Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a medical sales representative can go next

3 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a medical sales representative already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Medical sales representatives promote and sell medical devices, equipment and pharmaceutical products to healthcare professionals. They provide product information and demonstrate features to healthcare professionals. Medical representatives negotiate and close sales contracts.

Professionals 36 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: electricity sales representative, 18%

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Fig. 2 — the 3 nearest destinations from medical sales representative. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a medical sales representative already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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medical sales representative is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a medical sales representative already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.