Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Education
Required Level of Education
- Bachelor's Degree = 85.00%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) = 10.00%
- Some College Courses = 5.00%
Related Work Experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 30.00%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 25.00%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 20.00%
- Over 10 years = 10.00%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 5.00%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 5.00%
- None = 5.00%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 25.00%
- None = 20.00%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 15.00%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 10.00%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 10.00%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 10.00%
- Up to and including 1 month = 10.00%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 25.00%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 25.00%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 20.00%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 10.00%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 10.00%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 5.00%
- None or short demonstration = 5.00%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.



