAFE SA fee for State Government-subsidised courses undertaken by students enrolled in two consecutive semesters is capped at $1980 in 2008. This fee cap does not apply to all courses.

Students are generally expected to purchase their own textbooks, personal equipment, uniforms and stationery.

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