If you're a confident communicator and enjoy the challenge of working toward targets, a career in sales may be perfect for you. You will need to have:

• the ability and desire to sell.


• excellent communication skills.


• a positive, confident and determined approach.


• resilience and the ability to cope with rejection.


• a high degree of self-motivation and ambition.


• the skills to work both independently and as part of a team.


• respond to incoming email and phone inquiries


• act as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets


• negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales


• Gather market and customer information


• challenge any objections with a view to getting the customer to buy.