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Morglin

I read somewhere that "cold calling" to sell anything would shortly be outlawed anyway?

Lin

Astaroth

Never heard that and would be exceptionally surprised... unless you are only talking about door step cold calling and not telephone as well.

Loop

Yeah he did cold calling a few times, its not a career. He wants a career, not a sales job where he crashes and burns after 6 months of 60 hour weeks.

He isnt scared of hard work, infact he needs to be pushed, but all these jobs are the same old rubbish, even the managers jobs have high turnover.

Thing is he has 2 redundancies on his cv, a relocation from Manchester to here and one job he left (Jani Knig sales again) as they refused to apy his expenses and owe him a lot of money.

He is really struggling to find ANY job with a sort of career!!!

Astaroth

Is he sure that sales is what he wants to be doing then?

Loop

No he isn't sure at all, as he has had many previous problems, but Customer service and Sales roles is all he knows. The sort of jobs he likes (ie customer service managers, team leader etc in office based environment) never get offered to him, they take 1 look at his CV and dismiss him as viable. Which is nonsense, but he is only a piece of paper. He has a professional Cv btw, which get him interview in other roles just not the sort he should be getting at 34 years of age.

Just feeling really down about it all I guess!

Loop

Update, he just called me and laughed down the phone saying he wouldn't work for them in a month of sundays.

They wanted him to work his 1st month at 70 hours a week and be paid for 35...so he could hit his stupidly high targets, so they wanted double the work for half the price. What a joke!

Anyway ethically, he wouldn't take it as they said the loans can be up to and over 40/50% apr and morally he finds this disgraceful.

Anyway back to the drawing board he goes, but im sort of relieved, I would only worry if he worked there.

Oh well...

Astaroth

Personally dont like "professional" CVs unless you are getting the same person to rewrite it for every job that you apply for which I would imagine would get very expensive very quickly (never looked into prices)

After spending 10 years in call centre based sales and customer service I have to say it was fairly unusual for anything above call centre advisor to be recruited externally with the exception of highly technical roles where the T/L was purely a man manager which generally was of little interest to people who had spent years developing technical knowledge and qualifications (in one place team leaders received less pay than their staff).

There is a fair difference between a TL and CSM in terms of duties (at least with the most common definition of the job titles) - has he been either in the past? If so how long ago?