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Market Research Interviewers

Market research interviewers conduct interviews to collect information on the opinions and preferences of consumers, businesses, the electorate and other selected groups.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 3,195
£ 8,878
£ 14,193

New workers start around £3,195. Normal pay is £8,878 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £14,193.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 16,985 vacancies for this type of job

1.63%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Collates and reviews information collected and compiles reports to pass back to the organisation/individual commissioning the market research.

  • Collects questionnaires, diaries, and other research materials left with interviewees and conducts follow-up interviews.

  • Records progress of interviews by noting answers, completing questionnaires, making audio or visual recordings or inputting responses into a computer.

  • Approaches members of the public, individuals, households and organisations to arrange and conduct face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, focus groups, panel interviews etc..

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Market Research

  • Marketing

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Outbound Calls

  • Selling Techniques

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  • Numeracy

  • Call Center Experience

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Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Sales

  • Communications

  • Customer Service

  • Rapport Building

  • English Language

  • Research

  • Computer Literacy

  • Information Gathering

  • Negotiation

  • Professionalism

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