And unless you're applying for an absolute entry-level position, nobody will hire you for a sales job if you don't have a fat, juicy contact list. A list of cl

And unless you're applying for an absolute entry-level position, nobody will hire you for a sales job if you don't have a fat, juicy contact list. A list of clients that you have an established relationship with is to sales what experience with a set of technologies is to software engineering. The sales industry relies on account executives being able to take their address books with them. If that stops happening, everybody loses.