Trainee Sales Jobs
What is a “Insurance Sales Manager Trainee”?
I applied for a job as a Sales Manager Trainee and have a interview, And am curious what exactly one does. I am a good manager, And have experience with customer service, And managing a small business. But will I be Selling insurance, Or managing those who do? I am more a manager/people person then a salesman. I can sell stuff ok, But not as well as someone who is good at it. The job pays really well PLUS commissions. Obviously I don’t want to ask the employer what the job does, So I figure I will ask you good people. ty
I dunno, If it is just a bad carrying-esque job then they are paying way to much. The job pays 30k a year for a standard 40 hour work week plus commission. The standard pay alone is like 14 bucks an hour. Plus whatever the commissions are.
It looks like the position is a regular, bag-carrying Salesperson job.
Look at the ratio of the commission versus the base salary: if the ratio is 40%C to 60%B, or higher, its a salesperson, not a manager.
A manager has ovverrides from the salespersons he/she manages, so the ratio is usually much lower, maybe 15-20%C.
The title with the word Trainee does not make it look like a manager job – I suspect that if you prove yourself well, you MAY be asked to build up your own team, but that would be some time away.
Graduate Careers – Jan Hofmann first 2 months in Terrapinn
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Parker’s Paradise $25.86 Parker’s Paradise is the author’s fifth book, and yet it is about the beginning of his writing career. It’s a story about the audio-visual business, sight and sound media that takes place in 1950, at WWII’s end. Socha got a lucky break after graduation from college and looking for writing jobs. There weren’t any. It was a period where America was getting back into peacetime activity, building new automobiles and replenishing consumer products that were rationed and scarce during the war. And the whole world was rushing into competition for our market. So selling jobs were much in demand. Fortunately, an opportunity opened in the sales training and promotion business. They needed a writer-trainee in the audio-visual industry, someone who would work cheap and learn the business. Joe Socha by-passed a fine paying job as a salesman and took on that trainee position. And that’s what this book is about.A special talent is involved in sales training and promotion work. It’s not just a matter of writing words. There is the need for applied psychology, being aware of the psychological reasons why people buy. There is knowing how to write copy that is VISUAL, not so easy to do. It is an acquired skill. There is another element involved which separates the men from the boys, as they say. That is to deliver acceptable copy to meet hard deadlines. The author watched many exceptional writers fail because they could not cut the deadlines. Where creativity is involved, it’s not a matter of putting in more time to do the job because the mind often tends to rebel when pressure is applied. It’s a tough combination. A tired mind tends to respond with dull, unacceptable copy.InParker’s Paradise the author tells a story honest with his experience. He started as a trainee at age 30, for gosh sakes. Most people his age were locked into careers already. In the book you see how the business is run, creating copy, surviving the politics of the business where those in |
