“Professional selling is among the most common types of jobs for graduating business students,” says Mark Mantey, co-director of the Sales Leadership Center in Cal State Fullerton’s Mihaylo College of Business and Economics. The center provides networking opportunities, sales competitions and career training for students interested in developing sales skills. “Some research shows that as many as 60 percent of all business majors and 88 percent of all marketing majors start their career in a sales-related role.”
Mantey shares the bright future of students considering sales as a career and the wide range of high-paying positions in finance, construction, hospitality and manufacturing. Continue reading.