What You'll Do

  • Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
  • Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
  • Assign employees to specific duties.
  • Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
  • Inventory stock and reorder when inventory drops to a specified level.
  • Keep records of purchases, sales, and requisitions.
  • Enforce safety, health, and security rules.
  • Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to assess the condition of each product or item.
  • Hire, train, and evaluate personnel in sales or marketing establishments, promoting or firing workers when appropriate.
  • Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 3.88/5
Speaking 3.75/5
Service Orientation 3.75/5
Critical Thinking 3.5/5
Monitoring 3.5/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.5/5
Coordination 3.5/5
Persuasion 3.25/5
Negotiation 3.25/5
Instructing 3.25/5
Management of Personnel Resources 3.25/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.12/5

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

  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.

Common styles

Dependability, Leadership Orientation, Social Orientation, Cooperation, Achievement Orientation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.88/5
Oral Expression 3.88/5
Speech Clarity 3.88/5
Speech Recognition 3.75/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.25/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.12/5
Information Ordering 3.12/5
Near Vision 3.12/5

Technologies & Tools

Adobe Acrobat Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop American Precision Instruments Regit Apple Final Cut Pro Apple Safari ASI Point of Sale Attitude POS itive AccuPOS Retail Autodesk Revit Bibase 4POS Retail CAP Automation SellWise Comcash ERP CompuTant CounterPoint CyberMatrix POS Data entry software Datasym SYMFINITE Delphi Technology Exact business software EZ Software Solutions

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.75/5)
  • Leadership Orientation (High importance: 4.62/5)
  • Social Orientation (High importance: 4.53/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.48/5)
  • Achievement Orientation (High importance: 4.34/5)

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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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Career Fit FAQs

Is this career a good fit for me

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

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What should I compare first

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