4.6 KiB
Market evidence report — debt-collector
Source: 56 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 56), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 40 | 71 % |
| n/a | 11 | 20 % |
| junior | 4 | 7 % |
| senior | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 11 | 20 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Office | 6 | 11 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Word | 4 | 7 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | debt collection | 25 | 45 % |
| 2 | negotiation | 16 | 29 % |
| 3 | account management | 15 | 27 % |
| 4 | skip tracing | 9 | 16 % |
| 5 | collections | 8 | 14 % |
| 6 | customer service | 8 | 14 % |
| 7 | account reconciliation | 7 | 12 % |
| 8 | accounts receivable | 6 | 11 % |
| 9 | accounts receivable management | 5 | 9 % |
| 10 | debt negotiation | 5 | 9 % |
| 11 | payment negotiation | 5 | 9 % |
| 12 | account analysis | 4 | 7 % |
| 13 | account resolution | 4 | 7 % |
| 14 | debt recovery | 4 | 7 % |
| 15 | billing | 3 | 5 % |
| 16 | compliance | 3 | 5 % |
| 17 | data analysis | 3 | 5 % |
| 18 | dispute resolution | 3 | 5 % |
| 19 | insurance verification | 3 | 5 % |
| 20 | payment processing | 3 | 5 % |
| 21 | prioritization | 3 | 5 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | customer communication | 9 | 16 % |
| 2 | payment arrangement negotiation | 5 | 9 % |
| 3 | debtor contact | 4 | 7 % |
| 4 | payment plan negotiation | 4 | 7 % |
| 5 | portfolio management | 4 | 7 % |
| 6 | record maintenance | 4 | 7 % |
| 7 | account documentation | 3 | 5 % |
| 8 | debt collection | 3 | 5 % |
| 9 | dispute resolution | 3 | 5 % |
| 10 | handling inbound calls | 3 | 5 % |
| 11 | payment posting | 3 | 5 % |
| 12 | performance goal attainment | 3 | 5 % |
| 13 | record keeping | 3 | 5 % |
| 14 | report preparation | 3 | 5 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 56 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
56 ads.
Top hard skills:
- debt collection — 45 % (25 ads)
- negotiation — 29 % (16 ads)
- account management — 27 % (15 ads)
- skip tracing — 16 % (9 ads)
- collections — 14 % (8 ads)
- customer service — 14 % (8 ads)
- account reconciliation — 12 % (7 ads)
- accounts receivable — 11 % (6 ads)
- accounts receivable management — 9 % (5 ads)
- debt negotiation — 9 % (5 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 20 % (11 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 11 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 7 % (4 ads)
- accounting software — 4 % (2 ads)
- financial software — 4 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 4 % (2 ads)
- SAP — 4 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 71 % · n/a 20 % · junior 7 % · senior 2 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Collections Specialist | 6 |
| Debt Collector | 4 |
| Bilingual Entry level Debt Collector | 2 |
| Debt Collections Specialist | 2 |
| Asset Recovery - Member Solutions Representative I (Collector) | 1 |
| Call Center Debt Collection Specialist | 1 |
| Call Center Recovery Agent | 1 |
| Client Billing & Collections Specialist | 1 |
| Collection Agent | 1 |
| Collection Representative | 1 |
| Collection Representative - Remote | 1 |
| Collections Agent | 1 |
| Collections and Recovery Specialist | 1 |
| Collections Representative | 1 |
| Collections Specialist (B2B) | 1 |
| Collector I | 1 |
| Commercial Debt Collector | 1 |
| Consumer Resolution Specialist - Debt Collection Call Center | 1 |
| Consumer/Commercial Debt Collector | National Service Bureau |
| Credit and Collections Specialist | 1 |
| Debt Collection Agent | 1 |
| Debt Collection Agent -Remote 21 | 1 |
| Debt Collection Agent -Remote 8 | 1 |
| Debt Collection Specialist | 1 |
| Debt Collections 8 | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.