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There’s a Spark in Everyone… We Can Find It

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Steven
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Last Chance to Win an Ultimate Experience

Last Chance to Win an “Ultimate Experience” – Deadline: 28 August 2009

The UK’s largest survey of sales professionals promises to reveal a fascinating insight into the condition of the British sales industry and the impact of the recession.

Previous sales surveys conducted by Milton Keynes based recruiter; Aaron Wallis have been the largest of their kind and were extremely well received by the sales industry, media and academics. This year, in light of the current economic situation Aaron Wallis are expecting the results to be even more interesting.

So far 700 professionals have completed the survey and the deadline for the survey is this Friday.  To participate in this survey and for the chance to put forward an opinion about working in the industry, visit www.survey2009.info

The survey consists of just over 60 questions and will take around ten to twelve minutes to complete. The questions are designed to be a mixture of work and life oriented questions. As an incentive Aaron Wallis are offering to everyone that takes part the chance to win an ‘ultimate experience’. This is a choice of over 100 experiences ranging from a 30 minute ‘Tiger Moth’ flight to an overnight golf break for two to a racing experience in a Lamborghini.

Reponses so far are extremely interesting and include a few surprises. It seems that the sales industry and its workers are wholly upbeat despite the current economic climate.

Results are eagerly awaited by several industry publications including ISMM’s Winning Edge which has dedicated several pages in its Autumn/Winter edition to the surveys’ findings. The survey is also being promoted across most of the major sales related web sites, sales job boards, sales magazines, social networks and the employer and candidate databases at Aaron Wallis.

Robert Scott, the managing director of Aaron Wallis said: “The results so far make very interesting reading and we are excited about collating the results and comparing them with previous surveys we have conducted. We are eagerly awaiting another 200+ responses and are keen for anybody to take part that is willing.”

Official results will be released on 14 September 2009

To view “The State of Sales in 2007” survey, please visit http://www.aaronwallis.co.uk/The%20State%20of%20Sales%20in%20the%20UK.pdf

Aaron Wallis is a UK based sales recruitment employment business.  For sales candidates they offer a unique Career Advice Centre for Sales professionals covering CV Hints, Interview Tips, and advice on preparation, goal setting, presentation skills, reading body language and more.  For employer clients their recruitment services include 12 months rebate, psychometric profiling and skills/ability testing as standard.

The Aaron Wallis specialist recruitment teams are dedicated to a range of specialist sectors that include B2B and Business Services, Media and New Media, Financial Services, Insurance Sales, Retail Sales, FMCG, Pharmaceutical and Medical, Construction and M&E, Engineering and Industrial, Electronics, Scientific and Science, IT and Telecoms and Print and Packaging.

For more information on Aaron Wallis, please visit: www.aaronwallis.co.uk


Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Simply Sales Jobs
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Featured Jobs – Monday 17 August 09

Technical Sales Manager

Location: Across more than 1 region; Salary: Any; Sectors: Industrial/Technical, Public Sector, Field Sales

Stanley-Bostitch markets & manufactures professional fastening tools and fasteners serving industrial, construction and home improvement end users around the world. Bostitch serves these markets through several channels, using a mixture of direct sales people, dealers; distributors, wholesalers and retailers…

Specialists Sales & Business Development Manager

Location: Across more than 1 region; Salary: 40k to 50k Plus car allowence; Sectors: Building/Construction, Industrial/Technical, Professional/Business Services, Field Sales

Plan and execute a strategy for the identification and development of new business opportunities and take accountability for sales business development for the Procurement business unit…

Monday, August 17th, 2009 Simply Sales Jobs
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Sales pay and bonuses on the up

With both basic pay and bonuses rising, sales people are amongst the best-paid employees in business, according to The Chartered Institute of Marketing’s latest Croner Sales Rewards study unveiled on 9 June. Sales professionals are paid more than colleagues in marketing, finance and human resources (HR) at most levels of seniority.

Above average

The average basic salary for a middle manager in sales is just over £38,000 – 5.6% higher than the national average for this level.

At the same time, average pay for a head of sales is £57,060, slightly behind a head of finance on £58,000, but comfortably more than that of heads of marketing on £53,963 and heads of HR on £52,603.

Highest-paid reps

Sales representatives in the South East remain the highest-paid (£27,490 on average), with pay a striking 16% more than the national average. Those in London were the next-highest earners with average pay of £26,716, 13% above the national average.

In contrast, sales representatives in the North East and North West are paid just under 10% below the national average, whilst sales representatives in Northern Ireland are paid 21% below the national average.

Rises

Pay awards for sales professionals averaged 3.2%, and are expected to remain roughly unchanged in the coming year at 3%. Once again, directors received the highest increase in earnings, up this year by 6.8%, whilst junior managers received the lowest increase at 1.3%.

Bonuses

Outside director level, fewer sales professionals received bonuses compared with last year, but the value of bonuses rose. Bonuses for the 31% of senior sales managers who received them were on average £7,780, whilst the 36% of sales directors who collected a bonus received on average £21,600.

Attracting talent

‘With the UK economy still in recession, organisations will need to hold on to their most experienced salespeople and attract the brightest talents if they are to tough it out until the economy recovers,’ said head of research and professional development at The Chartered Institute of Marketing, David Thorp.

‘Organisations appear to have recognised this and our latest study confirms that businesses are rewarding their most experienced salespeople well for their vital contribution.’

Courtesy of ModernSelling.com

Friday, August 14th, 2009 Simply Sales Jobs
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