Sales Representatives, Wholesale & Manufacturing, Technical & Scientific Products
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers where technical or scientific knowledge is required in such areas as biology, engineering, chemistry, and electronics, normally obtained from at least 2 years of post-secondary education.
Also called: Account Manager, Inside Sales Representative, Sales Manager, Sales Representative
Knowledge:
- customer service
- sales and marketing
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
- bringing people together to solve differences
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- use rules to solve problems
- come up with lots of ideas
- 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
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Cooperation
- Dependability
- Persistence
- Stress Tolerance
Technology:
Customer relationship management CRM software
- NetSuite NetCRM
- Salesforce software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Access