Occupation Atlastechnical sales representative
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c956be07-53a3-4b01-b8f8-f0c5a428eaa8
technical sales representative
Technical sales representatives act for a business to sell its merchandise while providing technical insight for customers.
Compare with another occupationCompare with technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment
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, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (28)
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.
- answer requests for quotation
- apply technical communication skills
- characteristics of products
- characteristics of services
- communicate with customers
- contact customers
- demonstrate motivation for sales
- demonstrate products' features
- ensure client orientation
- ensure compliance with legal requirements
- guarantee customer satisfaction
- have computer literacy
- implement customer follow-up
- implement marketing strategies
- implement sales strategies
- keep records of customer interaction
- keep records on sales
- maintain relationship with customers
- manage schedule of tasks
- produce sales reports
- product comprehension
- prospect new customers
- provide customer follow-up services
- record customers' personal data
- respond to customers' inquiries
- sales promotion techniques
- supervise sales activities
- use customer relationship management software
Optional (28)
- ICT software specifications
- address problems critically
- agricultural equipment
- chemical products
- consumer protection
- create solutions to problems
- credit card payments
- e-commerce systems
- e-procurement
- electronic and telecommunication equipment
- electronic business
- electronic communication
- hardware, plumbing and heating equipment products
- industrial tools
- international commercial transactions rules
- issue sales invoices
- machinery products
- market pricing
- mining, construction and civil engineering machinery products
- multimedia systems
- office equipment
- perform customers’ needs analysis
- sales activities
- sales strategies
- speak different languages
- textile industry machinery products
- types of aircraft
- types of maritime vessels
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 28 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in chemical products
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in electronic and telecommunications equipment
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in mining and construction machinery
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry
28 shared · 1 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment
28 shared · 5 more of its owndemonstrate motivation for sales, keep records on sales, implement customer follow-up, contact customers
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