I just read an employment ad for a sales position that had this for the title:<\/p>\n
Salesmen<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Honestly, how out of touch can you be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just read an employment ad for a sales position that had this for the title: Salesmen Honestly, how out of touch can you be?<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,15],"tags":[588,530,129],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-ads","category-sourcing","tag-bad-sales-ad","tag-employment-ad","tag-sales-position"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2617,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/08\/more-bad-ad-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":0},"title":"More Bad Ad Writing","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Just saw this title to a sales position ad (emphasis mine): Regional Sales Manager Job \u201cJob\u201d\u2026seriously?\u00a0 Don\u2019t do this in your ads.\u00a0 Salespeople, especially young salespeople, are looking for opportunities, careers, even a path.\u00a0 If you promote the position as a job, you will instantly limit the perspective, or upside,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Communication"","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":642,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/a-new-sales-title\/","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":1},"title":"A New Sales Title","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a sales position title from an employment ad: Inside-Outside Sales Representative I have never seen that one before. 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