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Sales Managers
Helps customers find the right products, and builds relationships that last.
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Sales representatives learn their products inside out, find and meet with customers, solve their problems and close deals. Many travel and are paid partly on commission. Technical and industrial sales is common in manufacturing regions like Berks and the Lehigh Valley.
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High school courses that build toward it
- Entrepreneurship · Career and Technical
Builds sales and marketing, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds teaching and training, which this job uses.
- Pre-Algebra · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Sales Managers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.