Other Related Sales Staff
Job description
These individuals sell products or services at home, over the phone, at exhibitions, or on the street. They are self-employed or work for:
- Businesses
- Manufacturers
- Telemarketing companies
- Call centres
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
Main tasks
- Contact potential customers by phone or in person to sell them goods or services.
- Organize and conduct demonstrations at home or in companies.
- Deliver goods to customers.
- Prepare and display goods for sale in the street, at public events (fairs, shows, etc.).
- Show, describe, and sell products or services.
- Conduct market research.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience or additional training lead to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $16.10
- Median
- $19.00
- Maximum
- $41.03
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
9,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 42.3% Female
- 57.7% Male
Not available.
- 42.3% Female
- 57.7% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$52,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 44, 4529% of jobs
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NAICS 4120% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5610% of jobs
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NAICS 236% of jobs
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NAICS 5418, 54194% of jobs
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Others31% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 44, 4529% of jobs
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NAICS 4120% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5610% of jobs
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NAICS 236% of jobs
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NAICS 5418, 54194% of jobs
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Others31% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- Some high school education usually required.
- Experience or training related to the duties of the position or industry is often required.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence is often required.
- A municipal licence may be required to sell goods and services on the street.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Persuasion
- Social perception
- Information processing
- Negotiation
- Critical thought
- Reading comprehension
- Service oriented
- Active learning
- Coordination
- Judgment and decision-making
- Result evaluation
Abilities
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Speech recognition
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Awareness of issues
- Deductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Information organization
- Originality
- Inductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Commitment
- Vitality
- Friendliness
- Assiduity and punctuality
Interests
- Work in sales or client service
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 65109
Other sales related occupations
Job titles
- Telephone sales agent
- Telemarketer
- Vendor
- Home salesperson
- Demonstrator - retail
- Comparison shopper
- Subscription agent - retail
- Canvassing agent
- Magazine distribution agent - retail
- Catalogue agent - retail
- Personal shopper
- Beauty products consultant - door-to-door sales
- Canvasser - retail
- Home demonstrator - retail
- Food demonstrator - retail
- Cosmetics demonstrator - retail
- Promotions demonstrator
- Direct distributor - retail
- Street vendor
- Telephone solicitor
- Subscription solicitor
- Magazine subscription solicitor
- Cosmetics salesperson - home sales
- Newspaper vendor
- Newspaper vendor - street sales
- Door-to-door salesperson
- Beauty products representative - home sales
- Cleaning products salesperson - door-to-door sales
Skill type
Sales and service
Last update: January 29, 2026
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