- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who contacts representatives of government, business, and industrial organizations to solicit business for data processing establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Calls on prospective clients to explain types of services provided by establishment, such as inventory control, payroll processing, data conversion, sales analysis, and financial reporting.
* Analyzes data processing requirements of prospective client and draws up prospectus of data processing plan designed specifically to serve client's needs.
* Consults systems analyst and computer systems hardware analyst employed by data processing establishment to secure information concerning methodology for solving unusual problems.
* Quotes prices for services outlined in prospectus.
* Revises or expands prospectus to meet client's needs.
* Writes order and schedules initiation of services.
* Periodically confers with clients and establishment personnel to verify satisfaction with service or to resolve complaints.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells programs of industrial relations, public relations, psychological counseling, and psychological, intelligence, and aptitude testing to schools and business organizations, working for industrial psychological firm or for book publisher. Respnsibilities include:
* Interviews management officials of business to explain advantages of utilizing services offered.
* Analyzes program needs of organization and recommends appropriate psychological or testing program.
* Answers questions about services.
* Takes orders for services.
* Aids in integrating program into firm's method of operation.
* May give instructions to organization personnel in administration, scoring, and interpretation of tests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells business service, such as food-vending, trading stamps, detective, armored truck, telephone-answering, linen supply, and cleaning service. Respnsibilities include:
* Develops list of prospective customers by studying business and telephone directories, consulting business associates, and observing business establishment while driving through sales territory.
* Reviews orders for ideas to expand services available to present customers.
* Calls on prospects to explain features of services, cost, and advantages.
* Writes orders and schedules initiation of services.
* Confers with customers and company officials to resolve complaints.
* May collect payments on accounts.
* May be designated according to service sold as Sales Agent, Food-Vending Service; Sales Agent, Protective Service; Sales Agent, Trading Stamps.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells pest-control service to home owners and commercial concerns. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects prospects in assigned territory from account file, list of firms with possible need, and from potential customers who have requested service.
* Calls on prospect to explain service.
* Inspects premises to ascertain presence of vermin.
* Prepares contract for customers including such information as name of pest, area of infestation, and remedy required, based on knowledge of pest, structural damage, kinds of insecticides, and conditions conducive to pest development.
* Quotes price, obtains consent of customer, and schedules exterminator to initiate treatment.
* May treat infested areas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells pest-control service to home owners and commercial concerns. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects prospects in assigned territory from account file, list of firms with possible need, and from potential customers who have requested service.
* Calls on prospect to explain service.
* Inspects premises to ascertain presence of vermin.
* Prepares contract for customers including such information as name of pest, area of infestation, and remedy required, based on knowledge of pest, structural damage, kinds of insecticides, and conditions conducive to pest development.
* Quotes price, obtains consent of customer, and schedules exterminator to initiate treatment.
* May treat infested areas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits purchase of franchise operation by contacting persons who meet organization's standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Visits prospects to explain advantages of franchised business, services to be rendered, costs, location, and financial arrangements.
* Performs other duties as described under sales representative Master Title.
* May assist franchise purchaser in early stages of operating business.
* May confer with purchaser and company officials to resolve complaints.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells weed-eradication service to firms desiring right-of-way maintenance, performing duties as described under sales representative Master Title.
* Confers with prospective customer to determine amount of ground surface to be treated, unusual vegetation problems, terrain, and other factors influencing price of service.
* Consults with technical staff, when needed, to arrive at proposal and price quotation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans itineraries, and arranges accommodations and other travel services for customers of travel agency. Respnsibilities include:
* Converses with customer to determine destination, mode of transportation, travel dates, financial considerations, and accommodations required.
* Provides customer with brochures and publications containing travel information, such as local customs, points of interest, and special events occurring in various locations, or foreign country regulations, such as consular requirements and currency limitations.
* Computes cost of travel and accommodations, using calculator, computer, carrier tariff books, and hotel rate books, or quotes package tours' costs.
* Books transportation and hotel reservations, using computer terminal or telephone.
* Prints or requests transportation carrier tickets, using computer printer system or system link to travel carrier.
* Collects payment for transportation and accommodations from customer.
* Plans, describes, arranges, and sells itinerary tour packages and promotional travel incentives offered by various travel carriers, utilizing knowledge of available travel services and promotional techniques.
* May specialize in foreign or domestic travel, individual or group travel, specific geographic area, airplane charters, or package tours.
* May be located in transportation terminal and specialize in group and individual escorted tours and be designated Tour Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans itineraries, and arranges accommodations and other travel services for customers of travel agency. Respnsibilities include:
* Converses with customer to determine destination, mode of transportation, travel dates, financial considerations, and accommodations required.
* Provides customer with brochures and publications containing travel information, such as local customs, points of interest, and special events occurring in various locations, or foreign country regulations, such as consular requirements and currency limitations.
* Computes cost of travel and accommodations, using calculator, computer, carrier tariff books, and hotel rate books, or quotes package tours' costs.
* Books transportation and hotel reservations, using computer terminal or telephone.
* Prints or requests transportation carrier tickets, using computer printer system or system link to travel carrier.
* Collects payment for transportation and accommodations from customer.
* Plans, describes, arranges, and sells itinerary tour packages and promotional travel incentives offered by various travel carriers, utilizing knowledge of available travel services and promotional techniques.
* May specialize in foreign or domestic travel, individual or group travel, specific geographic area, airplane charters, or package tours.
* May be located in transportation terminal and specialize in group and individual escorted tours and be designated Tour Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits freight business from industrial and commercial firms and passenger-travel business from travel agencies, schools, clubs, and other organizations. Respnsibilities include:
* Calls on prospective shippers to explain advantages of using company facilities.
* Quotes tariffs, rates, and train schedules.
* Explains available routes, load limits, and special equipment available, and offers suggestions in method of loading, crating, and handling freight.
* Calls on travel agents, schools, clubs, and other organizations to explain available accommodations offered by company.
* Quotes fares, schedules, and available itineraries offered to groups by company.
* Speaks to members of groups and organizations and exhibits travel movies showing points of interest along routes to stimulate interest in travel.
* Distributes descriptive pamphlets.
* Acts as liaison between shipper and carrier to obtain information for settling complaints.
* May specialize in soliciting freight or passenger contracts or may travel from community to community to solicit freight and passenger patronage and be designated Freight-Traffic Agent; Passenger Traffic Agent; Traveling-Freight-And-Passenger Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
