For the past four years, you have been a Buyer and/or Marketing Coordinator for a department store or major couture clothing house (think Macy's/Nordstrom/Bloomingdales/Gucci/Chanel). Your manager just announced his/her retirement, and you want to apply to be his/her replacement. Which skills do you have that could convince the company to make you a manager?

Really think through what it might take to be successful as a manager in that industry, etc.; then, take a personal inventory of the skills/traits, etc YOUpossess that would make you a GREAT candidate for that promotion/position