What You'll Do

  • Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
  • Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
  • Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
  • Greet customers entering establishments.
  • Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
  • Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
  • Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
  • Cash checks for customers.
  • Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
  • Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.

Essential Skills

Service Orientation 3.12/5
Active Listening 3.0/5
Speaking 3.0/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.0/5
Reading Comprehension 2.75/5
Critical Thinking 2.75/5
Coordination 2.75/5
Mathematics 2.62/5
Monitoring 2.62/5
Time Management 2.62/5
Judgment and Decision Making 2.5/5
Persuasion 2.38/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Dependability, Integrity, Social Orientation, Attention to Detail, Cooperation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.5/5
Oral Expression 3.5/5
Near Vision 3.25/5
Written Comprehension 3.12/5
Speech Clarity 3.12/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.0/5
Information Ordering 3.0/5
Speech Recognition 3.0/5

Technologies & Tools

Accounting software AFEXDirect Apple Safari Bookkeeping software Database software Electronic medical record EMR software Handheld computer device software Microsoft Edge Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Windows Mozilla Firefox Point of sale POS software ReliaSoft Prism

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.53/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.37/5)
  • Social Orientation (High importance: 4.31/5)
  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.28/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.28/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

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