Online Merchants
On the Job
Online Merchants work for companies that only sell products online. They may design business strategies, manage the company's inventory, ship orders, or balance financial records.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Obtain information about goods or services.
- Identify strategic business investment opportunities.
- Market products, services, or events.
- Determine the value of goods or services.
- Update professional knowledge.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
- Analyze business or financial data.
- Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
- Create images of data, locations, or products.
- Create marketing materials.
Typical Working Conditions
- Using e-mail.
- Working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
- Freedom to make decisions without supervision.
- The freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals.
- Sitting.
- Dealing with external customers.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Responsibility for outcomes and results.
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