Writing a sales associate resume

Everything below is counted from 6,875 live sales associatepostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 6,875
Employers: 183
Remote: 0%
Typical pay: $29k–43k
Verified live (7d): 6,658

What they ask for

Counted across 385 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel83%
Enterprise Resource Planning9%
Customer Relationship Management6%
Microsoft Word4%
Microsoft Outlook3%
HIPAA1%
Microsoft PowerPoint1%
LinkedIn1%
The General Store1%
FaceTime1%
Figma0%
Oracle HRIS0%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Five Below Inc778
Kate Spade New York697
JCrew Stores / Ashe DC Grace Holmes, Inc.483
National Vision457
The William Carter Company395
Alo Yoga286
Sterling Jewelers Inc.229
The Tile Shop145
World Market, LLC129
Michael Kors Stores California Inc107
Primark87
Deckers France SAS73

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