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Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing: where your skills can take you

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.

Most common qualification in Australia: Year 12 or below (38% of workers, 2021 Census) ยท Australian median pay for Sales Representatives: A$88,000 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia)

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Three moves that use what a sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing 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.

Advertising Sales Agents

Usual study level (from US data): Bachelor degree (uni โ€” or check Cert/Diploma + experience pathways first)

๐Ÿงฐ Your current job already uses bringing people around to an idea, reading people, negotiating and looking after customers and clients.

๐ŸŽ“ 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.

Travel Agents

Usual study level (from US data): Cert IV or Diploma (TAFE; if you have experience, recognition of prior learning can shorten it)

๐Ÿงฐ Your current job already uses reading people, bringing people around to an idea, looking after customers and clients and negotiating.

๐ŸŽ“ A certificate or diploma. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (55%).

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Plan and sell transportation and accommodations for customers. Determine destination, modes of transportation, travel dates, costs, and accommodations required. May also describe, plan, and arrange itineraries and sell tour packages. May assist in resolving clients' travel problems.

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products

Usual study level (from US data): Bachelor degree (uni โ€” or check Cert/Diploma + experience pathways first)

๐Ÿงฐ Your current job already uses bringing people around to an idea, negotiating, reading people and looking after customers and clients.

๐ŸŽ“ A certificate or diploma. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (44%).

๐Ÿ”Ž Find degrees on Course Seeker โ†— (type the job's name there)

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers where technical or scientific knowledge is required in such areas as biology, engineering, chemistry, and electronics, normally obtained from at least 2 years of postsecondary education.

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What this list is. A starting point, not advice. Australian pay is shown where a job maps cleanly. Check any course or registration with the body that runs it.
Data sources and licences

O*NET 30.3 โ€” This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NETยฎ is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update โ€” Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, ยฉ Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.

Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.

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