These employees are responsible for various activities from greeting customers, offering assistance and suggestions, lending opinions and providing product information.
The festive season may be over but the demand for blue collar employees continues with sales people, sewing machine operators and delivery executives in good demand.
November saw a 35% jump in number of retail sales associates hired, over October, thanks to many more stores remaining open due to the festive season demand. The wedding season too is creating demand for salespersons. Also, given more offices are opening up, there has been a 20-25% surge in hiring by cab hailing services in November over previous two months. According to Betterplace, a tech platform to manage lifecycle of informal and semi-formal workforces, there is a high demand for people on shopfloors of retail stores.
Source: Financial Express
