What Skills are Needed for Sales Jobs?
The ability to be persuasive is an essential skill for all sales jobs. If you can’t convince people they need to purchase your product or service, you really don’t belong in sales. Of course, this doesn’t mean you have to persuade every potential customer to buy — that is impossible. But, you do have to make enough potential customers become buyers to meet a sales quota or projected number of sales to make a company profit. In communicating how the product or service you’re selling will meet the buyer’s needs and desires, product knowledge plus an ability to relate to people is crucial.
