Writing a sales associate resume

Everything below is counted from 7,826 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: 7,826
Employers: 196
Remote: 0%
Typical pay: $29k–43k
Verified live (7d): 7,203

What they ask for

Counted across 839 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Workday54%
YouTube43%
TikTok43%
Instagram43%
Microsoft Excel2%
Microsoft Outlook2%
Customer Relationship Management1%
LinkedIn0%
Scala0%

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

Kate Spade New York1,027
Five Below Inc762
JCrew Stores / Ashe DC Grace Holmes, Inc.543
National Vision456
PVH Brands Ireland Ltd440
Sterling Jewelers Inc.229
Alo Yoga199
World Market, LLC158
The Tile Shop145
Michael Kors Stores California Inc125
The William Carter Company112
Deckers France SAS84

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