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Gilbert E Wins $70,000 Sales and Marketing Specialist Position with Leading CPA Firm in Midwest-Pleased With Opportunity, Compensation, Avoids Relocation-Praises Campaign Manager-Finds Website, Ongoing Services Helpful

Title: Sales and Marketing Specialist
Field/Industry: Financial Services/CPA Firm
Compensation: $70,000 base

 Reporting to the Director of Sales and Marketing, Gil will be providing sales training, counseling and coaching for CPA partners, managers and directors. He points out that these are skills most CPAs are not familiar or comfortable with, which makes it a challenge, and he had this to say about why he accepted this opportunity:

     "The compensation is within my expectations, but most importantly it is in a community where I choose to live, i.e., quality of life reasons. The position calls for skills and activities that I am skilled in, and have deliberately sought out in a new position."

 Gil had special praise for his SET Campaign Manager, Dennis S:

     "Dennis provided good orientation about identifying my strengths and 'soft' areas. His counsel on interviewing was invaluable, since I have had little experience in selling myself, and his personal support during this emotionally stressful process cannot be emphasized enough."

 Gil used the website actively for reviewing openings and strategies for interviewing and negotiating. He also felt that the guidance he got on a communication strategy was very effective, including ways to handle things that concerned him. He considered the Universal Resume and the marketing plan for developing interviews very helpful, as well as the ongoing services from all members of his SET team.