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Where a sales support assistant can go next

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

Sales support assistants perform a variety of general sales support tasks, such as supporting the development of sales plans, managing clerical activities of sales efforts, verifying client invoices and other accounting documents or records, compiling data, and preparing reports for other company departments.

Clerical support workers 23 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: fundraising assistant, 34%

Fig. 2 — the 3 nearest destinations from sales support assistant. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a sales support assistant already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Index

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sales support assistant is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a sales support assistant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.