Where an advertising sales agent can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an advertising sales agent already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Advertising sales agents sell advertising space and media time to businesses and individuals. They make sales pitches to potential clients and follow up on after-sales.
Also known as ad sales representative, media salesman, media salesperson, ad sales agent, advertising sales rep, media saleswoman.
Technicians and associate professionals 40 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
- technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
- technical sales representative in chemical products 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
- technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
- technical sales representative in mining and construction machinery 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An advertising sales agent needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- advise on merchandise features communication, collaboration and creativity
- demonstrate motivation for sales management skills
- types of media arts and humanities
- keep records on sales information skills
- implement customer follow-up communication, collaboration and creativity
- contact customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- deliver a sales pitch communication, collaboration and creativity
- keep records of customer interaction information skills
- record customers' personal data information skills
- respond to customers' inquiries communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an advertising sales agent does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- technical sales representative 66% covered · difficulty 41.6
- technical sales representative in agricultural machinery and equipment 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in chemical products 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in electronic and telecommunications equipment 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in mining and construction machinery 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in office machinery and equipment 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
- sales account manager 29% covered · difficulty 74.2
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Advertising sales agent is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an advertising sales agent’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.