Operations and sales
Sales Representative of Services in New York
18 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 14 employers · largest 17% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 18 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution11%2 of 18 postingsAccredited institution →
- CPAAICPA / State Boards of Accountancy6%
What it costs
Exam and application fees plus typical self-study hours. Almost nobody needs every credential on this list — start with the top line.
Not in the total: Bachelor's Degree — cost varies by institution.
What the official taxonomy says
O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.
Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
O*NET 41-3091.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100
This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.
What it pays
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.
Every credential above costs $1,500 — about 4 days' pay at the median.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
Ramp · Spring Health · Anthropic · Betterment · Carta · Cognition · Cursor · Figure AI · incident.io · Notion · Scale AI · Tomo · Vercel · Via
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