Occupation Atlaswholesale merchant in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a5a4e4d6-e705-4b38-96b5-225f8ab01f2c
wholesale merchant in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
Wholesale merchants in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies investigate potential wholesale buyers and suppliers and match their needs. They conclude trades involving large quantities of goods.
Compare with another occupationCompare with wholesale merchant in computer peripheral equipment and software
Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ECIEnterprising · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising5.27
- C Conventional5.14
- I Investigative3.15
- S Social3.12
- R Realistic2.80
- A Artistic1.44
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products (41-4011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (20)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assess supplier risks
- build business relationships
- comprehend financial business terminology
- hardware, plumbing and heating equipment products
- have computer literacy
- identify customer's needs
- identify new business opportunities
- identify suppliers
- initiate contact with buyers
- initiate contact with sellers
- maintain financial records
- monitor international market performance
- negotiate buying conditions
- negotiate sale of commodities
- negotiate sales contracts
- perform market research
- plan transport operations
- product comprehension
- sales strategies
- vertical markets
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 20 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.