Service Agents - Road and Sea Transport
Job description
These individuals provide customer service to road and sea passengers. They advise them of fares and rates, make reservations, and issue tickets. They check baggage and process cargo.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Ticketing Agents
- Respond to customer requests and establish travel costs.
- Help people plan their schedules and itineraries.
- Book seats for customers, companies, and travel agencies.
- Issue tickets, collect payments, and check baggage.
- Receive and record package tour reservations from travel agencies.
- Provide information on available seats.
Cargo Customer Service Representatives
- Establish the price and rate of freight (cargo).
- Assess shipment cost, including service and insurance charges.
- Prepare and keep shipping labels.
- Check in passenger baggage and sort it for loading by baggage handlers.
- Load baggage onto buses, railcars, or cruise ships as required.
- Find lost or misplaced cargo or baggage.
Advancement and mobility
- Tasks for individuals in this group may be performed by more than one person, depending on the size or location of operations.
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2021-2025
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Job prospects for 2021-2025
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2020
All of Québec
1,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 56.7% Female
- 43.3% Male
Not available.
- 56.7% Female
- 43.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage
All of Québec
Not available.
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 48, 4977% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5612% of jobs
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NAICS 715% of jobs
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NAICS 532% of jobs
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NAICS 912% of jobs
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Others2% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 48, 4977% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5612% of jobs
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NAICS 715% of jobs
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NAICS 532% of jobs
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NAICS 912% of jobs
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Others2% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- A high school diploma is usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Service oriented
- Information processing
- Social perception
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Persuasion
- Coordination
- Written expression
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active learning
- Result evaluation
- Solving complex problems
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Speech recognition
- Written comprehension
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Inductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Respect standards and regulations
- Patience
- Timeliness
- Knowledge of geography
Interests
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in transportation and maintenance
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 6524 (64313)
Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks
Job titles
- Ticket agent - bus line
- Freight agent - railway
- Ship cargo agent
- Ticket clerk (except airline)
- Ticket and customer service clerk (except airline)
- Baggage agent - railway
- Baggage agent (except airline)
- Transit station ticket agent
- Ticket agent - cruise line
- Counter clerk (except airline)
- Freight agent (except airline)
- Railway express agent
- Reservations agent - cruise line
- Reservations agent - railway
- Reservations agent (except airline)
- Railway passenger agent
- Passenger agent (except airline)
- Transportation agent (except airline)
- Check-in agent (except airline)
- Customer service agent - bus line
- Counter service agent - railway
- Counter service agent (except airline)
- Sales agent - railway
- Counter sales agent - railway
- Counter sales agent (except airline)
- Customer sales and service agent (except airline)
- Station agent - railway
- Stowage clerk
- Baggage clerk (except airline)
- Ticket clerk - railway
- Ticket and information clerk (except airline)
- Reservations clerk - cruise line
- Reservations clerk - wholesale travel
- Railway reservations clerk
- Bookings clerk (except airline)
- Customer service representative - bus line
- Reservations clerk (except airline)
- Cargo customer service representative - bus line
- Cargo customer service representative - railway
- Cargo customer service representative - marine shipping
- Luggage checker (except airline)
Skill type
Sales and service
Last update: November 15, 2022
