Technology: Engineering & Design

Unit 1: Technology Today & Tomorrow

Career Exploration

Career Pathway: Salesperson

It is hard to think of a field in which technology does not play a part. One possible career choice may be in sales, which is part of the Marketing, Sales, and Service career cluster. Each pathway contains a group of careers that require similar academic and technical skills. This cluster has seven career pathways:

1. Management and Entrepreneurship
2. Professional Sales and Marketing
3. Buying and Merchandising
4. Marketing Communications and Promotion
5. Marketing Information Management and Research
6. Distribution and Logistics
7. E-Marketing

Click to find out more about career clusters:
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/careers/cclusters/student/clusters/retail.shtml

Click to go to the Occupational Outlook Handbook:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/