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Self marketing is vital for employment success

Experienced professionals looking for sales jobs need to ensure that they market themselves in the right way so they are as employable as possible, according to an expert.

The Guardian's employment guru Jeremy Bullmore told one reader, who found that his experience was stopping him getting job offers, to ensure he made himself attractive to potential employees by getting as many impressive references as possible.

"Make sure you've obtained as many glowing references from them as you can; they should more than compensate for the absence on your CV of any permanent role in a well-known company," he advised.

The expert also told the reader to hone in on his specific skills when writing a covering letter, which could be a good idea for people looking to get into sales jobs in a certain sector, like medicine or engineering.

When workers do find their perfect sales jobs they will not have to wait long until a pay rise, according to Duncan Brown, director of HR business development at the Institute for Employment Studies, who said that pay freezes are starting to be relaxed.

For CV hints and interview advice together with one of the largest information portals available to UK sales jobseekers visit www.aaronwallis.co.uk Aaron Wallis is a leading UK based marketing and sales recruitment agency.

Posted by John Oak
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Filed: 02-06-2010

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