Sales Engineers
Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.
Also called: Account Executive, Account Manager, Customer Engagement Manager, Technical Sales Engineer
Knowledge:
- sales and marketing
- customer service
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- product and service development
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- talking to others
- talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
- understanding people's reactions
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Persistence
- Attention to Detail
Technology:
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Data base user interface and query software
- IBM DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server
Operating system software
