Scott Deane is the Marketing Manager of meta-morphose international, a specialist graduate sales training agency. The company have graduate jobs in the UK and Internationally.
A savvy graduate in the United Kingdom needs to know where graduate sales recruitment takes place in order to maximise his time and effort. Graduates who pursue the impersonal path of sending out applications via the Internet are missing out on an important aspect of graduate sales recruitment. Employers and recruiters look for graduate sales people who are interested in getting out to meet diverse groups of people. You can maximise your efforts in finding graduate sales work by pinpointing high-traffic areas for recruitment.
Corporate open houses may seem like an obvious venue but many graduates bypass these events in favour of the informal application process. These open houses are designed to give applicants as well as the general public a view of a company’s inner workings. You cannot stand in the corner at these events and expect to make an impression on corporate employees. Your conversations with sales people, recruiters and executives will work favourably toward finding success in graduate sales recruitment.
Graduates can learn the steps needed to succeed in future jobs by attending speeches by corporate officers, inventors and other experienced professionals. These events are invaluable to understanding what sales departments look for in graduate sales professionals. The best events to attend are question-and-answer sessions where you can speak directly to the person on stage. You can impress the person on stage as well as prospective employers in the audience with considerate questions.
Every graduate should know how to stand out from the crowd for graduate sales recruiters at university fairs. You need to pick up a map of booths throughout a university fair to determine the most efficient route for the amount of time available. A well-developed sales pitch about your qualifications to a recruiter can shoot you to the top of the list of applicants. You should produce enough resumes for every table at a university fair to spread your qualifications out as far as possible.
Many graduates fail to realise the power of a student internship in garnering attention during graduate sales recruitment. An internship with a sales department gives you insight into the skills needed for full-time sales people. You can also learn about marketing and recruitment efforts from their inception through completion. This inside information can be used during graduate sales recruitment whether it is creating a well-informed CV or using sales language in interviews that cannot be learned in the classroom.
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