Marketing, Sales and Services

Find Employers with Marketing, Sales and Service Occupations

Types of careers, abilities, skills, and training ideas for this career path:

Advertising Sales Agents: Sell or solicit advertising, including graphic art, advertising space in publications, custom made signs, or TV and radio advertising time. May obtain leases for outdoor advertising sites or persuade retailer to use sales promotion display items.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; speech clarity; speech recognition; active listening; speaking; writing; social perceptiveness; persuasion; service orientation; sales and marketing; customer and personal service; English language
Training Programs: Advertising

Demonstrators and Product Promoters: Demonstrate merchandise and answer questions for the purpose of creating public interest in buying the product. May sell demonstrated merchandise.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; speech clarity; speech recognition; active listening; speaking; critical thinking; persuasion; social perception; coordination; sales and marketing; customer and personal service; English language
Training Programs: Retailing and retail operations 

First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Non-Retail Sales Workers: Directly supervise and coordinate activities of sales workers other than retail sales workers. May perform duties, such as budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; oral comprehension; speech recognition; speaking; active listening; critical thinking; social perception; coordination; management of personnel resources; sales and marketing; English language; customer and personal service
Training Programs: Special products marketing operations; business management; marketing 

Insurance Sales Agents: Sell life, property, casualty, health, automotive, or other types of insurance. May refer clients to independent brokers, work as independent broker, or be employed by an insurance company.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral comprehension; written comprehension; oral expression; active listening; reading comprehension; writing; persuasion; service orientation; time management; customer and personal service; sales and marketing; English language
Training Programs: Insurance

Real Estate Brokers: Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; oral comprehension; written comprehension; speaking; critical thinking; active listening; social perceptiveness; persuasion; judgment and decision making; sales and marketing; customer and personal service; English language
Training Programs: Real estate 

Real Estate Sales Agents: Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties, such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; oral comprehension; speech clarity; active listening; speaking; critical thinking; persuasion; negotiation; social perceptiveness; sales and marketing; customer and personal service; English language
Training Programs: Real estate 

Sales Engineers: Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; oral comprehension; written comprehension; reading comprehension; speaking; active listening; persuasion; social perception; judgment and decision making; customer and personal service; sales and marketing; engineering and technology
Training Programs: Selling skills and sales operations�

Telemarketers: Solicit orders for goods or services over the telephone.
Important Abilities & Skills: Oral expression; oral comprehension; speech clarity; speaking; active listening; reading comprehension; persuasion; social perception; service orientation; sales and marketing; English language; customer and personal service
Training Programs: Insurance; sales, distribution, and marketing operations; selling skills and sales operations

Education and training for this career path:
Agriculture Sciences ; Ethnic Studies ; Arts (Visual, Music, Entertainment) ; Biological Studies ; Business (Finance/Accounting/HR) ; Communication/Journalism ; Computer & Information Sciences ; Construction Trades ; Education ; Engineering ; Engineering Related Technology ; English ; Family Consumer Sciences ; Health ; History ; Language ; Law ; Library Science ; Marketing ; Math/Statistics ; Mechanical Engineering Technology ; Environmental, Natural, Resource Science ; Parks, Recreation & Fitness ; Hospitality/Culinary ; Philosophy/Religion ; Physical Sciences ; Production Trades ; Psychology ; Public Administration ; Social Sciences ; Transportation/Logistics