Real Estate Sales Agents: where your skills can take you
Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.
Most common qualification in Australia: a certificate or diploma (40% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Real Estate Sales Agents: A$78,200 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · Real-estate registration or licence (state) — mandatory
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Three moves that use what a real estate sales agent already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Real Estate Brokers
🧰 Your current job already uses negotiating, reading people, bringing people around to an idea and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (40%).
🪪 Real-estate registration or licence (state) — mandatory
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.
Fundraisers
🧰 Your current job already uses negotiating, bringing people around to an idea, working in step with other people and reading people.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (95%).
🔎 Find degrees on Course Seeker ↗ (type the job's name there)
Organize activities to raise funds or otherwise solicit and gather monetary donations or other gifts for an organization. May design and produce promotional materials. May also raise awareness of the organization's work, goals, and financial needs.
Advertising Sales Agents
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, negotiating, bringing people around to an idea and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (52%).
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Sell or solicit advertising space, time, or media in publications, signage, TV, radio, or Internet establishments or public spaces.
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