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First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of sales workers other than retail sales workers. May perform duties such as budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Provide staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Keep records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Hire, train, and evaluate personnel.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Plan and prepare work schedules, and assign employees to specific duties.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Attend company meetings to exchange product information and coordinate work activities with other departments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss23%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
54%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 58% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 33% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.