Where a technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• technical sales representative 75% covered · difficulty 35.5
• advertising sales agent 63% covered · difficulty 45.1
• after-sales service technician 56% covered · difficulty 45.7

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

• commercial sales representative 49% covered · difficulty 63.8
• ICT account manager 36% covered · difficulty 64.9

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment needs 29 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• demonstrate motivation for sales management skills
• hardware, plumbing and heating equipment products engineering, manufacturing and construction
• keep records on sales information skills
• implement customer follow-up communication, collaboration and creativity
• contact customers communication, collaboration and creativity
• keep records of customer interaction information skills
• record customers' personal data information skills
• supervise sales activities management skills
• respond to customers' inquiries communication, collaboration and creativity
• sales promotion techniques business, administration and law

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

• advertising sales agent 69% covered · difficulty 37.7
• after-sales service technician 48% covered · difficulty 57.7
• customer service representative 35% covered · difficulty 70
• ICT account manager 35% covered · difficulty 69
• sales account manager 31% covered · difficulty 71.7
• ICT help desk agent 28% covered · difficulty 75
• commercial art gallery manager 17% covered · difficulty 82.7

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Technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment’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.