Also called: Survey Interviewer
Calls people to ask survey questions for polls and research.
Calls randomly chosen households from a call center, reads questions word for word, and records answers on screen.
BLS interviewers (approx).
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school; on-the-job training.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Shrinking (about -8% over 10 years). Estimate; phone surveys are declining.
High risk for 10 years. Online surveys and AI voice agents already replace most phone interviewing; very few openings remain.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to survey research call centers or remote interviewer jobs (Gallup, SSRS, university survey labs)
Classes: Speech, Computer applications, A second language.
Official data: O*NET occupation 43-4111.
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