For anyone working in recruitment (but especially in an industry as fast-moving as media sales recruitment) you need to become very adept at keeping one eye on what the industry is currently doing, and one eye on where things are headed next. Things can change very quickly, so thinking that you are ‘on top of the...
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I’ve mentioned it before on these pages but with all the hoo-ha surrounding University tuition fees this year, it is something worth revisiting.
We run graduate group workshops every week here at Ascent Solutions (in fact I ran one this morning) where we invite recent graduates in to test their skills and...
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Anyone who was reading this blog while The Apprentice was on will know that I am not a big fan of the way ‘sales’ is portrayed by television – usually as something done by smarmy, oily chaps who make use of techniques that are painfully out of date.
My issue is that the ‘art’ of selling is that it isn’t purely...
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Nothing seems to start a debate in media sales more easily than the statement that ‘print is dead; the future is online’, but it is a viewpoint that has reared its head again this week with Centaur posting some solid figures after quite a major repositioning this year.
To suggest that print is dead is, of...
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