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"Sales Engineer"
Job Description - Part 3 - Skills Required

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge

Skills Needed for: "Sales Engineer"

1) Persuasion -- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.


2) Speaking -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.


3) Service Orientation -- Actively looking for ways to help people.


4) Active Listening -- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.


5) Social Perceptiveness -- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.


6) Operations Analysis -- Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.


7) Negotiation -- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.


8) Reading Comprehension -- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.


9) Writing -- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.


10) Mathematics -- Using mathematics to solve problems.


11) Critical Thinking -- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.


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12) Active Learning -- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.


13) Instructing -- Teaching others how to do something.


14) Technology Design -- Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.


15) Troubleshooting -- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.


16) Systems Evaluation -- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.


17) Management of Material Resources -- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.


18) Judgment and Decision Making -- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.


19) Equipment Selection -- Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.


20) Monitoring -- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.


21) Complex Problem Solving -- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.


22) Systems Analysis -- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.


Job Description for "Sales Engineer" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge


"Sales Engineer"   Holland / RIASEC Career Code:  E-R-I        SOC:  41-9031.00


 

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