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 [...]

Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared students’ internship experiences, from University of Florida’s David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research program. Part one highlighted students who interned for Toys “R” Us, Brown Shoe Company, Beall’s Department Stores, Firestone Complete Auto Care and Winn-Dixie. Part two featured students who interned for JC Penney, [...]

If you are a reader of NRF’s BIG Blog, you may have read the interview with Steven Silverstein, CEO of Spencer Gifts. If not, here’s an excerpt from the man who says, “Retailing from Day One got in my veins.” NRF Foundation’s Retail Careers Community may be particularly interested in finding out how Steven became [...]

Last week we shared internship experiences from University of Florida’s David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research program. Part one (of our three-part series), highlighted students who interned for Toys “R” Us, Brown Shoe Company, Beall’s Department Stores, Firestone Complete Auto Care and Winn-Dixie. Part two features students who had internships at JC [...]

“I have fallen in love with retail” and “Opened the door to a plethora of opportunities” – these were a few of the lines that struck me when reading about University of Florida’s students’ internship experiences. UF’s David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research works to prepare students for retail careers by providing [...]