Wholesale Trade What you need to know Occupations include: Storepersons, Sales This industry involves the purchase and on-selling, Representatives and Advertising and Sales Managers, including commission-based trade, of goods to other Forklift Drivers, Accounting Clerks, Purchasing and businesses. Supply Logistics Clerks and Importers, Exporters and Wholesalers. OUTLOOK 2050 Sales Representatives • 1900 Advertising and Sales Managers • Over the next five years, about 36,000 employees1 are forecast to be needed in the Wholesale Trade Current Skills shortages: industry, including: None • 2150Storepersons • FAST FACTS Contributed $15.3 billion (five per cent) to the Victorian economy in 2012-13 • 85% 22,300 businesses • Employs 130,800 people in Victoria • 15% Employment grew by 5,400 people (four per cent) over the past five years • About 26 per cent of people are employed in the Machinery and Equipment • area, 26 per cent in Other Goods Wholesaling and 21 per cent in Basic Material Wholesaling 85 per cent of people are employed in metropolitan • Melbourne Employed in metropolitan Melbourne 15 per cent of people are employed in regional Victoria • Employed in regional Victoria FINDING A JOB Deciding what career is best for you can be a complex process. A professional careers practitioner can assist. There are a range of training opportunities available across Victoria to help you develop the skills needed to find a job in the Wholesale Trade industry. Government financial support may be available to eligible students under the Victorian Training Guarantee.
Wholesale Trade What you need to know This industry involves the purchase and on-selling, including commission-based trade, of goods to other businesses. Occupations include: Storepersons, Sales Representatives and Advertising and Sales Managers, Forklift Drivers, Accounting Clerks, Purchasing and Supply Logistics Clerks and Importers, Exporters and Wholesalers. OUTLOOK Over the next five years, about 36,000 employees1 are forecast to be needed in the Wholesale Trade industry, including: • 2150Storepersons • 2050 Sales Representatives • 1900 Advertising and Sales Managers Current Skills shortages: • None FAST FACTS • Contributed $15.3 billion (five per cent) to the Victorian economy in 2012-13 • 22,300 businesses • Employs 130,800 people in Victoria • Employment grew by 5,400 people (four per cent) over the past five years • About 26 per cent of people are employed in the Machinery and Equipment area, 26 per cent in Other Goods Wholesaling and 21 per cent in Basic Material Wholesaling 15% 85% • 85 per cent of people are employed in metropolitan Melbourne • 15 per cent of people are employed in regional Victoria FINDING A JOB Employed in metropolitan Melbourne Employed in regional Victoria Deciding what career is best for you can be a complex process. A professional careers practitioner can assist. There are a range of training opportunities available across Victoria to help you develop the skills needed to find a job in the Wholesale Trade industry. Government financial support may be available to eligible students under the Victorian Training Guarantee.
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