Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as group sales assistant, sales clerical assistant, sales accounts clerk, sales officer, salesclerk, accounts assistant, sales associate, registered sales assistant, sales operations assistant.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
fundraising assistant 34% covered accounting assistant 16% covered legal administrative assistant 16% covered sales support assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from sales support 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 support assistant already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A sales support assistant needs 7 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • handle mail management skills
  • perform business research information skills
  • bookkeeping regulations business, administration and law
  • perform office routine activities management skills
  • perform clerical duties management skills
  • produce sales reports information skills
  • sales activities business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Sales support assistant is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 a sales support 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.