Question

Provide a list of three PROS and three CONs, from your perspective, of a career in professional selling? Offer a brief explanation.

Answer 1

Career in professional selling has both advantages and disadvantages to the person depending on what they expect from the job. It is a job where the person can meet people and need not do desk job all the time, the pay structure in this profession depends on the performance and hence the more a person performs the more they earn . It is a profession where there is a lot of scope to develop ourselves and there is much scope for career development. If we perform well and have good communication skills, we can automatically grow in this profession . It is a challenging profession where we can prove our capabilities.

The major problem with this profession is it is on field job and the person need to be competitive and capable to interact with people. Not many people will be good at interactions and communication which hinders their career growth. If the performance is not good the scope of development falls and also the income of the person decreases and hence the income is unstable . Another disadvantage of this profession is we will be responsible to answer the consumers and any fault in the product or cost will result in the dissatisfaction of customers which will have negative impact on our performance. It even has no particular timings which makes the job unpredictable.