Tasks & Responsibilities
  • 01
    Stacking and displaying items for sales;
  • 02
    Advising customers on the selection, price, delivery, use and care of goods and services;
  • 03
    Giving demonstrations of articles on sale in order to inform customers about their characteristics and mode of use, as well as to stimulate buying interest;
  • 04
    Taking orders and making arrangements for payment, delivery and collection of goods;
  • 05
    Offering samples of goods and distributing catalogues and advertising material;
  • 06
    Contacting dealers or individuals by telephone to solicit business;
  • 07
    Performing related tasks; and
  • 08
    Supervising other workers.

What are the skills required?

Skills, knowledege and abilities that are essential to carry out a task with determined results. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

Soft Skill
Communication
The ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff is essential, no matter what industry you work in.
Soft Skill
Problem Solving
Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
Soft Skill
Product Demonstration
In marketing, a product demonstration (or "demo" for short) is a promotion where a product is demonstrated to potential customers.
Soft Skill
Decision Making
In psychology, decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities.
Soft Skill
Listening
Expertise in focusing on the words and intention being communicated by another in a way that demostrates focus and enhances the effectiveness of the interaction.
Soft Skill
Market Research
Market research (also in some contexts known as Industrial Research) is any organized effort to gather information about target markets or customers.
Hard Skill
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
Soft Skill
Speaking
ability to communicate effectively. These skills allow the speaker, to convey his message in a passionate, thoughtful, and convincing manner
Soft Skill
Time Management
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities - especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
Hard Skill
Budgeting
Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
Soft Skill
Computer Literacy
The ability to use computers and related technology efficiently for work tasks.
Hard Skill
Consultative Sales
Consultative salesis a selling method in which the salesperson spends time with the customer to understand the problem the customer is trying to solve and then recommends a solution that will specifically address that problem.
Hard Skill
Cosmeceutical
Cosmeceuticals is the combination of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Soft Skill
Field Marketing
Field marketing is a traditional discipline in direct marketing, it involves people distributing, auditing, selling or sampling promotions on the "field".
Hard Skill
Machine Operation
Experience operating machinery safely.
Soft Skill
Marketing And Advertising
The process of selecting the best media to reach marketing and advertising strategy objectives in order to promote a client's product or service. This process encompasses
Soft Skill
Marketing Communications
Marketing communications (MC, marcom, marcomm) uses different marketing channels and tools in combination: Marketing communication channels focuses on any way a business communicates a message to its desired market, or the market in general.
Hard Skill
Materials Planning
Material Planning is the scientific method of planning and determining the requirements of consumables, raw materials, spare parts and other miscellaneous materials essential for the production plan implementation.
Hard Skill
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
Hard Skill
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program currently developed by Microsoft, for use on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems.
Hard Skill
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.
Hard Skill
Online Advertising
Online advertising, also called online marketing or Internet advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers.
Soft Skill
Planning
Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
Soft Skill
Product Marketing
Product marketing is the process of promoting and selling a product to an audience.
Hard Skill
Product Testing
Product testing, also called consumer testing or comparative testing, is a process of measuring the properties or performance of products.
Soft Skill
Promotional Marketing
In marketing, promotion is advertising a product or brand, generating sales, and creating brand loyalty.
Soft Skill
Public Relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.
Soft Skill
Public Speaking
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.
Hard Skill
Record Keeping
Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the management of information in an organization throughout its life cycle, from the time of creation or inscription to its eventual disposition.
Soft Skill
Report Writing
A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.
Soft Skill
Sales Planning
Experience setting profit-based sales targets, quotas, sales forecasting, demand management and the execution of a sales plan.
Hard Skill
Sales Reporting
Sales reportdescribes the record of all the calls which have been made and products that have been sold during a particular time frame by a salesperson or the management.
Soft Skill
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.
Soft Skill
Typing
Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator.
Soft Skill
Writing
Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.
Soft Skill
Written Communication
Working experience of Written Communication, which involves any type of message that makes use of the written word. Written communication is the most important and the most effective of any mode of business communication.
Field of Study Required
Field of study consists of a broad area of academic and skills qualifications that come under a similar branch of subject knowledge. In addition, courses offered under each field of study require similar academic entry requirements.
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