Comparison and Contrast Between The Work of an Office Staff and a Salesman

Many people in this world are experienced and professional by having more or different kinds of work experience. Any kind of job can play a big part or vital role in molding a person professionally and personally as well. Those jobs can also make an individual a better person after working in two different fields. He or she can learn a lot from any job. In this essay, we will talk about the comparison and contrast between the two jobs. We will only be focused on the Office Staff job and Salesman job.

A salesman is also called the salesperson, sales coordinator or sales representative. He is the one who sells and market the products or even services to buyer or consumers. Part of his job is to explain how the products will work, how it can be used properly or what services they are offering. Sometimes he is also giving brochures or any kind of advertisement. He is the one who always looks for customers that can be a prospective buyer of his product. It’s a must for a salesman to master all the technical information about his product and service that he offers. He should know how to win the yes of the customer and the goal is for his customer to buy his product.

Salesmen can work in different places, like malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, retail stores, sometimes in the insurance company, beauty salon, furniture store and so on. One of his duties and responsibilities is to meet his sales target or quotas. The salesman should also follow up all his prospective customers and pursue them to repeat their buying. Salesman responsibility is to give satisfaction to the customer, part of this is to regularly call and ask the client about their experience in using their products, it is also their technique to ensure and build more connection and relationship with their customers. In terms of skills, good verbal communication, strong interpersonal, goal-oriented and most importantly having a strong sense of marketing, these are all required in salesman job.

In comparison to the salesman job, the office staff is a person who normally does a clerical job inside the office. One of her duties is to assist her superiors in terms of providing information, documents and other requests needed. She should know the office management job. Part of her role as office staff is the filling of documents, bookkeeping, answering phone calls and emails, and word typing. She is the one who is distributing and informing all her colleagues about the announcement from her superior. Sometimes on behalf of her superior, she is the one who is spreading information and important announcements.

Sometimes, office staff can also be the secretary or personal assistant of her superior. Including in her job is to organize the meeting schedules, booking of business trips, and reminding her superior about his important task to be done on a specific day. She can also be the frontline of their office. Their customer or guest will be assisted by her first before they talk to her superior. She is also preparing the agenda of the meeting and she also needs to get the minutes of the meeting to record all that they've talked about. She also addresses all the complains and also takes orders from her superior. She has a lot of duties to do, it also includes her job to update and maintain the office database, mailing, sometimes she also does inventory either by doing it manually or she will use computers. She always prepares outgoing mails. She is also responsible for ordering office supplies and materials needed in the office.

In terms of skills, knowledge, and abilities of office staff, she should finish a four-year course, excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills, computer skills, knowledge to make mails, and many more that related to office jobs.

Both are challenging jobs but both of them give importance to their workplaces. But we can see that in terms of the workplace, a salesman job can be done in different places while in contrast, an office job can be done only in one place. About the skills required, the salesman should some skills that office staff is not required to have. An example is the marketing strategies or skills of the salesman because he needs that on his job to have more sales while the office staff doesn't need that skills because she is not entitled to meet any sales target, she is just focused on clerical works.

The salesman has a broad responsibility than the office staff, as a salesman needs to communicate to many people for him to find a prospective customer to avail of his product and services, but the office staff is only working and communicating most of the time in her superiors and few office co-workers. Another difference is this, salesmen spending most of their time to do their job by standing for a long time (eight to ten hours a day), while office staff doing her job by sitting for the whole day. Both of them are so tiring because both of them need and require effort and strength to accomplish the task.

However, these two have differences we all know that both of them can provide something to help an individual to be professional. No matter how tiring or a job requires many responsibilities and duties at least you are doing your best to do and to accomplish your task. Any jobs could always be a fulfilling experience for a person. Both of these are examples of a nobles profession. Whatever job you will experience the important thing is for you to have happiness and enjoy it.