Stockers and Order Fillers

Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Stock Clerks and Order Fillers

Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.

Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.

Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.

Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.

Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.

Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.

Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.

Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.

Compare merchandise invoices to items actually received to ensure that shipments are correct.

Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.

Transport packages to customers' vehicles.

Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.

Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.

Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.

Provide assistance or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.

Clean display cases, shelves, and aisles.

Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.

Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.

Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.

Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.

Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.

Compute prices of items or groups of items.

Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.

Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.

Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.

Baling equipment

Barcode scanners

Box cutters

Computer laser printers

Double deckers

Electric hoists

Electronic cash registers

Industrial forklifts

Lifting belts

Overhead workshop cranes

Packing material compactors

Personal computers

Pricing guns

Radio frequency RF scanner guns

Safety cutters

Stepladders

Warehouse dollies

Data entry software

Email software

Handheld computer device software

Microsoft Excel

Ordering software

Work scheduling software

10-key calculators

Computer inkjet printers

Copy machines

Industrial scissors

Label removers

Manual shears

Office intercom systems

Personal digital assistants PDAs

Rubber marking stamps

Shelf scrapers

Sign printers

Staple guns

Ticket-printing machines

Microsoft Word

Electric marking tools

Hand trucks

Labeling equipment

Laser scanners

Lifting platforms

Utility tug trucks

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Microsoft Office

Cherry pickers

Conveyor belts

Handheld radio frequency RF scanners

Measuring tapes

Multiline telephone systems

Nailing hammers

Remote data terminals

Shipping scales

Strapping machines

Tape guns

Wrapping equipment

Voice picking software

self-motivate day by day, make a schedule of activities to be done in the day. for example in the morning study, in the afternoon work, and at night household chores.

organize the tasks to be done a few minutes before starting work, so there will be a better development of work.

Stock Merchandise Flow Associate

when I post job interviews, I had the level of English very low, so I was told that it would be very difficult to find some work that gives me the opportunity to learn the language.

Pamela Flores

Stock Merchandise Flow Associate

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Pamela Flores

Stock Merchandise Flow Associate

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

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