Occupation Atlasadvertising sales agent
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f5332f2d-3119-4194-8b5c-d0a5d97f55ef
advertising sales agent
Advertising sales agents sell advertising space and media time to businesses and individuals. They make sales pitches to potential clients and follow up on after-sales.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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
ECAEnterprising · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising6.65
- C Conventional4.34
- A Artistic3.64
- S Social2.96
- I Investigative1.52
- R Realistic1.18
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 Advertising Sales Agents (41-3011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (26)
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.
- advertising techniques
- advise on merchandise features
- answer requests for quotation
- characteristics of products
- characteristics of services
- communicate with customers
- contact customers
- customer relationship management
- deliver a sales pitch
- demonstrate motivation for sales
- ensure client orientation
- ensure compliance with legal requirements
- ensure compliance with purchasing and contracting regulations
- guarantee customer satisfaction
- implement customer follow-up
- implement sales strategies
- keep records of customer interaction
- keep records on sales
- produce sales reports
- prospect new customers
- record customers' personal data
- respond to customers' inquiries
- sales promotion techniques
- sales strategies
- types of media
- use customer relationship management software
Optional (14)
- apply social media marketing
- apply technical communication skills
- carry out sales analysis
- develop media strategy
- develop promotional tools
- media formats
- media planning
- monitor after sales records
- monitor media industry research figures
- outdoor advertising
- perform media outlets research
- provide advertisement samples
- stay up to date with social media
- work with advertising professionals
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
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