For this assignment you will conduct $2$ interviews with sales professionals. One interviewee should be involved in consumer sales, where you have prolonged contact with customers $($not just checkout at a retail store$).$ The other interview should be with a sales professional involved in business$-$to$-$business selling.

Ask the person in advance if they can spare $20$ minutes for an interview for a college sales class assignment, and when is a convenient time to speak with them. Be prepared with your questions already written, and something to write with $($notebook or laptop$).$

Categories for questions:

$1.$ Description of their career in sales $-$ how long in the industry, previous education or experience, their career path, what they view as a next step.

$2.$ Description of a typical sales encounter $-$ where, with whom, do they find the customer or does the customer come to them?

$3.$ Likes and dislikes of the job, including pay, hours, working conditions, perks.

$4.$ How they learn about products$/$services they sell, and how they learn about customers

$5.$ Any advice they have for someone going into sales in their industry.

The final paper will have this format:

$1.$ Information from Interview $1$

$2.$ Information from Interview $2$

$3.$ Your impressions of these two sales careers and conclusions

$4.$ Names, titles, and company for each interviewee

Papers should be typed using $10$ pt Ariel font, single$-$spaced, with double spacing between paragraphs.