Sales and Marketing Job

[melvster]

I am currently 17 and have just completed my A.S Levels at Malbank College in Nantwich. My passion is cars and i even managed to secure work experience at JMH Ferrari and Porsche specialists in Holmes Chapel, i work there during my holidays cleaning and washing the cars which come in for a service. I have decided for my future career i want my job to revolve around fast cars. I wish to work for a specialists dealership such as TOP 555 cars or at Graypaul/Dick Lovett Ferrari in the sales and marketing sector. To gain a job at dealerships such as these, what qualificaions do i need? i currently study I.C.T, Electronics and Design Technology and also would i need to start at a company selling less powerful and cheaper cars such as Ford. Your answers will be appreciated.

Adam

[anonymous-user]

I would imagine they would ask for a good history of previous selling experience at a dealership like that. So maybe start off in a smaller or less prestigious dealership and work your way up.

Also I would imagine you would have to be quite a bit older to work as a sales person so they can insure you for test drives etc, as to be honest who would really trust a young person with a £150k car?

[okgo]

Previous history of selling an absolute. Even porcshe will ask for at least 3 years of selling a premium brand. I would imagine that above and beyond hard graft up the ranks, it's who you know not what.

[Stevenj214]

Your first port of call should be as senior a person you can speak to at your work experience.

[RW774]

My advice to you is to get to know your product better than anyone else, both technically and historicly.
Jobs are not in abundance only for experienced people,no matter what your scatter brained lecturers might say. Having a degree will make no difference to your future but your application/enthusiasm might. Don`t write off Ford either and don`t be a snob about it. Some of the best tech designers in the world worked for the blue oval.

[okgo]

RW774 said:

My advice to you is to get to know your product better than anyone else, both technically and historicly.
Jobs are not in abundance only for experienced people,no matter what your scatter brained lecturers might say. Having a degree will make no difference to your future but your application/enthusiasm might. Don`t write off Ford either and don`t be a snob about it. Some of the best tech designers in the world worked for the blue oval.

Doesn't make really make sense what you've said.

Get to know your product? What cars? Damn sure a Ford and a Ferrari are not the same and the only way he could know everything about the latter is by working with them every day.

OP I wanted a car sales job a couple of years ago and after taking advice from someone on here who sells what could only be described as supercars for a living he told me to send my CV out everywhere.

I sent it to Romans as it happens, and I was lucky enough (in my eyes) to get a letter back saying that they had no requirement for trainee staff but to come back to them later in my career after having sold another prestige brand for a period of time.

And in regards to the quoted post, knowing your product is important to a degree, but a good salesman who is personable wil always outsell a car geek who can tell you every stat under the sun.