{"id":1402,"date":"2008-02-05T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/the-demand-for-salespeople\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T10:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:32:40","slug":"the-demand-for-salespeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/the-demand-for-salespeople\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demand For Salespeople"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salespeople, with strong skills, are always in demand in any economy.\u00a0 Certainly some sales opportunities have an ebb and flow tied to the current economic conditions, but those are mainly business-to-consumer positions.\u00a0 From that understanding comes a 2008 sales hiring outlook from Monster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2008 as always, salespeople in nearly any industry will find work, if they\u2019ve got the contacts, the product knowledge and the street savvy. \u201cAny successful salesperson in any industry is able to write their own ticket,\u201d says Brandon Gutman, director of marketing and business development for recruiter Stephen-Bradford Search in New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Couldn’t agree more.\u00a0 As companies make difficult decisions, some strong salespeople are let go due to financial considerations.\u00a0 This fact is why we do not abhor a bit of a hiring slowdown.\u00a0 The slowdown puts some strong salespeople on the street who may have been much harder to recruit out of their former position.<\/p>\n
Some of the hot niches this year:<\/p>\n
Salespeople in hot information technology sectors can remain optimistic, despite the slow economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn online advertising sales, there are more positions open than bodies to fill them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
From biotech to carbon credits to the robots that have replaced factory workers, 2008 will see the continued proliferation of complex products, creating a need for salespeople with high-level skills and special subject-matter expertise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
High-level sales skills are in demand today.\u00a0 The days of shake-and-howdy, round of golf sales calls are waning.\u00a0 Salespeople with the skills to navigate long sales cycles with multiple decision layers are the ones who will be in the most demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salespeople, with strong skills, are always in demand in any economy.\u00a0 Certainly some sales opportunities have an ebb and flow tied to the current economic conditions, but those are mainly business-to-consumer positions.\u00a0 From that understanding comes a 2008 sales hiring outlook from Monster.com. First key graph: In 2008 as always, salespeople in nearly any industry will find work, if they\u2019ve got the contacts, the product knowledge and the street savvy. \u201cAny successful salesperson in any industry is able to write their own ticket,\u201d says Brandon Gutman, director of marketing and business development for recruiter Stephen-Bradford Search in New York. Couldn’t agree more.\u00a0 As companies make difficult decisions, some strong salespeople… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,3,5],"tags":[277,275,38,276,274,273],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-mC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}