Job description Telephone Sales Agent in the Interlake Region

Find out what work is like for a telephone sales agent in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Other sales related occupations (NOC 65109).

Other sales related occupations

Description

Workers in other sales related occupations sell goods or services during home demonstrations or by telephone soliciting, retail exhibitions or street vending. They are employed by a wide range of retail and wholesale establishments, manufacturers, telemarketing companies and call centres, or they may be self-employed.

Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Other sales related occupations have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

  • Demonstrators and direct distributors
  • Contact potential customers by phone or through personal contacts
  • Arrange sales demonstration appointments, and show, describe and sell goods or services at wholesale, retail and industrial establishments, at exhibitions, trade shows or directly to individual customers or at sales parties and private homes
  • Deliver purchased goods to customers.
  • Door-to-door salespersons and street vendors
  • Solicit sales and sell merchandise to residents of private homes
  • Set up and display merchandise on sidewalks or at public events to sell to the public.
  • Telephone solicitors and telemarketers
  • Contact businesses or private individuals, by telephone, to solicit sales for goods or services.

Physical demands

Physical demands are the physical activities that the job requires the worker to do. Physical demands are selected according to the likeliness that workers will have to perform them for at least half of the time they spend at work.

Work environment

The work environment refers to the physical setting in which people work. The characteristics and conditions of the work environment are selected according to the likeliness that workers will be exposed to them at least once a week.

Physical proximity from others

Physical proximity from others refers to the physical distance between individuals in the workplace. The likeliness that the job requires to perform tasks while being physically close to other people is rated on a scale with 3 levels: "Somewhat close", "Close" and "Very close".

Related job titles

Here are some other related job titles that are found in the same occupational category (NOC 65109), and a list of similar occupations:

  • canvasser - retail
  • demonstrator - retail
  • direct distributor - retail
  • door-to-door salesperson
  • home demonstrator - retail
  • street vendor
  • telemarketer
  • telephone solicitor

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Similar occupations

This section lists other occupations that are part of the same broad occupational category as Other sales related occupations in the National Occupational Classification (NOC). These occupations involve similar core qualifications but involve different responsibilities. To see more similar occupations, use the Job Transition Tool.

Sources Occupational and Skills Information System & National Occupational Classification

Labour Market Information Survey
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