my CV for Sales Rep Job

[dan288]

This thread is funny as fook

at the end of the day....

Spoiler:

WHO GIVES A FUCK!

[MaKas]

sorry for jumping in but im with the doubters here . i have repped and managed a small sales team and if ur cv landed on my desk i would have pmsl and handed it to the boys. BUT if this is for real........................well done

yeah well as I said its a trainee role and I am 19 years old... I posted previously stating that I didnt produce my CV on the day because of the bad comments i got in this topic. So far its going well, I have a nice astra, a soon to be delivered fuel card, business cards and a ledger... today is my first day on the road alone.

Wish me luck

MaKas

[Roach-Rampino]

You are a bizarre chap Makas. You are extremely open about what you are up to but that's you choice to disclose as much or as little about your life. Personally I think you are telling the truth, as you are so frank about pretty much everything you post.

Good luck in your new job, I wouldn't worry to much about what others think, it's your life.

[Shambles]

^--- what he said, and yup... good luck son.

[Lou_smorals]

Hi
I don't disbelieve him either, I just think the Job he has been given is very strange as its going to be very expensive for both him and his employer to send a young lad to visit customers and most of them will feel uneasy ordering from a young guy with little product knowledge.
Makas's income tax on that Astra will be around £2500 and another £2500 for the fuel so he will have to pay tax on an extra £5000 @ 23% so roughly an extra £100 per month income tax.
I have worked for several companies as a Field Sales Manager with teams of "reps" and none of these companies would ever have allowed me to take on a rep younger than 21. The insurance they have to pay on that Astra must be shocking.
I am glad he has managed to get a start however and hope it all works out.
LS

[Little John]

I missed this earlier and only read it in preparation for the awards, Lou_smorals your constant whining over the cost of insurance is bolox, the company will have a fleet insurance covering all their cars to be driven by anyone they give permission to. the fact they have given a car to a 19 year old wont make that much difference if any. My first company car was a 1.6 Escort 12 months old the boss didn't go on about giving the car to an 18 year old in fact I got a 1.8 escort 12 months later and occasionally drove the reps mondeos and had a drive of the bosses TVR before he wrote it off and killed 2 people.

MaKas, watch out for the £450 added to your wages. knock the tax and NI out of it and then see how much your left with. it ain't no where near the cost of buying a car and insuring it month to month for a 19 year old especially if your looking to buy something nice, motorway cruising you need something comfortable and they arnt £300 a month cars. read the fine print when it comes to buying your car, I have seen clauses in them like nothing over 3 years old, no smaller than a vectra/mondeo/3 series. your looking at 6-12 month old cars maybe to fit in the budget. ohh and your insurance needs to cover you for business use remember no social domestic and pleasure policy for you. also take in to account additional running costs fuel, servicing, tax they all add up. company cars are easy I have been using them until last month yeah you get taxed but it is nowhere near the cost of running a car yourself.

good luck in the new job, and great decision on not using the CV, you must admit it was shite. I remember when I did my first CV you put everything on it just to make it look full yeah all those GCSE grades but it looks much better to leave the crap stuff out like E in technology because the teachers taught us the wrong stuff for 12 months so just the decent grades go in there job info that is relevent for the job your going for.

Sales reps are the most arrogant type of person ever, they annoy me both the ones I have worked with and been sold from constant pestering of the customer it takes a certain person to do it and isnt a job I can do, but if you reach the targets then you can make a lot of money at it.

So how is the job going? youve been there a few weeks?

[Lou_smorals]

Hi
sorry you thought I was constantly whining, I was trying to help. I perhaps need your advice then because on my car I am taxed on £6000 per year and its only a bloody Octavia! £3k for car £3k for fuel. in my previous position as sales manager with a Sales force of over 60 reps, Fleet manager would not allow any driver below 21 "as it nearly doubled the price of insurance for the fleet" - but I am a Salesman not a fleet manager so took him at his word - if this was lies I apologise. I thought there were much more negative posts than mine I was sincerely pleased for the guy, I wonder why my posts were singled out for critism?
OP seems to be doing well thats what really matters
LS

[MaKas]

Ive been here a few weeks, just got back from Milton Keynes. Did a 2 day telesales course and I think it went well (Death by powerpoint >_<)

I havent done any solid sales yet so not much commision but i have made 6 appointments, 4 of which i have sent out quotes and 2 which i am very confident about. Depending on what machine you sell depends on how much Commision you get... average is from £1000 to £2500 per machine. Im aiming to get an extra grand in my pay next month

A lad I work beside just done a 5 year lease deal on about 18 machines i think... something like that anyway he should be expecting an additional £30,000 in his paypacket niceee

ps. This doesnt happen often although they all make roughly 70-100grand yearly

[stevo25]

wot do u sell???

[MaKas]

Were a manufacturer direct of digital photocopiers and printers, all in one machines blah blah

"Document Solutions" we refer it as.

[stevo25]

h ok so ur a "pushy obnoxious prick who sells photocopiers" <<-joke hope u do well and dont get ur appointments knicked. do u make ur own?

[MaKas]

yeah exactly m8... i come accross as a right prick on the phones

I make my own appointments yes but as i am training I do not go alone nor do I say much.

All just a learning curve

[Swiss Tony]

i come accross as a right prick on the phones

..........Some of your posts in here aren't too clever either mate




:emot125: only joshing wit ja

[MaKas]

lol im 19, its expected that I should be wet behind the ears. I only jst started tidying my own room, hoovering and doing the washing.

Give me a few more years and then ill "know everything" like the rest of you grumpy bastards.

Then 1 day i might get a chance to step on the soap box and chastise some poor kid who didnt understand a film too well and wanted to grasp the storyline. Then again maybe not...

JUST KIDDING WITH YOU 2 mate

[Little John]

Hi
sorry you thought I was constantly whining, I was trying to help. I perhaps need your advice then because on my car I am taxed on £6000 per year and its only a bloody Octavia! £3k for car £3k for fuel.

OP seems to be doing well thats what really matters
LS

that is a lot to be taxed on

The amount your taxed on is a complex calculation based on based on the list price of the car, fule type, emisions fugures etc. It always seems to work out about a third of the value of the car per year so an octavia the top 2.0 D is about 20k so each year you will be taxed on 6.6k for the car. if you company pays for private fuel use.

Now over the period of a year that would cost you about:
if your taxed at 22% £800-900 for the car and £600ish for the fuel. total £1500 for 1 year of trouble free motoring.
if your taxed at 40% its more like £1600 for the car and £1200 for fuel. but it is still less than the cost of running a car yourself.

at 22% that is about the same as my insuarnce for running my own car for business use. so company cars are way chaeper than running your own, never mind the £80-100 a week fuel bill ohh and buying the car in the first place.

[jw_2000_uk]

Jesus,ive seen this thread pop up,and never read it,then 3 pages worth.I thought "lets have a look"

Aint stopped laughing, i dont know who to belive lol.

If its all true FAIR PLAY

If not then you need to grow up

Think ur being hounest though.

Good luck