Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sales assistant can go next

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

Sales assistants represent the direct contact with clients. They provide general advice to customers.

Also known as department store sales assistant, hypermarket sales assistant, senior sales assistant, supermarket sales assistant, filling station sales assistant, counter assistant, seller, outlet centre sales assistant, saleswoman, trainee sales assistant, garden centre sales assistant.

Service and sales workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: press and stationery specialised seller, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
press and stationery speciali… 75% covered second-hand goods specialised… 73% covered medical goods specialised sel… 71% covered music and video shop speciali… 70% covered delicatessen specialised sell… 70% covered sales assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from sales assistant, 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 a sales assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A sales assistant needs 27 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
  • Order products management skills
  • follow up orders for customers assisting and caring
  • ensure stock storage safety assisting and caring
  • prepare sales checks information skills
  • plan aftersales arrangements management skills
  • carry out order intake communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide customer guidance on product selection communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prevent shoplifting assisting and caring
  • process refunds management skills
  • stock shelves handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Sales assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a sales assistant’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.