Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Selling Skills & Sales Operations field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Selling Skills & Sales Operations majors need many skills, but most especially Monitoring. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Selling Skills & Sales Operations majors need more than the average amount of Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Persuasion, Coordination, Time Management, Social Perceptiveness, Monitoring, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Systems Evaluation, Judgment and Decision Making, Speaking, Active Listening, Writing, Service Orientation, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Mathematics, Systems Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Quality Control Analysis, Operations Analysis, Programming, Operation and Control, Technology Design, Operation Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Selling Skills & Sales Operations majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Material Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Monitoring, Active Listening, Speaking, Management of Personnel Resources, Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Time Management, Judgment and Decision Making, Reading Comprehension, Persuasion, Writing, Critical Thinking, Negotiation, Complex Problem Solving, Instructing, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Systems Evaluation, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Mathematics, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operations Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Programming, Technology Design, Troubleshooting, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.