After the winning team of this year’s Intercollegiate Retail Challenge delivered their presentation at NRF’s BIG Show, a panel of retail’s top talent developers offered best practices when trying to break into the industry as a college student or recent graduate. Here are a few of their tips: Going abroad. Many companies will be looking [...]

You’ll always find daily mentions of the retail industry in the news. Recent coverage has focused on consumer spending and the health care debate (and covered ad nauseam if you ask me). But, this week, I’ve been particularly excited by a number of interesting news articles that have highlighted the retail industry. Interviews with retail [...]

If you could name your “Dream Employer,” who would it be, and why? BusinessWeek recently ran a story about Universum USA’s annual survey of 60,000 undergraduates about their picks for “ideal employers.” Candidates coming out of college have differing opinions about what makes an “ideal employer.” For some, an appealing employer is a company that [...]

I’ve read a lot of articles recently about the struggles of finding a job in this economy. College students are scared. People who’ve been laid off are scared. People who have jobs are scared. There’s a lot of advice out there to sort through. Some say the old ways are outdated (read=think Web 2.0 strategies). [...]

The NRF Foundation aspires to be the retail industry’s point central for retail career information by creating a virtual “community” of retailers, educators, students, and business partners. NRFF will create this “community” through the new Retail Careers Center website, this blog, and our social networking group on Facebook. These online features will help us create awareness, generate [...]