In your opinion, what sales skills are employers looking for in a sales rep nowadays?

• an outgoing and likable personality
• confident and authoritative speaker
• strong presentation skills
• confidence in your own abilities
• a high degree of self-motivation
• a passion for selling
• personal ambition
• resilience and persistence
• ability to communicate with people at all levels
• strong negotiation skills
• able to work own your own initiative and as part of a team
• results orientated
• good time management                                                                                        These are the skills from my point of view that a sales person should have .

•Communication skills.

•Marketing and selling skills.

•Working under pressure.

•The ability to change a customer’s attitude.

•Able to learn new tasks quickly.

•Superb ability to persuade.

•The ability to Control over others.

•Responsible.

• Negotiation Skills.

•Ability to work in groups.

Human beings are creatures of Habits, it is not only the sales person intelligence, it is what the company training strategies. You can push the sales person to make sales, but they do it as per their experience and education to a certain limit. However the company need to give them a flash light in the dark roads they will pass in..... The sales persons are our partners and usually with partners you tell them what is the plan... (If you have a clear plan)   ;-)) Best of Luck to all of you.. 

Enthusiasm to learn new products

Ability to adapt to the new environment

Proactive

Communication and negotiating skills

Convincing Power

Presentation skills

Independent to take up new challenges

Self Motivated

Hardworking

Good Customer Relations

Interpersonal skills

Ability to solve problems

High self esteem, consistency, Goal oriented, Good communication skills and PR, Friendly 

being a good sales first is your behaviour

you know how to respect other person

being kind to others

friendly

always smile while your talking to your clients or costumer

work under pressure

and of course you know how to listen on what others suggestion coz its also a way for you to become a good sales.,

knows how to sell the product well by being knowlegeable of it,customer service oriented, ability to work under pressure, ability to reach the required sales target,and the drive and passion in selling.

Managment Skills

Time managment

communication skills

follow-up skills

networking

software skills

languages skills

A Good Sales Person must have the ability to understand the needs and wants of a client,  She or He must have the understanding of the product and the target market. Nowadays sales man always after to the "commission",  "to sold"  and to prospect without digging the needs, more often become the hard sell process. The outcome is no repeat orders and repeat clients. Sales Person must give value to their client base and always have the good customer service even after sales. Sales in not a hard process, if you are knowledgable in the business and giving attention to the details of the clients. It will never be hard sell, Keep in your mind everyone was always a consumer, so be the sales person you are looking for as well. provide quality service.  

(In brief) To my mind, the employers are looking for these skills in Sales;

• Sales person should be polite and a good listener.
• Sales person should have good sensible communication skills
• Sales person should understand the needs of the customers/clients.
• Sales person should have a logical answers to convince their customers/clients.
• Sales person should have excellent product knowledge.
• Sales person should be a problem solver for their customers/clients
• Sales person should be sociable.
• Sales person should have good positive body language.
• Sales person should  avoid any loose talk.
• Sales person should have better customer relation.

These above mentioned qualities are mandatory for a sales person and he will be the boon to the organization/company.

Employers are looking for a sales person who is:

1- Trust worthy: Because to buy is to trust and if a client trust you he will buy from you.

2- Listener more than talker: Listen to clients needs and wants.

3- Be Transparent about the product.

4- Good Behavior and manners.

5- Be optimistic.

6- Follow up until he drops: keep on pushing no matter what to achieve is goals

7- Never give up and is not a quieter.