medical sales representative

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 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.

• advise on medical device features
• advise on medical products
• carry out event management
• carry out sales analysis
• health care system
• issue purchase orders
• keep records on sales
• medical devices materials
• medical sales industry
• medical terminology
• medication classification
• negotiate sales contracts
• organise retail sampling events
• pharmacovigilance legislation
• prospect new customers
• provide customers with order information
• provide legal information on medical devices
• sales argumentation
• sales strategies
• supervise sales activities