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Telemarketers
Solicit donations or orders for goods or services over the telephone.
- Sector: Business & Finance
- Preparation: Zone 2 — some preparation needed
- O*NET code: 41-9041.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Selling or Influencing Others
central to the job — rated 96/100 for importance.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
central to the job — rated 87/100 for importance.
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Getting Information
a major part of the work — rated 84/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 80/100 for importance.
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
a major part of the work — rated 79/100 for importance.
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Processing Information
a major part of the work — rated 77/100 for importance.
Solicit donations or orders for goods or services over the telephone.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Persuasion
Needed at a solid working level (52/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Service Orientation
Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 63/100 for importance.
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (46/100), and rated 56/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Sales and Marketing
Needed at a high level (68/100), and rated 83/100 for importance.
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a high level (60/100), and rated 76/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Computers and Electronics
Needed at a solid working level (45/100), and rated 53/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speech Clarity
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Speech Recognition
Needed at a solid working level (50/100), and rated 66/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 2 — some preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
A high-school diploma is the usual starting point.
Experience
Some prior work experience helps but is rarely required.
Training
Expect a few months to a year of on-the-job training.
What it pays
These are typical business compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Telemarketers specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Fortune 100 Corp Track
$130k – $300k
Mid-size Companies
$80k – $135k
SMBs & Local Biz
$55k – $90k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Telemarketers. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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See your fit for Telemarketers
Ten questions, about 90 seconds. You get your match against Telemarketers and 782+ other real careers — with the reasoning shown.
Take the quiz Open in FlightWayOccupational data on this page comes from the O*NET 30.3 Database, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET is a registered trademark of USDOL/ETA. FlightWay is not endorsed by, and USDOL/ETA is not responsible for, anything built on that data — see our terms. What is ours is the comparison, the score and the plan.