Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · RQF Level 2
Skillsfirst Level 2 Certificate in Retail Skills (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits24
- Units in this qualification82
Awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skillsfirst Awards Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advise customers upon measuring and planning for the fixing of tilesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Advise customers upon measuring and planning for the fixing of tiles
- Advise customers upon measuring and planning for the fixing of tiles
Advise customers upon the fixing of tilesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Advise customers upon the fixing of tiles
- Advise customers upon the fixing of tiles
Allocate and check work in your teamReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop skills to allocate and check work in their team
- Use appropriate behaviours for allocating and checking work in their team
- Know and understand how to allocate and check work in their team using general knowledge
- Know and understand how to allocate and check work in their team using industry and sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to allocate and check work in their team using context specific knowledge
Assemble retail products in customer's home/workplaceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Transport retail products to the customer’s premises
- Put retail products together at the customer’s premises
- Transport products to the customer’s premises
- Put retail products together at the customer’s premises
Audit stock levels and stock inventories in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Put an audit programme into practice in a retail environment
- Report the findings of a retail stock audit
- Put an audit programme into practice in a retail environment
- Report the findings of a retail stock audit
Cash up in a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Cash up in a retail store
- Cash up in a retail store
Check stock levels and sort out problems with stock levels in a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check stock levels and sort out problems with stock levels
- Check stock levels and sort out problems with stock levels
Check the accuracy of records of hours worked in a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check the accuracy of records of hours worked in a retail store
- Check the accuracy of records of hours worked in a retail store
Choose merchandise to feature in visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret requirements for retail displays
- Choose and agree retail merchandise to be featured in displays
- Interpret requirements for retail displays
- Choose and agree retail merchandise to be featured in displays
Contribute to dough production control and efficiencyReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise own activities within dough production schedule
- Contribute to the identification of improvements to dough processing
- Organise own activities within dough production schedule
- Contribute to the identification of improvements to dough processing
Contribute to food safety in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how they contribute to food safety in a retail environment
- Contribute to food safety in a retail environment
Contribute to monitoring and maintaining ease of shopping in a retail sales areaReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
This unit teaches learners how to contribute to maintaining ease of shopping in retail sales areas. You'll identify potential issues, implement solutions, and maintain safe, accessible environments to enhance the shopping experience.
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to monitoring and maintaining ease of shopping in a retail sales area, including identifying potential issues and solutions.
- Contribute to monitoring and maintaining ease of shopping in a retail sales area by implementing agreed actions and reporting any concerns.
Control deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourtReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to receive deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Control deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Prepare to receive deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Control deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
Deliver retail products to the customer's premisesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Deliver retail products to the customer’s premises
- Deliver retail products to the customer’s premises
Demonstrate products to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate retail products to customers
- Help customers choose products in a retail store
- Demonstrate retail products to customers
- Help customers choose products in a retail store
Develop individual retail service opportunitiesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Make plans for finding new retail clients
- Market your service to potential retail clients
- Make plans for finding new retail clients
- Market your service to potential retail clients
Develop productive working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
- Use appropriate behaviours for developing productive working relationships with colleagues
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using general knowledge
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using industry and sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using context specific knowledge
Dismantle and store visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Dismantle retail displays
- Store equipment, props and graphics for retail displays
- Dismantle retail displays
- Store equipment, props and graphics for retail displays
Display stock to promote sales to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
You'll gain skills to prepare, set up, dismantle, and label retail stock displays. The unit covers visual merchandising principles, health and safety considerations, and the use of appropriate materials to enhance customer engagement.
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare display areas and materials in a retail store, ensuring they are clean, safe, and visually appealing
- Set up and dismantle displays in a retail store, following established procedures and health and safety regulations
- Label displays of stock in a retail store, providing accurate and informative product details
- Prepare display areas and materials in a retail store, in line with brand guidelines and promotional campaigns
- Set up and dismantle displays in a retail store, minimising disruption to customers and staff
- Label displays of stock in a retail store, using clear and concise language that attracts customer attention
Establish customer needs and provide advice regarding tiling productsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish customer needs and provide advice regarding tiling products
- Establish customer needs and provide advice regarding tiling products
Evaluate the receipt of payments from customersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate takings practices and procedures in a retail environment
- Monitor takings practices and processes at the cash point in a retail environment
- Evaluate takings practices and procedures in a retail environment
- Monitor takings practices and processes at the cash point in a retail environment
Finish meat products by hand in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check the suitability of meat products for finishing in a retail environment
- Prepare to finish meat products in a retail environment
- Achieve meat product yield and finish in a retail environment
- Check the suitability of meat products for finishing in a retail environment
- Prepare to finish meat products in a retail environment
- Achieve meat product yield and finish in a retail environment
Follow guidelines for dressing visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Dress in-store displays to guidelines
- Dress window displays to guidelines
- Evaluate and improve retail displays
- Dress in-store displays to guidelines
- Dress window displays to guidelines
- Evaluate and improve retail displays
Follow guidelines for planning and preparing visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret design briefs for retail displays
- Get hold of merchandise and props to be featured in retail displays
- Interpret design briefs for retail displays
- Get hold of merchandise and props to be featured in retail displays
Follow point-of-sale procedures for age-restricted products in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Follow procedures for retail sales of age-restricted products
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Follow procedures for retail sales of age restricted products
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisationReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish an effective rapport with customers
- Respond appropriately to customers
- Communicate information to customers
- Know and understand how to do their job in a customer friendly way
Hand divide, mould and shape fermented doughsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Hand divide fermented doughs
- Hand mould and shape fermented doughs
- Hand divide fermented doughs
- Hand mould and shape fermented doughs
Help customers choose products in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help customers choose products in a retail store
- Check the customer's preferences and buying decisions when making retail sales
- Help customers choose products in a retail store
- Check the customer's preferences and buying decisions when making retail sales
Help customers to apply for the store's credit card and associated insurance productsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Offer customers insurance products associated with the store’s credit card
- Offer customers insurance products associated with the store’s credit card
- Help customers to apply for the store’s credit card and associated insurance products
- Help customers to apply for the store’s credit card and associated insurance products
Help customers to buy National Lottery products in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Sell National Lottery products to retail customers
- Follow procedures for retail sales of age-restricted products
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Sell National Lottery products to retail customers
- Follow procedures for retail sales of age restricted products
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
Help customers to choose alcoholic beverages in a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help customers to choose alcoholic beverages in a retail store
- Help customers to choose alcoholic beverages in a retail store
Help customers to choose delicatessen products in a retail outletReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help customers to choose delicatessen products in a retail outlet
- Help customers to choose delicatessen products in a retail outlet
Help to keep the retail unit secureReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help to keep the retail environment secure
- Help to keep the retail environment secure
Help to maintain health and safety in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with accidents and emergencies in a retail environment
- Help to reduce risks to health and safety in a retail environment
- Deal with accidents and emergencies in a retail environment
- Help to reduce risks to health and safety in a retail environment
Improve the customer relationshipReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Improve communication with customers
- Balance the needs of their customers and their organisation
- Exceed customer expectations to develop the relationship with the customer
- Know and understand how to improve the customer relationship
Keep stock on sale at required levels in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check the level of stock on sale in a retail environment
- Replenish stock on sale in a retail environment
- Check the level of stock on sale in a retail environment
- Replenish stock on sale in a retail environment
Load orders for despatch from a retail store to customersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Load orders for despatch from a retail store to customers
- Load orders for despatch from a retail store to customers
Look after the customer in the laundry or dry cleaning industryReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and deal with customers’ needs
- Process items for cleaning
- Process payments
- Promote products or services to customers
- Pack items for customers
- Deal with complaints
- Keep accurate records, complete forms, reports and other documentation
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and customers
Maintain a display of cut flowers in a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain a display of cut flowers in a retail store
- Maintain a display of cut flowers in a retail store
Maintain food safety while working with food in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain food safety while working with food in a retail environment
- Maintain food safety while working with food in a retail environment
Make props for visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the requirements for props and prototypes for retail displays
- Make life-size copies of items for retail displays
- Make scale models of items for retail displays
- Decorate fixtures and panels for retail displays
- Confirm the requirements for props and prototypes for retail displays
- Make life-size copies of items for retail displays
- Make scale models of items for retail displays
- Decorate fixtures and panels for retail displays
Maximise product sales in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
This unit focuses on maximising retail product sales by identifying sales opportunities through data analysis and competitor monitoring. You'll also develop skills to promote products effectively in line with organisational policies.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities to increase retail sales of particular products, considering factors such as seasonality and promotions
- Promote particular retail products, using appropriate techniques and communication methods
- Identify opportunities to increase retail sales of particular products, based on customer behaviour and market trends
- Promote particular retail products, adhering to organisational guidelines and sales targets
Monitor and evaluate the quality of service provided to your customers by external suppliersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the quality of customer service provided by external suppliers to the learner’s retail customers
- Evaluate and improve external suppliers’ service to the learner’s retail customers
- Monitor the quality of customer service provided by external suppliers to the learner’s retail customers
- Evaluate and improve external suppliers’ service to the learner’s retail customers
Monitor and solve customer service problemsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Solve immediate customer service problems
- Identify repeated customer service problems and options for solving them
- Take action to avoid the repetition of customer service problems
- Know and understand how to monitor and solve customer service problems
Monitor and support secure till use during trading hoursReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and support secure till use during trading hours
- Monitor and support secure till use during trading hours
Order graphic materials for visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Order graphic materials to meet retail display needs
- Position graphic materials to support retail displays
- Order graphic materials to meet retail display needs
- Position graphic materials to support retail displays
Organise the delivery of reliable customer serviceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise the delivery of reliable customer service
- Review and maintain customer service delivery
- Use recording systems to maintain reliable customer service
- Know and understand how to organise the delivery of reliable customer service
Pick products in a retail store to fulfil customer ordersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Pick products in a retail store to fulfil customer orders
- Pick products in a retail store to fulfil customer orders
Plan, monitor and control how graphics are used in visual merchandising displaysReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and get hold of graphic materials for retail displays
- Co-ordinate how graphic materials are used in retail displays
- Check how graphic materials are used in retail displays
- Identify and get hold of graphic materials for retail displays
- Co-ordinate how graphic materials are used in retail displays
- Check how graphic materials are used in retail displays
Portion delicatessen products in a retail outlet to meet individual customers' requirementsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Portion delicatessen products in a retail outlet to meet individual customers’ requirements
- Portion delicatessen products in a retail outlet to meet individual customers’ requirements
Prepare newspapers and magazines for return to the merchandiserReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare newspapers and magazines for return to the merchandiser
- Prepare newspapers and magazines for return to the merchandiser
Prepare products for sale to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare products for selling to retail customers
- Prepare products for selling to retail customers
Process bake-off products for sale in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Bake products for sale (bake off) in a retail environment
- Glaze, coat and decorate bake off products in a retail environment
- Bake products for sale (bake off) in a retail environment
- Glaze, coat and decorate bake off products in a retail environment
Process cash and credit transactions in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Process retail customer credit
- Process payments made to retail customer accounts
- Reconcile retail customer accounts
- Process retail customer credit
- Process payments made to retail customer accounts
- Reconcile retail customer accounts
Process customer orders for goods in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check the availability of goods for retail orders
- Process orders for retail customers
- Check the availability of goods for retail orders
- Process orders for retail customers
Process donated goods for resale or recycling in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Process donated goods in a retail environment for selling or recycling
- Process donated goods in a retail environment for selling or recycling
Process fish and shellfish for sale in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to hand-process fish and shellfish in a retail environment
- Process fish and shellfish using hand tools in a retail environment
- Prepare to hand-process fish and shellfish in a retail environment
- Process fish and shellfish using hand tools in a retail environment
Process greengrocery products for sale in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare greengrocery products in a retail environment for selling to customers
- Display greengrocery products to attract retail sales
- Prepare greengrocery products in a retail environment for selling to customers
- Display greengrocery products to attract retail sales
Process payments and credit applications for purchases in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work out the price of customers’ retail purchases
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Process applications from retail customers for credit facilities
- Work out the price of customers’ retail purchases
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Process applications from retail customers for credit facilities.
Process payments for purchases in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work out the price of customers’ retail purchases
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Work out the price of customers’ retail purchases
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
Process returned goods and materials in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help retail customers who need to return goods
- Process returns of retail goods
- Help retail customers who need to return goods
- Process returns of retail goods
Process the self-service dispensing and purchase of motor fuel on a forecourtReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Authorise and monitor the self-service dispensing of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
- Authorise and monitor the self-service dispensing of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Provide service at point of sale in a retail store
Promote beauty products to retail customersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate beauty products to retail customers
- Maintain the customer record card system in a retail store
- Demonstrate beauty products to retail customers
- Maintain the customer record-card system in a retail store
Promote continuous improvement in customer serviceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan improvements in customer service based on customer feedback
- Implement changes in customer service
- Review changes to promote continuous improvement
- Know and understand how to promote continuous improvement
Promote loyalty schemes to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain to customers the features and benefits of the loyalty scheme
- Gain customer commitment to the loyalty scheme
- Explain to customers the features and benefits of the loyalty scheme
- Gain customer commitment to the loyalty scheme
Promote sales of food or drink products by offering samples to customersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
You'll gain knowledge and skills to promote food and drink sales through sampling. The unit covers product appeal, legal compliance, safe sample provision, and effective communication of product features to customers.
What you'll be able to do
- Promote sales of food or drink products by offering samples to customers
- Promote sales of food or drink products by offering samples to customers, in accordance with organisational procedures and legal requirements
Promote the store's credit card to customersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Promote the store’s credit card to customers
- Promote the store’s credit card to customers
Provide a counter/take-away serviceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Serve customers at the counter
- Maintain counter and service areas
- Serve customers at the counter
- Maintain counter and service areas
Provide a personalised sales and after-sales service to your retail clientsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
You'll develop the ability to provide personalised sales and after-sales services by understanding customer needs and preferences. The unit covers techniques for gathering customer information, handling queries, and ensuring customer satisfaction in retail.
What you'll be able to do
- Provide a personalised service to retail clients, tailoring interactions to individual needs and preferences
- Provide an after-sales service to retail clients, addressing queries, resolving issues, and ensuring customer satisfaction
- Provide a personalised service to retail clients, demonstrating empathy, building rapport, and exceeding expectations
- Provide an after-sales service to retail clients, handling complaints effectively, processing returns, and offering appropriate solutions
Provide information and advice to customers in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide information and advice to meet the needs of retail customers
- Help retail customers sort out complaints
- Provide information and advice to meet the needs of retail customers
- Help retail customers sort out complaints
Provide service to customers in the dressing room of a retail storeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use the dressing room facilities to create sales opportunities
- Use the dressing room facilities to create sales opportunities
- Keep dressing room facilities ready for customer use
- Keep dressing room facilities ready for customer use
Provide specialist support in helping customers to make purchases in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Give retail customers information and advice on specialist products
- Demonstrate specialist products to retail customers
- Give retail customers information and advice on specialist products
- Demonstrate specialist products to retail customers
Provide the lingerie fitting service in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the retail customer’s needs for lingerie
- Measure and fit the retail customer for lingerie
- Check the customer's preferences and buying decisions when making retail sales
- Identify the retail customer’s needs for lingerie
- Measure and fit the retail customer for lingerie
- Check the customer's preferences and buying decisions when making retail sales
Put goods and materials into storage in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check storage arrangements for goods and materials in a retail environment
- Put goods and materials into storage in a retail environment
- Check storage arrangements for goods and materials in a retail environment
- Put goods and materials into storage in a retail environment
Put visual merchandising displays togetherReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret retail display layout requirements from plans, elevations and drawings
- Follow guidelines for putting retail display layouts together
- Interpret retail display layout requirements from plans, elevations and drawings
- Follow guidelines for putting retail display layouts together
Receive driver-controlled deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourtReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to receive deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Check that driver-controlled deliveries of motor fuel have been completed safely
- Prepare to receive deliveries of motor fuel on a forecourt
- Check that driver-controlled deliveries of motor fuel have been completed safely
Receive goods and materials into storage in a retail environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to receive deliveries in a retail environment
- Receive deliveries into storage in a retail environment
- Prepare to receive deliveries in a retail environment
- Receive deliveries into storage in a retail environment
Resolve Customer Service ProblemsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Spot customer service problems
- Pick the best solution to resolve customer service problems
- Take action to resolve customer service problems
- Know and understand how to resolve customer service problems
Select, weigh and measure dough ingredientsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and select dough ingredients
- Weigh and measure dough ingredients
- Identify and select dough ingredients
- Weigh and measure ingredients
Support Customer Service ImprovementsReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use feedback to identify potential customer service improvements
- Implement changes in customer service
- Assist with the evaluation of changes in customer service
- Know and understand how support customer service improvements
Work effectively in your retail teamReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work effectively in their retail team
- Improve the way they learn in a retail environment
- Work effectively in their retail team
- Improve the way they learn in a retail environment
Work with others to improve customer serviceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Improve customer service by working with others
- Monitor their own performance when improving customer service
- Monitor joint performance when improving customer service
- Know and understand how to improve customer service with others
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Advise customers upon measuring and planning for the fixing of tilesAdvise customers upon the fixing of tilesAllocate and check work in your teamAssemble retail products in customer's home/workplaceAudit stock levels and stock inventories in a retail environmentCash up in a retail storeCheck stock levels and sort out problems with stock levels in a retail storeCheck the accuracy of records of hours worked in a retail store
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Skillsfirst Level 2 Certificate in Retail Skills (QCF)
- Maximise Sales and Profit in Retail
- Process fish or shellfish for retail sale
- Provide Textile Care Customer Services
- Receive deliveries of motor fuel
- Resolve Customer Service Problems
Where this can lead
Returns Processing Specialist
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to giving you the tools and opportunities to grow, whether that's becoming an unparalleled expert in returns or stepping into leadership. We'll support you in figuring out what's next and how to get there.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
Maximise Sales and Profit in RetailProcess fish or shellfish for retail saleProvide Textile Care Customer ServicesReceive deliveries of motor fuelResolve Customer Service Problems
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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Built for Skillsfirst Level 2 Certificate in Retail Skills (QCF)
82 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd.
- Advise customers upon measuring and planning for the fixing of tiles
- Advise customers upon the fixing of tiles
- Allocate and check work in your team
- Assemble retail products in customer's home/workplace
- Audit stock levels and stock inventories in a retail environment
- Cash up in a retail store
and 76 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.