Proxima Sales company hiring people who want REAL balance.

News stories keep crossing my desk at Proxima Sales responding to the recent NYT piece on Amazon. The theme seems to be: "Here's our take on working our tech company staff to death: they like it." I'm pretty sure the authors of these essays can't hear the historically resonant tones of the pre-union-era (read wayyyy before unions) bosses saying that their immigrant, ethnic minority, and other under-class workers just love to work that hard.

All this glorification of how nicely workers are treated, while working for their entire careers with 24/7 availability to their employer, is just a bit too much to swallow.

The lovely CEO at VMware, Pat Gelsinger, is a good Christian guy who, back in the day, literally wrote the book on work-life balance. Today, he extolls in Business Insider the many ways that his company makes it easy to cheerfully work endlessly. He shows no signs of self-consciousness when he describes how easy they make it at VMware to bring your family on campus to share dinner with you AT WORK. He nearly broke an arm patting himself on the back for the annual Halloween family event. Recently, while salmon fishing at the mouth of the Columbia river with his son, he even found the off switch on his phone! (Pro tip: the Columbia is a nature-bats-last kind of river. If you think you can fish, take a call and survive the mighty Columbia rolling on....you just might be a tech CEO).

My intention is not to dun any particular company, or worse, blame the workers who go along with these arrangements. Nope. My intention is to invite you to apply to Proxima Sales. You will not be asked to be available 24/7. You will in fact be required to use your vacation, volunteer, family, and other leave time because we don't enjoy working with clinically exhausted martyrs. You'll make more money and have real time off. This value proposition is the very real reason that Proxima Sales has no trouble at all recruiting and retaining talent, in every department, that is far superior in skills and more experienced than our size should allow.

Will you ever take a call from a Proxima Sales client at 4pm on Christmas Eve? Maybe. I did last year, but Christmas isn't big at our house so I held phone duty for everyone on the team who was busy celebrating. Did one of our salespeople cut into her own vacation to onboard a new client who said their availability required it? Yes, she did. Will she do such a favor for that particular client again? That's another post.

We have no problem admitting that our distributed company, focused on building sales for our clients, is not a low-effort place to work. With genuine power to build your own schedule, we expect you to deliver phenomenal service to our clients and your co-workers when you're at work. We do not serve dinner so you'll need to arrange to eat with your family. Our bonus system rewards results rather than role-playing Mad Men, though, so if you have call reluctance, please continue avoiding the phone and don't call me.

If some of this sounds great, shoot me an email: kate@proxima-sales.com. If you think any of this was helpful or even slightly amusing, please join us so you can help share blogging duties.

Have we mentioned that we're hiring skilled, professional sales staff?

Recently, our partners have been brainstorming about options to present the value of working at Proxima Sales.

What we can promise is, we're not crazy. We won't assert a right to monitor your movements 24/7, through a required tracking app installed on your phone. We won't fire anyone who objects to being managed by a process of looking at location logs & criticizing time spent en route...and if your sales manager thinks that adds value, one of you isn't necessary.

Seriously, Intermex? Today's free sales management tip: Good salespeople won't accept salary plus ankle bracelet.

Join a WInner, Proxima Sales--our company is growing and hiring

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Proxima Sales is growing and the company is hiring.

Our sales positions are salaried, full-time, location flexible,  and require at least ten years of experience in the vertical market or industry where your relationships are strong.

Current needs include:

Healthcare, medical device embedded technology team leader. Proxima Sales offers full company infrastructure and suppport and training in industry specifics for someone with appropriate technology expertise in embedded device and related products.

Financial services, prefer banking, background with super strong internet security and compliance related subject matter expertise.

Legal services and vendors - You need to have either sold high-end information and compliance related services into law firms or have built new business for a law firm.

Learn a bit about our company and then shoot Kate Parker an email with why you think you should join our team.

About Katherine Parker kate@proxima-sales.com

Katherine Parker, Kate to her friends, has been closing major sales for technology companies since the road warrior’s best friend was a Compaq luggable. In addition to leading new business initiatives at Proxima sales, Kate still makes at least 50 quality sales calls each week for the company, into the markets she knows best.

Proxima Sales reviews best in class tech solutions and closes sales for best in class companies offering complex intangibles within the North American market. 

You can find Proxima Sales on Twitter  @Proximasales

Proxima Sales is hiring

If you are an experienced technology sales professional, we may have your next great job.

Proxima Sales reviews the best of class tech solutions in the industries we serve. We provide software, professional services, and a wide variety of IT services firms with outsourced sales services and solutions.

You need at least ten years out on the road representing services and solutions, vertical market subject matter expertise, and a desire to build sales for great companies.

We offer a good salary, better commissions, and a full range of benefits.

We are a distributed company and don't care where you live as long as you have already mapped out, and frequently reviewed, every route to your nearest airport.

We want people who understand the thrill of building sales for quality clients and don't need a whole lot of babysitting or Monday morning donut diatribes to get the job done.

Want to talk? Proxima Sales reviews resumes by hand so take the time to review our website and then Email Kate Parker at kate@proxima-sales.com and tell us why you think you might be a good fit with our team. We promise we'll respond.