Street Vendor
What the work is
Sells goods or services to customers at a street or market location.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Sets up and arranges goods, or prepares food, for sale at a street or market location
- Advertises and promotes products to attract customers
- Demonstrates and explains the features and benefits of products to customers
- Maintains inventory levels and restocks products as needed
- Keeps records of sales and inventory for reporting purposes
- Follows health and safety regulations, and maintains a clean and hygienic work environment
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in an equipment hire yard, a Sunday market and a scrap and recycling depot in a fictional country town. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A first-time hirer returns the machine clean, on time, with the job finished
- Your market stall sells out and people ask when you will be back next week
- You find a useful item in a load of scrap and give it a second life
Hard days
- Standing out in the weather with a stall, and the customers are staying away
- A returned machine that is damaged and a customer who says it was already broken
- A load of material that turns out to be more dangerous than the seller said
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 631934, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.