Q3: What goes through your mind when you think of women who joined the workforce before you? In addition, what do you think you could learn from them? It keeps you on your toes, so you will never get bored. Manufacturing will never go away, it is always developing and you never find the same problem twice. You have to be creative and technical and personable and I love the process of it. You get to partner with people to help them overcome a problem or improve a process and ultimately help them achieve their goals. With most sales jobs it’s difficult to explain the value that can be provided, but with Industrial Automation I have specs and throughput and endless amounts of other data that I can use to show the added value. One reason I joined the tech industry is that I’ve always enjoyed the challenge of coming up with solutions to unique problems. Q2: What was your motivation for joining the tech industry? Just don’t let the jerks of the world upset you or slow you down. If you walk in with confidence and know your stuff, you will earn their respect and no one will question you.Īlso, my dad used to tell me “you’re going to get one jerk every month, better to get that out of the way” There are going to be people who are rude and try to say things to affect you, think of those situations as they just got chewed out by a boss or they just had some really terrible news and they needed to get anger and frustration out, but it was not about you. The women in this field do extremely well. Q1: What advice would you give to women entering the tech field? Anything you wish you had known?ĭon't be intimidated because it is a more male-dominated field. I’ve now gone through nine months of training and I am one of the Technical Sales Associates out of Dallas, TX. I then went on to work an internship my junior year where I called at least 80 companies a day with the task to set meetings, and I won the final roleplay presentation competition out of 20+ interns. I went to school at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL where I majored in Marketing with a specialization in sales, and I competed on the sales team for the Seminoles. I grew up knowing I wanted to be in sales because I love talking to people and constructively working together to achieve a goal or solve a problem. My name is Alexis Kelly and I was born and raised in Crystal Lake, Ill.
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