We have researched and looked for the sales graduate jobs from leading recruitment employers throughout the UK. We then looked at their employment and graduate schemes and brought them together, we have compiled one simple page to ensure for you one easy route to finding out about the sales graduate recruiters in the country
Industry Background
If you are a graduate looking for corporate sales you will find it is an enormously dynamic sphere of the business world in which graduates are able to gain excellent financial reward and progress quickly up the professional ladder. Essentially, corporate sales involve business-to-business selling, where sales are directed at board level of a company rather than towards an individual consumer.
As a corporate sales person you will be expected to maintain and develop relationships with existing clients and to find new business selling your company's products/services. You will therefore spend the vast majority of each day speaking to clients, cold calling and negotiating.
What Qualifications Will You Need?
Companies are not generally concerned about what subject degree you achieved - they just want to know you have a certain level of education. The job can be tough - you are likely to work in a high-pressured environment and may work long hours but on the plus side, apart from the obvious financial rewards, you could travel extensively and meet a huge number of people.
What Skills Will You Need?
You need to be extremely confident in your own abilities and able to build rapport with colleagues and clients quickly and effectively. Excellent interpersonal skills are therefore a must, as are persuasive verbal skills and resilience - you need to be able to pick yourself up after that big deal has fallen through. You need to be extremely confident in your own abilities and able to build rapport with colleagues and clients quickly and effectively. Excellent interpersonal skills are therefore a must, as are persuasive verbal skills and resilience - you need to be able to pick yourself up after that big deal has fallen through.
A good telephone manner, persistence, energy, enthusiasm and a professional appearance and manner will also stand you in good stead and it is essential that you are articulate and show initiative and motivation.
