Parts Salespersons

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Parts Consultant, Parts Counterperson, Parts Salesman, Parts Salesperson

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What they do:
Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.
On the job, you would:
  • Receive payment or obtain credit authorization.
  • Assist customers, such as responding to customer complaints and updating them about back-ordered parts.
  • Fill customer orders from stock, and place orders when requested items are out of stock.

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • sales and marketing

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics
  • mechanical

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • manufacture and distribution of products

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Social

  • talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
  • looking for ways to help people

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • order or arrange things
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Social Orientation
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Integrity
  • Perseverance

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Spreadsheet software

  • Microsoft Excel Hot Technology In Demand

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Inventory management software

  • Inventory control system software In Demand
  • Inventory tracking software

Education

Education: (rated 1 of 4)
high school diploma/GED or
some college
usually needed

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