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Where a wholesale merchant in machine tools can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wholesale merchant in machine tools already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Wholesale merchants in machine tools investigate potential wholesale buyers and suppliers and match their needs. They conclude trades involving large quantities of goods.

Also known as wholesale trader in machine tools, B2B sales consultant in machine tools, assistant wholesale merchant in machine tools, senior wholesale merchant in machine tools, wholesale buyer in machine tools, business to business seller in machine tools, graduate wholesale merchant in machine tools, trainee wholesale merchant in machine tools, business to business sales consultant in machine tools, wholesaler in machine tools, wholesale merchandiser in machine tools.

Technicians and associate professionals 20 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: wholesale merchant in household goods, 86%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
The 5 nearest destinations from wholesale merchant in machine tools, 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 wholesale merchant in machine tools already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A wholesale merchant in machine tools needs 20 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
  • capital goods industry business, administration and law
  • machine tools 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
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Wholesale merchant in machine tools is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 wholesale merchant in machine tools’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.