Are sales jobs recession-proof?
Posted on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
As I read more gloomy news these days about companies being bailed out and retrenching their workers, I can’t help but hope the economic crisis doesn’t get any worse.
I have a friend who works in sales and she’s never worried about losing her job. In fact, she quits her jobs quite often in search of better pastures.
People with jobs in sales can easily adapt themselves into most other industries with the learning curve frequently involving only those products they’re selling.
Well, of course, I may have oversimplified the picture here but the idea is that if you can sell one thing, you can pretty much sell anything. And so people like my friend has no worries about finding a job if she’s not fussy about taking a pay cut now and then.
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i couldn’t agree more – these large companies that are being bailed out by the governments do not live in the real world. The real world of business means you have a product to sell, you sell it or you don’t have a business – simple IMO.
If the large car makers and financial institutions need money then its because the aren’t making money and if they aren’t making money then why will giving them more improve things.
Sales is more of a general skill as opposed to an industry specific profession (law, computer systems, doctor). So they can work in any business, and usually have good contacts across many networks and industries.
That aside, you would think in an economic crisis that the oversupply of salespeople combined with a dip in demand for sales staff would cause the loss of jobs.