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Business & Finance
Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
Buy merchandise or commodities, other than farm products, for resale to consumers at the wholesale or retail level, including both durable and nondurable goods.
- Sector: Business & Finance
- Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
- O*NET code: 13-1022.00
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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Getting Information
a major part of the work — rated 81/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 76/100 for importance.
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Working with Computers
a major part of the work — rated 76/100 for importance.
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Processing Information
a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
a major part of the work — rated 70/100 for importance.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
a regular part of the work — rated 69/100 for importance.
Buy merchandise or commodities, other than farm products, for resale to consumers at the wholesale or retail level, including both durable and nondurable goods. Analyze past buying trends, sales records, price, and quality of merchandise to determine value and yield. Select, order, and authorize payment for merchandise according to contractual agreements. May conduct meetings with sales personnel and introduce new products. May negotiate contracts.
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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Negotiation
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Critical Thinking
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Persuasion
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Sales and Marketing
Needed at a high level (63/100), and rated 71/100 for importance.
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a high level (64/100), and rated 68/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 65/100 for importance.
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Mathematics
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 64/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Deductive Reasoning
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
Experience
One to two years of related experience is typical.
Training
Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.
What it pays
These are typical finance compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Goldman · JP Morgan · KKR
$150k – $400k+
Regional Banks & Funds
$85k – $130k
Credit Unions & Local Firms
$55k – $85k
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.
- Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”
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 Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products. 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 Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
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