Question

1. Examine the possibility of a career in computer hardware sales. Which area of sales do you believe holds the brightest prospects for young college graduates—servers, mainframe computers, supercomputers, or high-volume storage devices? Why? What would be some of the advantages and disadvantages of a career in computer hardware sales?

2. A friend of yours texted you that he is considering changing his major to computer engineering. He wants to meet with you and get your input on this move. Do some research to find out just what is a computer engineer and what do they do. What are the career prospects, and what sort of education and experience is required to become a computer engineer?

3. How might supercomputers be employed in your current or future career field?

Answer 1

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Computer Hardware Sales

Computer hardware sales includes job as sales representative, wholesale and manufacturing expert. Sales person is responsible for sell goods for wholesalers or manufactures to business or group of individuals. For the career prospective this field is good and has lot of challenges. Selling goods require negotiation skills and skill to convince the customer to buy the goods.

With the popularity of cloud computing the hardware sales representative challenges have increased more. Business are moving to cloud now a days and this has limited the opportunity of selling the hardware to customer.

Still there are opportunities to sell the hardware to the data centers. This includes selling servers, large storage devices etc.