Writing a sales associate resume

Everything below is counted from 4,306 live sales associate postings, 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: 4,306
Employers: 142
Remote: 0%
Typical pay: $28k–43k
Verified live (7d): 3,283

What they ask for

Counted across 416 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Instagram54%
TikTok54%
YouTube54%
Microsoft Excel37%
Customer Relationship Management7%
Microsoft Outlook3%
LinkedIn1%
FaceTime1%
Microsoft Word1%
Front Desk1%
Microsoft PowerPoint1%
Google Drive1%
Oracle HRIS0%
Figma0%

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

Sterling Inc1,000
Five Below Inc700
Kate Spade New York441
PVH Brands Ireland Ltd256
JCrew Stores / Ashe DC Grace Holmes, Inc.233
National Vision221
Sterling Jewelers Inc.145
The William Carter Company141
Alo Yoga122
Westlake Hardware, Inc.115
The Tile Shop111
Michael Kors Stores California Inc70

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