Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News & Street Vendors, & Related Workers

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Job Outlook:
None
Education: No formal educational credential
Salary
High: $51,860.00
Average: $36,280.00
Hourly
Average: $17.44

What they do:

Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

On the job, you would:

  • Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.
  • Develop prospect lists.
  • Deliver merchandise and collect payment.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

85% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
83% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
80% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
79% Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
79% Independence  -  Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
74% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
73% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
71% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
70% Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
69% Concern for Others  -  Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

100% Enterprising  -  Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
61% Conventional  -  Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Values of the Work Environment

67% Relationships  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

75% Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
72% Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Arrange delivery of goods or services.
Process sales or other transactions.
Take product orders from customers.
Explain technical product or service information to customers.
Demonstrate products to consumers.
Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services.
Coordinate sales campaigns.
Answer customer questions about goods or services.
Sell products or services.
Arrange delivery of goods or services.
Identify potential customers.
Distribute promotional literature or samples to customers.
Purchase stocks of merchandise or supplies.
Set up merchandise displays.
Stock products or parts.
Sell products or services.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

95% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
94% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
93% Deal With External Customers  -  How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job?
89% Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
87% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
87% Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job?
78% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
68% Public Speaking  -  How often do you have to perform public speaking in this job?
67% Physical Proximity  -  To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people?
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Tasks & Values

90% Selling or Influencing Others  -  Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
87% Performing for or Working Directly with the Public  -  Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
82% Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
71% Communicating with People Outside the Organization  -  Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
68% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
66% Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
66% Coaching and Developing Others  -  Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.

Getting Started

Education:
57%
Less than a High School Diploma
43%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

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