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Or you create a LinkedIn profile and let the headhunter call you, if you're in an industry that uses them.

Best of luck on your search MazdaFace!

AngryCorvair said:

Or you create a LinkedIn profile and let the headhunter call you, if you're in an industry that uses them.

You are right about that,  do the Linked in thing.  But be warned. There are plenty of people who read those looking for candidates, without the connections to actually get you hired.  Be especially wary of people with poor English speaking skills that are difficult to understand.  They may have little connection to the industry they are trying to get you employed in.  

In reply to MazdaFace :   Now May be the time to shift gears. In my youth I learned how to sell at car dealers.  

Now take that skill and move to industries that reward you better with civilized hours and no weekends.  

I shifted into the food industry from there I went into the construction industry.  Both industries had much better rewards and had me out away from the office most of the time.  

You become more of your own boss and your results depend on your ability to discipline yourself.  There is a slippery slope of goofing off rather than actually making the tough sales call.  Failing to properly prepare for the call and just trying to wing it.  

If you can focus properly and really give your full attention to the job the rewards are great.

Be on the lookout, when the sales manager who hired you is replaced you will be on the chopping block.  Doesn’t matter how good you are. Every time I was let go I was either the #1 or 2 best salesman in profit or volume. 

New sales managers want people loyal to them. 

 If you don’t have a 4 year degree it’s hard to get a new job in sales.  Not that you need it. All that’s really needed is the ability to read people and do the work.  

I wound up with 2 degrees ( neither in marketing) but from backwater colleges.  My last was night classes at a local college. 

They don’t care. Ya gotta have the sheep skin.  Yes HR will check. 

In reply to frenchyd :

Man it's like you've lived 100 lives. 

My wife sells pharmaceuticals while she's finishing up school. She's never had a sales job ever, but she's killing it. And acquiring new leads for her company. She gets paid hourly + commission, last week she made $800 in commission off of one sale. A headhunter actually contacted her and had her interviewed for the job out the blue to which she was a but skeptical about. 

In reply to yupididit : Good for her!  Head hunters out of the blue like that can lead her to Really Great Jobs.  By the way the Pharmaceutical industry pays extremely well to those who get results and obviously your wife seems to be one of those.  

However tell her to keep working on that degree. Without it she will hit a wall and it may keep her from her full potential.  Now that she’s got entry and a measure of success it would be horrible  if she didn’t reach her full potential.  If she doesn’t have time try nights and correspondence.  

It  really doesn’t matter what the degree is once she’s in the industry. Tell her to take basic weaving if it will get a degree.  

As for 100 years? Well 3/4 of that and at times I feel 100  

Well I am on LinkedIn and it definitely works. I'd say a combination of LinkedIn and indeed is the way to go these days. 

She'll be done in a few months 

In reply to yupididit :

Good for her. 

I grew up in the used car business and one of the odd things about selling was that it was LESS stressful owning the car lot than it was working for a new car dealer. 

Well I got the job I wanted! I start Wednesday! Its less money than I would like but it is an amazing opportunity with a company that I can grow with. I'll be in charge of all outside purchasing for the local acme brick plant. Super pumped about it!

In reply to MazdaFace :

Well that was quick! Congrats!

CONGA-RATS!  Sometimes (always) the work environment is more important than the money.  I go to work so I can provide for the life and people I love.  If I'm miserable and grumpy with my loved ones in my personal life because of my job, all the money in the world can't fix that.

Cheers!

In reply to MazdaFace :. Happy for you. Congratulations.

.....jump and the net will appear.

Congrats!

Thanks! It's something totally different than what I've always done so I'm looking forward to learning all the equipment and the challenges that come with it. And the hours are impossible to beat: 6am-2:30pm, mon-fri 

In reply to MazdaFace :

Atta way.!  

Just bricks, huh?

In reply to Karacticus :

If I see any coyotes I'll let you know

Sweeeeeet

Woot!

Figured since I have this new job I'd pick up a new car. Rally prepped 510 is now in the stable.