Sales professionals achieve life long ambitions finds salestarget.co.uk

One third of sales professionals have achieved a life long ambition in the past year, revealed a survey by the sales specialist jobsite salestarget.co.uk. Sales professionals lived up to their go getting stereotype by actively achieving dreams such as setting up their own business, publishing their writing, and travelling to distant climes. However despite these undeniable success stories only 50% of all respondents said they were happy with what they had accomplished in both their work and personal life.

ëWe know from our market research that sales professionals are determined to succeed in the workplace and are used to hitting targetsí said Katy West, Marketing Executive for salestarget.co.uk. ëThis survey confirmed that complacency is not a word in the vocabulary of a sales professional in any area of their lifeí. ëFrom giving up smoking and biting nails to losing substantial amounts of weight our jobseekers have achieved it all in the past yearí.

The survey was run to commemorate the first birthday of salestarget.co.uk and its similarly big achievements over the past year. Salestarget.co.uk was an immediate success, becoming market leader in the sales specialist jobsite marketplace within two weeks of launch*. Since then over 300,000 job applications have been made through the site, the candidate database has exceeded 30,000.and over 9,000 professionals sales vacancies are regularly advertised.

ëThis showsí, says Katy, ëthat if sales professionals are looking for a jobsite which will deliver on its promises and help them achieve their career ambitions then salestarget.co.uk is the place to go!í

*According to Hitwise Chart of Daily Market Share in ëSales Job Boardí Market, based on Visits, June-July 2005. Other monitored websites were SimplySalesJobs.co.uk, JustSalesandMarketing.net and SalesVacancies.com.

For further information on the survey and its results please contact Katy West on 0207 769 9147 or katy.west@totaljobsgroup.com