Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an electricity sales representative can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an electricity sales representative already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Electricity sales representatives assess clients' energy needs, and recommend the purchase of electricity supply from their corporation. They promote their corporation's services, and negotiate terms of sale with clients.

Also known as electricity sales consultant, electricity salesman, electric power seller, residential electricity sales representative, electricity saleswoman, electricity seller, electricity sales rep, electric power sales negotiator, electric power sales promoter, electricity salesperson, electricity sales negotiator, electricity sales promoter.

Technicians and associate professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: domestic energy assessor, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
domestic energy assessor 77% covered renewable energy sales repres… 75% covered solar energy sales consultant 61% covered energy consultant 44% covered renewable energy consultant 43% covered electricity sales represe… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from electricity sales representative, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an electricity sales representative already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An electricity sales representative needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • inform customers on energy consumption fees communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assess customers assisting and caring
  • monitor after sales records information skills
  • electricity market business, administration and law
  • identify energy needs information skills
  • carry out sales analysis information skills
  • answer requests for quotation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • sales argumentation business, administration and law
  • characteristics of services business, administration and law
  • characteristics of products engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an electricity sales representative does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Electricity sales representative is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an electricity sales representative’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.