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Real estate agent — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Real Estate Brokers · Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers · Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate · Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents · Appraisers of Personal and Business Property · Counter and Rental Clerks · Personal Financial Advisors · Insurance Sales Agents
In the official classification#
Real Estate Sales Agents
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 41-9022.00 (Real Estate Sales Agents). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- NegotiationVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- CoordinationVery important
- PersuasionVery important
- Service OrientationVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
Knowledge
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- Sales and MarketingVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- AdministrativeImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationVery important
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with OthersVery important
- Performing for or Working Directly with the PublicVery important
- Working with ComputersVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Documenting/Recording InformationVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Speech RecognitionVery important
- Speech ClarityVery important
- Written ExpressionImportant
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- WritingImportant
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Contact prospective clients who want to buy or sell a home.New task · 2026-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 3 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.