Where a door to door seller can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a door to door seller already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Door to door sellers sell goods and services door to door.
Also known as travelling salesman, door to door salesman, door to door salesperson, doorstep seller, travelling saleswoman, door-to-door seller, door to door entrepreneur, travelling salesperson, home seller, door to door saleswoman.
Service and sales workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: hawker, 45%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A door to door seller needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- work independently in sales communication, collaboration and creativity
- plan customers' sales visits management skills
- adapt to different weather conditions communication, collaboration and creativity
- prepare presentation material communication, collaboration and creativity
- negotiate price communication, collaboration and creativity
- implement customer follow-up communication, collaboration and creativity
- achieve sales targets communication, collaboration and creativity
- prospect new customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- assist customers assisting and caring
- carry out active selling communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a door to door seller does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hawker 61% covered · difficulty 42.7
- market vendor 43% covered · difficulty 58.5
- commercial sales representative 42% covered · difficulty 59.1
- network marketer 40% covered · difficulty 60.6
- promotions demonstrator 37% covered · difficulty 64
- street food vendor 31% covered · difficulty 68.4
- personal shopper 27% covered · difficulty 72
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Door to door seller is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a door to door seller’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.