Other sales related occupations
include workers who sell goods or services during home demonstrations or by telephone soliciting, retail exhibitions or street vending.
On This Page
Full NOC Description
Workers in other sales related occupations sell goods or services during home demonstrations or by telephone soliciting, retail exhibitions or street vending. They are employed by a wide range of retail and wholesale establishments, manufacturers, telemarketing companies and call centres, or they may be self-employed.
Main Duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Demonstrators and direct distributors
- Contact potential customers by phone or through personal contacts
- Arrange sales demonstration appointments, and show, describe and sell goods or services at wholesale, retail and industrial establishments, at exhibitions, trade shows or directly to individual customers or at sales parties in private homes
- Deliver purchased goods to customers.
Door-to-door salespersons and street vendors
- Solicit sales and sell merchandise to residents of private homes
- Set up and display merchandise on sidewalks or at public events to sell to the public.
Telephone solicitors and telemarketers
- Contact businesses or private individuals, by telephone, to solicit sales for goods or services.
Also Known As
- canvasser - retail
- demonstrator - retail
- direct distributor - retail
- door-to-door salesperson
- home demonstrator - retail
Employment Requirements
- Some secondary school education is usually required. A high school diploma may be required by some employers.
- Self-employed street vendors and door-to-door salespersons may require a municipal merchant's permit.
Provincial Regulation
Not Provincially Regulated
The following graph shows the percentage of men and women working in this occupation in New Brunswick.
Data legend
The following graph shows the breakdown of all persons working in this occupation in New Brunswick by age group.
Data legend
The following graph shows the breakdown of all persons working in this occupation in New Brunswick by highest level of education achieved.
Data legend
The following graph shows the industry groups in which the largest shares of persons working in this occupation in New Brunswick are employed. Small percentages for all top three industry groups may suggest employment for this occupation is widely distributed amongst many industry groups.
Data legend
The following graph shows the breakdown of all persons employed in this occupation in New Brunswick by which economic region they reside in.
Data legend
Economic Regions
The following map displays New Brunswick’s five economic regions. An economic region (ER) is a grouping of counties, created as a standard unit for analysis of regional economic activity across Canada.
The following graph shows the average salary of all persons employed in this occupation in each of New Brunswick’s five economic regions.
Data legend
Economic Regions
The following map displays New Brunswick’s five economic regions. An economic region (ER) is a grouping of counties, created as a standard unit for analysis of regional economic activity across Canada.
The following represents the median hourly wage of all persons employed in this occupation in each of New Brunswick’s five economic regions.
The following shows the average salary of everyone who worked full-time and year-round in this occupation across each of the Atlantic Provinces and nationally.
The following represents the number of job openings that are expected to occur in this occupation over the next three and ten years respectively, broken down by openings expected to result from growth (“new jobs”) and openings expected to result from attrition (death and retirements).
Share this page
No endorsement of any products or services is expressed or implied.