Where a wholesale merchant in dairy products and edible oils can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• wholesale merchant in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft 77% covered · difficulty 27.9
• wholesale merchant in household goods 86% covered · difficulty 16.6
• wholesale merchant in mining, construction and civil engineering machinery 86% covered · difficulty 17.4
• wholesale merchant in electrical household appliances 86% covered · difficulty 16.6

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

• wholesale merchant 48% covered · difficulty 63.5

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A wholesale merchant in dairy products and edible oils needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• dairy and edible oil products engineering, manufacturing and construction
• initiate contact with sellers communication, collaboration and creativity
• initiate contact with buyers communication, collaboration and creativity
• negotiate sale of commodities communication, collaboration and creativity
• identify new business opportunities management skills
• assess supplier risks information skills
• identify suppliers management skills
• monitor international market performance information skills
• comprehend financial business terminology information skills
• sales strategies business, administration and law

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Wholesale merchant in dairy products and edible oils is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 wholesale merchant in dairy products and edible oils’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.