Sales
Career Overview
$101,420
median salary
66,700
jobs nationwide in 2018
3,700
approximate # of new jobs by 2028
Learn customer needs and match them with the right products.
Prepare and deliver sales presentations to customers.
Secure and renew product and service orders and arrange delivery and installation.
Get opportunities to work on commission.
Help customers use, understand, and troubleshoot products.
Help with product research and development.
What It Takes
In the military, setting and achieving goals is part of daily life. In a sales role, you’ll be doing the exact same thing—and when you work in the technology industry, salespeople can make very competitive salaries.
A Desire to Help
Show customers how your product will make their lives easier and boost their bottom lines.
Self-Confidence
Sales professionals must be confident and persuasive when making their pitch to a prospective customer.
Technical Accuracy
Knowing your product backwards and forwards is essential to making sales.
A Goal-Oriented Approach
Sales is always about reaching quotas and then seeing just how much you can surpass expectations.
Good Listening
Really understanding where your customer is coming from is essential to a strong sales approach.
Career Progression
Step 1
Earn bachelor’s degree in business
Step 2
Start entry-level sales role
Step 3
Manage a sales team
Key Companies
more companiesBadger Daylighting ™ is the industry leader in non-destructive hydro-excavation (hydrovac) services. Since 1992, Badger has been innovating cutting-edge technology and providing services to a diverse customer base including oil and gas, energy, industria
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Our Mission
To provide innovative equipment, services, and technological solutions resulting in sustainable business partnerships with our agricultural, turf and industrial equipment customers as well as fulfilling careers for our employee owners
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Beck’s is the largest family-owned retail seed company and the third-largest seed brand in the U.S., dedicated to serving farmers throughout the Midwest and Mid-South. But we didn’t get to where we are today without faith and hard work.
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WE ARE BUILDING A NATIONAL BRAND WITH HEART
HERE’S OUR GOAL
To become America’s #1 trusted partner for complete tire service, vehicle maintenance and repair.
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Black Equipment was founded in 1956 by MJ and Gladys Black. From the beginning, Black Equipment has been a family owned company and remains that way today with a keen sense of responsibility and gratitude for our customers and employees.
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We have pooled together the latest in best practices for donor engagement and retention to create a simple donor database solution that helps nonprofits decrease donor attrition and increase revenue.
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Our top priority at Cellular Sales is providing our customers with the best possible customer experience.
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We are a talent-sourcing company committed to aligning consultants job and career expectations with the project and resource needs of our clients.
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We are a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. We are the ‘People for Process Automation’.
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FDB is the leading provider of clinical and descriptive drug knowledge that’s integrated into healthcare information systems around the world.
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Since 1941, FORUM Credit Union has built a reputation based on serving our members and our community. That means we’ve dedicated 80 years to helping our members live their financial dreams.
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Founded in 1910, German American is a very strong financial services provider in Indiana and Kentucky, specializing in banking, insurance, investments and wealth management for business and retail customers.
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Heartland Food Products Group is a global leader in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, producing low-calorie sweeteners, coffee, coffee creamers and liquid water enhancers. Simply put, we make coffee, tea and water taste better.
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Founded in 2013 by Recon Marine veteran Travis Barnes and his wife Hilary, Hotel Tango is the nation’s first combat-disabled, veteran-owned distillery. We offer 9 craft spirits in our portfolio and operate a tasting room in Indiana.
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Kirby Risk Corporation is a multi-faceted organization dedicated to meeting your needs with innovative and effective solutions.
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Kokomo Auto World is committed to providing an exceptional work environment for our employees because they are our greatest asset. We pride ourselves on exceeding all customer expectations by providing exceptional customer service.
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MSP has manufactured precision machined products for the Aerospace and Defense Industries, and has developed a worldwide leading reputation for excellence, with virtually all corporate, commercial, general and military aircraft containing our components.
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Headquartered in Greenfield, Indiana, NineStar Connect is an innovative, community-minded, communications, energy, water, and sewer cooperative that brings Urban-grade fiber optic and utility infrastructure solutions to Indiana’s most rural communities.
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Founded in Fort Wayne, IN in 1943, OmniSource, LLC has grown to become one of North America’s largest processors, distributors, and managers of scrap and secondary metals.
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Orchard Software Corporation is a leader in the laboratory information system industry and offers a variety of laboratory system solutions and services that improve patient care.
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Paschall Logistics is a logistics and broker family with strong pillars of ethics, initiative, and teamwork. We’re 100% employee owned. Why just work for a company when you can own it?
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We are a business to business distributor of electrical, industrial, safety products and related solutions.
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Thrivent is a Fortune 500 financial services organization, providing advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs and solutions so people can make the most of all they’ve been given.
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TQL connects customers with shipping needs with carriers that have the available capacity and service offerings.
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We connect businesses to workers through our online marketplace, enabling a real-time approach to production.
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For nearly 90 years, Zimmer Biomet has been a driving force in the rapidly growing musculoskeletal healthcare industry. Today, Zimmer Biomet has operations in more than 25 countries around the world and sells products in more than 100 countries.
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