Are you sold on this idea?
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MAY WE, through your columns seek support for a proposal designed to aid young schoolleavers?
Over two million people are employed in one aspect or another of selling. Yet, because no specific academic qualification is necessary for entering the profession, limited information is available to career advisers when asked for details by pending school leavers.
Selling, vital to industry and commerce, is in fact one of the few remaining areas in business where both the non-academic as well as the qualified person can, through expertise. endeavour and enterprise, make a positive contribution and in return enjoy job satisfaction and reward, To provide the depth of information that so many youngesters seek and which career officers would be happy to pass on, we believe that amongst the thousands of recently retired