After Professor Sweet emphasized in Sales in the Startup, I was curious to see how many people think they can have a career without selling. I started to dig into each career that claimed they could have a career without selling and here’s what I came up with. I first researched “Careers that don’t require selling.”
My research revealed creative and technical field jobs such as software development, web design, graphic design, and data analysis.
BUSTED: As a software developer, you have to sell your skills to your customers to prove your knowledge in web applications, developer tools, mobile apps, and other software services.
If you work on web design, you have to sell to your company that your design is good and to the company that hires you to work on the website that you have knowledgeable skills.
Another field of work that came up in my research is Finance. Finance may seem like strictly numbers and analyzing financial data.
BUSTED: However, I learned from a professional in the finance and sales industry that he has to sell trust, knowledge, expertise, experience, and character to his potential clients.
Another career that was mentioned frequently is healthcare. For example, doctors, therapists, nurses, and surgeons are all individuals in the healthcare industry.
BUSTED: Like many careers people are involved and when there are people there needs to be trust. The only way to build trust with potential customers and other employees is to sell yourself to the customer. Patients have to be sold that their doctor, nurse, or surgeon has their best interest at hand and that there is not an asymmetry in knowledge between the healthcare specialist and the patient.
These careers are just a few examples of positions in the workforce that most individuals do not include sales or “selling” in the career description. However, from learning more about sales and what is important in selling all of these careers are a part of the sales equation.Everyone is in sales.
RMcIlwain
This is a very interesting topic; I have also been wondering about these questions. I think this is a very interesting thing to take a look at. When you mentioned healthcare workers being salespeople at first, I was confused and wondered how they could, but by reading the definition it all made sense. It is crazy how many people do have to sell in their career when you would think that career has nothing to do with selling.