Proxima Sales, is hiring NOW. We're growing and you can too.

Proxima Sales is hiring four experienced technology specialty salespeople, preferably before the end of May. We're growing and we have all sorts of new projects that need the right people to help us maximize sales for our clients. Proxima Sales reviews what prospects are buying, when, and how. So when we're hiring, it's because we have already scoped out the need.

We have one simple request to begin our hiring process: get to know Proxima Sales. Figure out the company we keep. Read our blogs. Review the Proxima Sales web site. https://www.proxima-sales.com . Think about what you might add to our distributed company of experienced, quirky, workaholic, fun loving, kindness obsessed, technology professionals and send us a note (my email is at the bottom of this and every post) describing what you can add to what we offer Proxima Sales clients.

Proxima Sales works with companies to grow their sales. We do not offer marketing consulting, collateral, or training. So if you are not a died-in-the-wool, I couldn't imagine doing anything else for a living, sales person, you won't be a fit. We need people who know the difference between a cold call and a waste of breath. We need people who know that it takes years to learn what calls not to bother making and who also know who to call instead.

If you think relationships are LinkedIN or other social media contacts, you probably won't like our old-guard ideas about what counts as a real contact and what we do to maintain those relationships. Speaking of maintaining relationships, we don't care where you live as long as you like to travel - nearly everyone is on the road at least some. The road warriors are 60-70% travelers, and yes, they keep all of the Southwest and United points they rack up.

We do pay a salary and benefits. If you would be happy living on our salary, you will not like working at Proxima Sales. We eat what we kill. So bonuses based on successfully building new business for our clients are what you'll need to earn to buy yourself a boat. Or a semester of tuition at the college your daughter is currently selecting.

Please, stop if you are already looking us up on LinkedIN or firing your resume into our inboxes. Send us something that passes the sniff test for whether you understand our model.

We don't give funny tests like the big G. We don't auto-scan thousands of resumes a week like Facebook and the other giants. We do make hiring decisions very, very quickly when the match is right.

You can find me, Kate Parker kate@proxima-sales.com and other Proxima Sales company contributors in lots of places:

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When is a headphone jack, not just a headphone jack?

Apple's new iPhone won't have a headphone jack and several generally respected reviewers, including CNET, say, "get over it" and, "no big deal".

Whoops and hold up there technology cowboys. The Apple headphone jack is far more than a place to plug in headphones that are, so, five years ago.

TechCrunch apple jack story        TechCrunch agrees with our team. The headphone jack isn't really a headphone jack, it's the port for nearly every add-on, assistance, productivity, and other non-app tool, that lots and lots of people have built to serve niche markets and user communities, on and with the fabulous iPhone, Apple platform.

Proxima B2B reviews technology companies, trends, and solutions. We rarely wade into the product review space covered so well by the CNET's and TechCrunch and ZDnet's of the world.

So why now? Well, besides CNET and some other media, simply blowing this product announcement by obsessing about the cool camera, more than two of Proxima Sales's employees are people with amazing expertise, experience, and skill, who happen to be deaf or HOH (hard of hearing). We also have an employee who is visually challenged who uses iPhone assistive add-ons for what mere glasses can't provide him.

These employees are core staff and we think they should be able to communicate in whatever fashion makes their jobs and their lives work best for them. Each of these employees uses the headphone jack on their iPhone for a different assistive technology (or five). These are every day tools that cost our company a few hundred dollars a year to reimburse our employees for, when they need a replacement or an upgrade. They are cheap and easy because they use existing mini jack and other built in (usually Bluetooth) technology.

When I asked one of our gadget enabled staff members what it was like before she had her plug in device that makes phone calls easier for her, she said, that, "the old stuff, before all the iPhone accessories, was expensive, big, and really out of date. Also everyone could see it was some weird special 'deaf person' thing." She went on to say that she doesn't have to have as much support from friends or co-workers, ASL interpreters, etc. because there are so many tools, including apps, as well as 3.5mm jack enabled, that allow her to do all of her job and life related tasks on her own. This is small jack is no small thing. 

Proxima Sales company reviews a lot of technology roll-outs in a year. We're generally cheering in the front row as sales outsourcing and consulting clients of Proxima Sales debut new solutions, upgrades, and enhancements. Every once in a blue moon we see a roll-out that has the palm slap to face effect -- why did they do this? Why go backward? Why be less customer-centric? Why create even a small storm of user fury over a feature that is well loved, and well understood.

Apple, it's not too late. We know, thinner, yada yada, next generation, blah blah, back down and let us keep our 3.5mm headphone jacks of connectivity. From our seats at the Apple event, it looked like the only cheers for this change were folks clueless about any use beyond old white ear-buds.

Oh, and by the way, Proxima Sales is in the market for a few more great employees. Yep, we're really fierce about offering real opportunities and hiring people who want to work with our team and have skills to bring. Feel free to apply by whatever means works best for you. Email me, Kate Parker, kate@proxima-sales.com, and I'll get you connected to the right people.

Needless to say we're an equal opportunity employer with great benefits, fair salary plus bonus compensation plans, and support for all sorts of diversity.