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By greg, Thu 19 Jun at 11:36am 
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is it really such a high stress job?

our company has gone through 3 of them in less than 3 months. they seem to appear, then never come out of the sales room...

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By deleted3, Thu 19 Jun at 11:39am 
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It is when your salary is largely commission-based and there's a lot of cold calling

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By greg, Thu 19 Jun at 11:39am 
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tomfrench wrote:

It is when your salary is largely commission-based and there's a lot of cold calling



i dunno if it is commission based here, as it is to try and find new contracts

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By loki, Thu 19 Jun at 1:24pm 
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greg wrote:

is it really such a high stress job?

our company has gone through 3 of them in less than 3 months. they seem to appear, then never come out of the sales room...



I've been thinking about this, as alot of the better paying jobs round here are sales based, like trainee sales executives and recruitment consultants. They were all basic salary plus uncapped commission, so you could potentially earn a lot more than your basic.

One ad even quoted their top consultant as earning £475k after only 4 years working their, and the company car scheme included Aston Martins, BMWs and 911s!!

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By JustThe5, Thu 19 Jun at 1:28pm 
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greg wrote:



our company has gone through 3 of them in less than 3 months. they seem to appear, then never come out of the sales room...



That is a low number, 3 in a month would be normal.

What type of sales is it?


Sometimes a certain product/service is not suited to a person. You also get people who have done the basic account renewals and move into sales or people trying sales out, do not like it.

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By JustThe5, Thu 19 Jun at 1:32pm 
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loki wrote:


One ad even quoted their top consultant as earning £475k after only 4 years working their, and the company car scheme included Aston Martins, BMWs and 911s!!



These companies 'bull-shit' so much.

When I was in previous job, they told me one person made £85k in his first year. Being in a senior department, I found it was about £40k and after seven years at the compnay he was on six-figures.


What they also fail to tell you is the position the person was recruited for.

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By Phoenix, Thu 19 Jun at 1:33pm 
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My brother in law worked in sales for a while. It's horrible, soul destroying work.

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By greg, Thu 19 Jun at 1:42pm 
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JustThe5 wrote:

greg wrote:



our company has gone through 3 of them in less than 3 months. they seem to appear, then never come out of the sales room...



That is a low number, 3 in a month would be normal.

What type of sales is it?



bare in mind our sales team currently consists of 2 people...

their job is to research and find companies that will contract work out to us, we make software

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By Wes, Thu 19 Jun at 1:43pm 
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Sales people should be shot

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By JustThe5, Thu 19 Jun at 1:45pm 
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greg wrote:


their job is to research and find companies that will contract work out to us, we make software



probably temps

You also have to understand it is a very boring job and no reward of a sale.

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