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How would you say it?
 

MSFhopeful's picture
(Baboon, 139
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 10:28am

I'm trying to figure out how to phrase something on my resume in an appropriate way. What I did was search for the firm's competitors online, finagle out their client lists from their website, then get all the relevant contact information for the sales team to contact. I'd like to put it as "sourcing" somehow but I can't figure out a good way. Any suggestions?

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UFOinsider's picture

You can spin this a bunch of

O
(Human, 10,349
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 11:28am

You can spin this a bunch of ways:
1. Marketing research
2. Marketing resource developement
3. Lead Generation
4. Marketing Trend Analysis
5. Trend Analysis
6. Industry Targeting

The list is almost endless, just get creative without lying: ethics are important. My first internship was looking up phone numbers for a sales group to call [that's right, there's something lower in status than cold calling], and they spun the job as 'market research analyst' when I applied, so I stuck that on the resume. This actually got me into an ER internship.....

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cphbravo96's picture

Corporate espionage?? Regards

PE
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 12:35pm

Corporate espionage??

Regards

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- Ronald Reagan

UFOinsider's picture

hmmm, yeah, you might want to

O
(Human, 10,349
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 1:04pm

hmmm, yeah, you might want to examine the nature of your 'finagaling'. I'm curious what method you used.....

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MSFhopeful's picture

So would -Conducted marketing

(Baboon, 139
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 4:23pm

So would

-Conducted marketing research to generate industry specific targets for sales team

sound okay? it looks like we were doing about the same thing

"The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot where to go.”
-Bogie

cphbravo96's picture

MSFhopeful wrote: So

PE
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 6:03pm
MSFhopeful:

So would

-Conducted marketing research to generate industry specific targets for sales team

sound okay? it looks like we were doing about the same thing

I'm certainly no resume genius, so take my approval with a grain of salt, but that sounds pretty good. The only thing you might want to consider adding is some sort of 'result'. Again, I'm no master, but often times people don't want to read just what you did, but how what you did had a positive impact...so essentially quantifying what you did. So something like, "...leading to 23 new clients" or "...increasing AUM by $3mm" or something along those lines that shows you were adding value. Good luck.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
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+1's Thanks for the advice

(Baboon, 139
 
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 on 2/9/11 at 11:59pm

+1's

Thanks for the advice

"The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot where to go.”
-Bogie

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