-: First and foremost you probably want
to take the classes that might pertain.
So take some sales courses, obviously.
Have a...
Kinda get in your mindset that you're getting ready
to go from student to professional.
So I always tell people this when they start talking
to me cause I've had to sit in on a couple interviews
and do a little background on people,
so clean up your social media if at all possible.
Clean that up.
Have something like a LinkedIn page,
have a little portfolio if you're getting
into something like let's say you want
to do something that's...
You created a design for a ticket
that you want to try to sell.
Have that on you.
Always be reaching out.
Always be looking,
research the companies that
actually do that you want to do
and just plug away, plug away, plug away
cause they're not gonna know who you are.
They're not gonna come find you.
I think a lot of it is learned over time,
especially for me cause I didn't start
off wanting to be in sales.
I started off wanting to be a teacher,
and then I wanted to go into IT
and I realized once I started getting
into the guts of routers it's like this is boring.
I need to be with people,
so then you start honing in all those
little interpersonal skills and along the way
you're gonna trip up.
You're gonna say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
You're gonna not remember somebodies name
when you should remember their name.
You're gonna not have researched
a particular client like you really should've
and that I'm telling you this from personal experience
I mean this has happened to me.
And then you quickly learn that
okay I need to be better at this.
I need to be better at that.
Reading books is fine, and finding a mentor is even better.
Somebody either within the company
that you're working with
or somebody else like a program here at Ball State.
Just try to find somebody that's done what you wanna do
or is doing what you wanna do,
and just kinda pick their brain a little bit.