Sales Representative

You would use your people skills to sell your company’s products or services to businesses, shops or individuals.

Products you could sell include medicines, consumer goods or engineering parts.

You would:

• Make appointments with new and current customers

• Assess your customers’ needs

• Make presentations on new products and special deals

• Look after sales, prices, contracts and payments

• Advise customers about delivery times and after-sales service

• Keep in contact with customers in person and by telephone

• Report your orders to the sales office

• Keep up to date with what your competitors are doing

• Go to conferences and seminars and follow industry trends

• Meet sales targets

• Write reports on sales trends

This job can come with a lot of pressure, as you may have to meet difficult targets. In some jobs you will be paid on commission, which means that for every item you sell you will make more money.