United States
Jobs involved in the act of convincing commercial or retail consumers to purchase products or services. Activities include selling consumer goods like furniture, appliances, automobiles and auto parts, packaged goods like food, beverages and medication, financial products and services, and insurance, real estate, consulting and medical services, among others. You can explore Sub Job Families and linked industry, careers and courses from links below.
Supervisors of Sales Workers
Supervisors of Sales Workers directly coordinate and supervise activities of retail or other sales workers in an establishment or department. Their duties may include management functions, such as budgeting, purchasing, accounting, and personnel work, along with supervisory duties.
Retail Sales Workers
Retail sales workers receive orders and process customers' payment. They also assist them in finding products they want. Typically, they receive and disburse money, exchanging coins, tokens, and chips for customer's money, receive orders for rentals, repairs and services, sell spare parts and merchandise such as motor vehicles, apparels, furniture etc in retail outlets, counters, parts store or repair shop etc. They may issue reciepts to customers and obtain their signature on it.
Sales Representatives, Services
Sales Representatives, (services) sell property, life, casualty, automotive, heath, or other type of insurance, transport and accomodation, advertising time, space or media in signage, publications, TV, internet establishments, or radio, securities or commodities in trading and investment firms, and other services which the company associated to them offers, reaching their customers in person, over the telephone or through letter-writing efforts. They may also work as independent brokers.
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Sales Representatives, (Wholesale and Manufacturing) sell goods for manufacturers or wholesalers. They typically deal with government agencies, businesses and other organizations to sell goods for manufactures or wholesalers. They explain the features of the product to the customers, answer any queries that their customers may have, and negotiate prices. Their work may require substantial scientific or technical knowledge about the items being sold or in the areas such as biology, chemistry, engineering, and electronics.
Other Sales and Related Workers
The Other Sales and Related Workers pathway includes all professionals directly involved in the selling of products, ranging from models, demonstrators and promoters, telemarketers, door to door sellers and vendors, real estate professionals, sales engineers etc. Their duties may include demonstrating merchandise and answering questions for generating public interest in purchasing the product, modelling garments and accessories for prospective buyers at private showings, fashion shows, or retail establishments, operating real estate offices, buying, selling, or renting properties for clients, selling goods and services with having technical background etc.
