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Parts Salespersons
Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Receive payment or obtain credit authorization.Mostly human for now
- 02Assist customers, such as responding to customer complaints and updating them about back-ordered parts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Fill customer orders from stock, and place orders when requested items are out of stock.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Receive and fill telephone orders for parts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Locate and label parts, and maintain inventory of stock.Mostly human for now
- 06Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Read catalogs, microfiche viewers, or computer displays to determine replacement part stock numbers and prices.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Determine replacement parts required, according to inspections of old parts, customer requests, or customers' descriptions of malfunctions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Examine returned parts for defects, and exchange defective parts or refund money.Mostly human for now
- 10Manage shipments by researching shipping methods or costs and tracking packages.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
34%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 78% 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 69% 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.
- Receive payment or obtain credit authorization.
- Locate and label parts, and maintain inventory of stock.
- Examine returned parts for defects, and exchange defective parts or refund money.
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.