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Business Level 3 Unit 2 P2

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The job I have chosen is a Sales Assistant. You are required to have good communication skills and have a positive attitude.
Traveling costs:
18x2= 36x22 days = R792
Total cost = travel cost + accommodation+ food + other
R792 + R2000 + R500 + R200 = R 3 492
Therefore, I will need to make approximately R3 600 to support myself.

The money I earn from being a sales assistant will not be enough to support myself, so I will have to find a way to support myself. One of the thing I could do is share a room with someone and then split the cost of the rent. If someone I know lives close to me and they go in the same direction as the new job, I could as for a possible lift from them and take the bus home. I could also keep back on luxuries, like fast …show more content…

As I do this, I will be able to be more confidant in approaching the consumers and letting them know all that they need to know, in order to buy the product. I will also have to be educated in how to process payments, like knowing how to work with a cash register. In order to do that successfully, I will have to take up a course in accounting or bookkeeping, so that I can do cash and card payments, as well as making sure that the till balances. For more experience, I could work in a store during Christmas time, take up a weekend job or I could volunteer at a charity shop. If I apply to a certain store, then I will have to have good knowledge about the product, otherwise I will not be able to make a successful …show more content…

The money I will get from a part time job won’t be enough to support myself as a part time job doesn’t pay much.
If I do community work then I will be able to grow my community and help it thrive. Unfortunately, like volunteering, I won’t be able to support myself as I won’t get any money from it.
Entrepreneurship will be a great opportunity for me to fill a gap in the market by satisfying the needs of consumers. Being an entrepreneur will help me create jobs for people and be able to get a good enough salary, if my business is able to survive past the developing stage.
It will be difficult to find an informal job, like becoming a house cleaner, as many families already have domestic workers and some are very reluctant to allow people they don’t trust into their homes.
5) I do think that if you have matric it gives you a better chance at getting a job in South Africa because some of the jobs require you to do work that you learn in your last two years of your school career. It also means that you are more informed about certain things because you learnt about

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