{"id":14910,"date":"2017-11-01T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14910"},"modified":"2017-10-30T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T19:16:32","slug":"camosun-student-club-encourages-students-to-consider-sales-as-a-career-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/01\/camosun-student-club-encourages-students-to-consider-sales-as-a-career-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student club encourages students to consider sales as a career path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun Marketing Communication Management student Mehtab Saluja has been working in sales for over five years. In 2016, he was approached by a recruiting organization with the task of strengthening the relationship between students and the sales industry. With that, the Great Camosun Sales Club student club was formed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to get more involvement from post-secondary students,\u201d says Saluja. \u201cThey are looking for young and fresh talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mehtab Saluja wants to bring his love of sales to Camosun students (photo by Renata Silva\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The club\u2019s purpose is to introduce the option of sales as a career path and to show the value of sales as a skill set. Saluja says that careers in sales carry a negative stigma, and some people might not be interested in joining the group because they haven\u2019t considered working in the field. However, Saluja says that there\u2019s more to sales than people may think.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is sales\u2014how you dress for work, how you behave\u2014and you can learn all this through sales interactions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Saluja says that he has fun working in sales; he sees every conversation with a client as a personal challenge to not lose the customer\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have those skill sets developed, you can keep people into the conversation,\u201d he says. \u201cYou know when to stop talking and what are the right amount of words to say, which is really valuable in networking in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun Marketing student Alisha Dsouza is a member of the Great Camosun Sales Club; she says that her relationship with sales wasn\u2019t always positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, honestly, hated sales,\u201d she says. \u201cBut after one year working as a sales associate, I learned that it\u2019s all about communication and having empathy with somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Dsouza, sales skills are one of the most transferrable skill sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor whichever job that you apply,\u201d she says, \u201cyou must sell yourself to the employer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main focus of the club this year is the Great Canadian Sales Competition. The competition is an event that challenges students from Canada to record a 90-second video pitch. It\u2019s a three-round competition, with the final round happening in Toronto. The competition is an opportunity for networking and developing the sales skills emphasized by the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club offers personalized help for everyone who is interested in participating in the competition,\u201d says Saluja. \u201cWe are available as a resource to help to develop and to create your idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putting yourself in situations that require the use of new skills isn\u2019t always comfortable. Saluja explains that being part of a club like the Great Camosun Sales Club helps with that self-development.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can only develop yourself by getting into these experiences,\u201d he says, \u201cfailing a few times, learning from your mistakes, and seeking guidance, when you need it, from the right places.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun Marketing Communication Management student Mehtab Saluja has been working in sales for over five years. In 2016, he was approached by a recruiting organization with the task of strengthening the relationship between students and the sales industry. With that, the Great Camosun Sales Club student club was formed. \u201cThey need to get more involvement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-1-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}