Not all methods of selling and sales are direct with a salesperson trying to sell you a product. There are other methods of selling, including non-sales selling. The vast majority of jobs nowadays require some amount of selling. Whether it’s you selling yourself as a candidate in an interview or trying to try and get an extra day of PTO or a holiday off to your boss, there are plenty of indirect methods of sale that we as soon-to-be college graduates have to deal with on a pretty common basis in our workforce, even if we don’t have a sales role. I have seen these indirect sales roles in the jobs that I’ve had working retail and interning at a firm last summer.
BoweryJE22
Good stuff, there are countless settings where we are selling. Following your examples, indirect sales is simply a part of life. We have to remember that we are always selling ourselves.