My linkedIn account sends me emails sometimes that have general business information in them and things that are posted on the linkedIn website. The one day I decided to actually look through it, I found an article about why it is hard to fill sales jobs. The article talked about a lot of things we have talked about in class including the stereotypes salespeople get. There was also a video posted in the article that said that sales jobs are seen as risky, cut throat jobs. Our generation has lived through the recession and isn’t as willing to take risky sales jobs that are solely based on commission. Towards the end of the article, they stated that in 2011 101 schools were offering sales classes, while only 44 schools did in 2007. This means that sales is getting more of an emphasis in colleges and universities which should provide the market with more people willing to takes sales jobs. This class is exactly what other schools need to offer to help people get past the stereotypes of salespeople and willing to learn about the real opportunities of selling.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-its-so-hard-to-fill-sales-jobs-1423002730
Jake Botkin 
Katie Blendermann 
Collier Kaufman
Thank you for bringing up the very important link between sales and education! Like Entrepreneurship, I have often heard that sales is something you just do, not something you learn. This simply reinforces the stereotypes of salespeople as being “lesser professionals” that are less intelligent than other workers. However, I think education can make a key difference in taking salespeople from product-pushers to relationship-builders.