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My first thought is to look for math, philosophy, economics, business management majors. Those jobs don't necessarily have such a direct path into the work plac
by retroafroman 15y ago
My first thought is to look for math, philosophy, economics, business management majors. Those jobs don't necessarily have such a direct path into the work place like mechanical engineering, accounting, or nursing. Friends I've had in those categories have a harder time finding jobs, especially if they have no experience.
Secondly, many of the people who work in sales that I know didn't stay long with school, because at some point they realized they could do well based on their hustle alone. College/university is often seen as a 'safe' bet, while dropping out and working as a commission based salesman isn't, so it attracts a different crowd. The recommendation is to then maybe not focus on recent, inexperienced college grads, but focus on sales people without industry experience who are willing to make a switch. Facebook ads could help target these, maybe?
- nrao123 15y agoWe find that more experienced sales people are not a great fit to what we are trying to do since they don't get the tech part of our solution, more risk averse etc. We do offer a base + incentive model and not just a commission only model. We are major agnostic as long as people have shown some amount of determination to doing a sales job.