Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Specialized Sales, Merchandising, & Marketing Operations field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Specialized Sales, Merchandising, & Marketing Operations majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Specialized Sales, Merchandising, & Marketing Operations majors need more than the average amount of Negotiation, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking, Active Listening, Service Orientation, Critical Thinking, Coordination, Monitoring, Reading Comprehension, Time Management, Active Learning, Management of Financial Resources, Instructing, Judgment and Decision Making, Writing, Mathematics, Complex Problem Solving, Management of Material Resources, Systems Evaluation, Systems Analysis, Learning Strategies, Programming, Management of Personnel Resources, Technology Design, Operations Analysis, Operation and Control, Operation Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Troubleshooting, 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 Specialized Sales, Merchandising, & Marketing 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 Negotiation is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Speaking, Persuasion, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Negotiation, Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Coordination, Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Time Management, Instructing, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Systems Analysis, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Operations Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Technology Design, Programming, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Troubleshooting, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
