vallumlj

I am currently a sales rep for a garden giftware company and things are not going to good for my company and i would like to move on but not sure which way to go.

Which industries pay quite good money ? Any companies you can think of.

I was thinking of advertising. Yell , thomson local etc

How about Waste recycling ?

Any ideas which i could look into would be good.

Thanks

OllyK

About the safest place to be at the moment is the civil service or in a company that gets a lot of it's income from the government, although even those aren't absolutes at the moment. Capita may be worth a look from the latter category.

The Zohan

Are you thinking 30K OTE with comission/bonus or a basic of 30K?

Neoscooby

Have you thought about pharmaceutical sales, good basics and all the perks.
Heres' a link to a recruitment agency

Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Medical Sales jobs

Matteeboy

Vallum - whatever you do, don't tell any recruiter that you want to jump ship because the company is in trouble.

I've done loads of sales jobs - best paying (in the boom) was recruitment, worst paying but most fun was repping for a surf company.

Trouble is, very few people are doing well at the moment. Are you a new business shark or more of an account manager? Are you into high volume sales or more consultative stuff that might suit something like high end software?

If you can prove you really can sell well in the current climate, you should find a job pretty easily.

Medical sales can be good as mentioned, satellite/digital TV is booming big time, I have an engineering CAD client who seems to be kicking **** and at the other end of the scale, bicycle sales are pretty amazing at the moment!

Ant

Digital tv is on it's **** ATM as Im a englneer but commission based last coulple of years I did 32k a year but as it stands I'll be looking at 28k by April .

Matteeboy

antc - one of my clients is a well known tv provider and they are about to recruit another 1000 staff!

Ant

Ahhh I thought you you meant the installation type but yeh tv sales are booming at moment it just amazes me people buy a £1500 tv but don't want to spend £150 for a aerial

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

Not ITV then!

Matteeboy

antc - these people provide the tv and install it. Not hard to guess who!
And no, not ITV!

hodgy0_2

i would imagine selling debt counselling will be a booming industry in the next few years

vallumlj

At the moment i do 50/50 and to be honest i like both. I enjoy the trill of winning new business plus i enjoy seeing my regular customers.

Is medical sales hard to pick. I mean with all the different products etc.

Matteeboy

I know three people in medical sales - none are super bright but they seem to do well. Very competitive though and you need to hit targets.

Don't go for a job for the perks - go for it because the products interest you.

Bonehead

Arms dealer?

Neoscooby

Not really, you'll generally only be selling a maximum of three products and the training packages are very comprehensive. There are loads of recruitment agencies on the web, just give them a call and see if your interested