- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who solicits freight or storage business from homeowners and business establishments and estimates packing, crating, moving, and storage costs. Respnsibilities include:
* Develops lists of prospective customers from review of publications and contacts with business and real estate firms, providing such information as personnel transfers and home-sales listings.
* Calls on prospect at home or business establishment and describes services provided by company.
* Examines goods to be moved or stored, estimates cubic feet of storage or shipping space required, using comparison chart, and computes cost of packing, crating, moving, shipping, and delivering household goods, machinery, or other material.
* Records details on itemized sales contract, such as value and description of goods, packing instructions, and charge for each service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits shipper's account for parcel-delivery firm. Respnsibilities include:
* Visits management of new businesses and those with change of ownership to promote new business and obtain contracts for service.
* Explains shipping rates and regulations regarding wrapping, size, handling, and weight of parcels.
* Completes service contract form.
* Reviews shipper's accounts to identify problems, such as overdue accounts, proposed changes in pickup and delivery schedules, failure of shipper to follow parcel wrapping and handling requirements, and frequency and type of shipper's claims.
* Calls on shipper's representatives to discuss and resolve problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts residential, commercial, and industrial telephone company subscribers to ascertain communication problems and needs and promote use of telephone services, utilizing knowledge of marketing conditions, contracts, sales methods, and communications services and equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Discusses communication services, such as telephone, teletypewriter, or ticker tape, with subscriber representative to inform representative of services available, and obtains information, such as size of physical plant, range of desired communication, and type of equipment or service desired.
* Consults with other workers regarding communication needs of subscriber to obtain information, such as availability and cost of services or equipment requested.
* Analyzes information obtained to determine practicability of subscriber request and advises subscriber representative on selection and utilization of services.
* Prepares sales contracts.
* Reviews subscriber accounts to determine and evaluate utilization of communication services.
* May specialize in sales of commercial, industrial, or residential telephone services and be designated Communications Consultant, Commercial Services; Communications Consultant, Industrial Services; Communications Consultant, Residential Services.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts residential, commercial, and industrial telephone company subscribers to ascertain communication problems and needs and promote use of telephone services, utilizing knowledge of marketing conditions, contracts, sales methods, and communications services and equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Discusses communication services, such as telephone, teletypewriter, or ticker tape, with subscriber representative to inform representative of services available, and obtains information, such as size of physical plant, range of desired communication, and type of equipment or service desired.
* Consults with other workers regarding communication needs of subscriber to obtain information, such as availability and cost of services or equipment requested.
* Analyzes information obtained to determine practicability of subscriber request and advises subscriber representative on selection and utilization of services.
* Prepares sales contracts.
* Reviews subscriber accounts to determine and evaluate utilization of communication services.
* May specialize in sales of commercial, industrial, or residential telephone services and be designated Communications Consultant, Commercial Services; Communications Consultant, Industrial Services; Communications Consultant, Residential Services.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells telephone services to business accounts. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts and visits commercial customers to review telephone service.
* Analyzes communication needs of business establishments, using knowledge of type of business, available telephone equipment, and traffic studies.
* Recommends services, such as additional telephone instruments and lines, switchboard systems, dial- and key-telephone systems, private-branch exchanges, and speaker telephones.
* Quotes rates for equipment and writes up orders.
* Explains equipment usage, using brochures and demonstration equipment.
* May specialize in selling services to a particular industry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells telephone services to business accounts. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts and visits commercial customers to review telephone service.
* Analyzes communication needs of business establishments, using knowledge of type of business, available telephone equipment, and traffic studies.
* Recommends services, such as additional telephone instruments and lines, switchboard systems, dial- and key-telephone systems, private-branch exchanges, and speaker telephones.
* Quotes rates for equipment and writes up orders.
* Explains equipment usage, using brochures and demonstration equipment.
* May specialize in selling services to a particular industry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits prospective and existing commercial and residential clients to promote increased or economical use of public utilities, such as gas, electric power, telephone, and telegraph service. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects installations in existing establishments or reviews plans for new construction to determine potential need or necessity for extension of utility service.
* Advises customers in most economical use of utility to promote energy conservation and reduce cost.
* Quotes approximate rates, installation charges, and operating costs and explains company services.
* Writes construction requisitions and service applications, conforming to needs and requests of consumer.
* May investigate customers' complaints concerning bills.
* May be designated by type of utility sold as Sales Representative, Electric Service (utilities); Sales Representative, Gas Service (utilities); Sales Representative, Telephone and Telegraph Services or by area in which utility is sold as Sales Representative, Rural Power (utilities).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits prospective and existing commercial and residential clients to promote increased or economical use of public utilities, such as gas, electric power, telephone, and telegraph service. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects installations in existing establishments or reviews plans for new construction to determine potential need or necessity for extension of utility service.
* Advises customers in most economical use of utility to promote energy conservation and reduce cost.
* Quotes approximate rates, installation charges, and operating costs and explains company services.
* Writes construction requisitions and service applications, conforming to needs and requests of consumer.
* May investigate customers' complaints concerning bills.
* May be designated by type of utility sold as Sales Representative, Electric Service (utilities); Sales Representative, Gas Service (utilities); Sales Representative, Telephone and Telegraph Services or by area in which utility is sold as Sales Representative, Rural Power (utilities).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells graphic art, such as layout, illustration, and photography, to advertising agencies and industrial organizations for use in advertising and illustration. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and sketches layouts to meet customer needs.
* Advises customer in methods of composing layouts, utilizing knowledge of photographic and illustrative art and printing terminology.
* Informs customer of types of artwork available by providing samples.
* Computes job costs.
* Delivers advertising or illustration proofs to customer for approval.
* May write copy as part of layout.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits and draws up contracts for signs and displays. Respnsibilities include:
* Calls on advertisers and sales promotion people to obtain information concerning prospects for current advertising and sales promotion.
* Discusses advantages of and suggests ideas for signs and displays.
* Submits rendering or drawing of proposed sign or display to prospect.
* Draws up contract covering arrangements for designing, fabricating, erecting, and maintaining sign or display, depending on type of job and customer's wishes.
* May confer with architect in determining type of sign.
* May select and arrange for lease of site.
Industry:Professional careers
