shop assistant

Shop assistants work in shops where they perform assistance duties. The help shopkeepers in their daily work such as ordering and refilling of goods and stock, providing general advice to customers, selling products and maintaining the shop.

The most in-demand skills for this role include product comprehension, company policies, apply company policies, operate cash register, maintain relationship with customers, examine merchandise. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives shop assistant a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.