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For this assignment, you are required to interview a salesperson. This should be someone who works in a professional$/$technical$/$industrial $($etc$)$ sales position, not retail or home$-$based businesses. People in these positions typically have titles such as: Sales Representative, Account Executive, Sales Specialist or Sales Consultant. The interview must be conducted in person OR via a virtual meeting platform $($such as Zoom$).$

If you need help finding someone to interview, or want to make sure your interviewee is appropriate for this assignment, reach out to your instructor as soon as possible.

Ask the following questions and develop $2-3$ additional questions of your own.

What are the key skills required in your job?

How do you prepare for sales calls with new customers? Do you have a template that you use?

How has professional selling changed in the past few years?

What was the first big mistake that you made early on in your sales career that had an impact on you or caused you to change your approach?

In the realm of your sales career, what lesson$($s$)$ have you learned the hard way?

Conduct your interview and then write up a summary of your interview and what you learned. Consider the following:

How did the salesperson's answers match up to what we've been covering in this course?

Did anything surprise you?

How could$/$will you take what you've leamed from this assignment and apply it to your future career?

This paper should be formatted in APA. Review APA guidelines and see examples here. All sources for this paper should be cited in APA, with proper in$-$text citations.