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Looks like the graduate jobs market in the US is looking poor, according to a research by Gallup up to twice as many are likely to be unemployed.

Well thank goodness the UK graduate jobs market is not seeing the same outlook.  Let's hope the economy carries on expanding in 2010.

Labels: graduate employers, graduate jobs

• We need to increase our sales but there's a headcount freeze.
• We don't know where the market is going in two years but there is a short term growth opportunity that we want to maximise.
• We have a pilot project but we cannot commit to building a permanent sales team until we know it will fly.
• The company has been through a round of redundancies but we need a new sales force quickly.

Labels: improve sales, sale training, sales assessment centre, sales outsourcing, sales team

Current Ryder Cup Captain and iconic golfer, Colin Montgomerie, once commented that he could take any high handicap golfer round a course and knock several shots off their handicap through improving course management and better club selection.

In this sales arena we work we see too many people who are constantly hacking around for years and don’t ever improve, they just reinforce bad habits.

So let's take a leaf out of old Monty's golfing manual and commit to getting our sales handicap down.  How I hear you all ask, metofrically anyway, well download our latest innovative and informative guide.

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Graduate job hunters may be interested to hear that the Conservative Party plan to set up a "service academy" which could create up to 50,000 work and training positions for unemployed individuals via partnerships with major employers.




Of course this piece of legislation requires David Cameron's party to be elected to government later this year but if it does then big firms including Pizza Express, Starbucks, InterContinental Hotel Group and Whitbread are laying in wait to help.



As part of the initiative, the academy would train people in necessary skills that most employers require, People Management reports.



Theresa May, the shadow secretary of state for work and pensions said: "The creation of a service academy will not only give people practical skills but also an entry route into a career in a growing area of business."



Shadow chancellor George Osborne added: "The argument is that we need a sustainable private-sector recovery to create new jobs. That we cannot go on relying the public sector to provide the great majority of new jobs, as we did over the last decade."



The general election is rumoured to be scheduled for May 6th 2010.

Labels: graduate employers, graduate jobs

Graduates hoping to find employment at a big firm have been handed a boost by the news that nearly half of chief executives (CEOs) who took part in a recent survey are confident of increasing their headcount in 2010.


The poll, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, showed that 42 per cent of UK CEOs plan on increasing their headcount over the next year as part of a growing investment in staff.
 
Said survey, revaled at Davos, suggests that CEOs are trying to find ways in getting the best staff and increasing employee retention, something that could suit the brightest and best graduates.

Michael Rendell, partner and leader of human resource services at PwC, said: "We are all well-versed in the assertion that the deep cost-cutting and headcount reduction many companies felt forced to undertake during the recession could impact speed of recovery and competitiveness so it's encouraging that CEOs are now prioritising the people agenda."
  

Labels: graduate employers, graduate jobs, graduate recruitment schemes

Sales Training is key to any sales strategy, but what innovations and ideas are the training companies bringing to the table to improve the quality of sales professionals?  Read Pareto's Sales Training Directors thoughts on creating a sales training strategy in a recent article in SalesPro.  The View from the Sales Trainer

Labels: sale training, sales training strategy, training