Best Sales Certification Courses To Better Your Career

I am sure you will be looking to grow in your career and get good jobs as well. With the current competitive job market in order for you to achieve this, you need to set yourself apart from other job seekers.
This can only be done by pursuing additional professional certificate courses. Taking extra courses that build your soft and hard skills is a great way to ensure you continue to grow in your career and it also gives you an advantage when it comes to job search.
For sales professionals, when it’s time to move on to the next phase of your career, sales figures alone won’t win over employers. Even though recruiters do take your figures into account, they want to see more substantial operations experience for senior sales executive or management positions.
In addition to on-the-job experience, professional certifications can help you stand out especially among a group of candidates with similar experience.
There are organisations such as the Marketing Society Of Kenya that offer various certification courses for both experienced and inexperienced professionals.
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Some Examples Of Sales Certification Courses You Can Pursue

1. Practitioners Certificate/Diploma/Degree in marketing
These courses are ideal for people who are already practicing sales and marketing professionals with a few years experience and undergraduate certifications in sales and marketing.
2. Executive Diploma in Sales and Marketing
This is basically a continuation from the above but focuses on people who want to go into sales and marketing managerial positions.
They also offer short courses designed for someone looking to grow their knowledge and skills in a specific area of Marketing or related subject. For example, E-marketing, Territory planning and management, Key Account management, Digital Marketing among others.
Another great way to boost your chances of landing a great job or advancing your career is to focus on your soft skills. This is because sales and marketing is a people based industry and as such your communication, presentation, customer service skills need to be great for you to succeed.
Courses such as the public speaking one being offered by Corporate Staffing will help you build your confidence when it comes to pitching products and services to clients. This will then enable you to sell more and in turn grow your career.
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What Are The Benefits of Pursuing Short Professional Courses?

1. Improves your CV
Alongside your several years of experience, specific professional courses that are offered by professional bodies can be a plus to your CV. This is because such professional bodies have such certifications in your area of specialization.
Most employers would instead look for candidates who have additional professional courses.
2. Refreshing Your knowledge
Are you feeling a little rusty at your five-year job? Probably new office software was introduced recently and you can hardly work with it. This is the right time to take certification courses.  If not going to class, attending events or seminars can help you stay up-to-date on the knowledge acquired during your early years of education and the hands-on skills you’ve gained on the job.
3. Learn Something New
This is obviously a learning opportunity for you and continuous growth and learning is an important part of career growth.
Whether you’re looking for a new role or you want to grow your current position, this step will give you a competitive edge.
Short Certification courses enable you to upgrade your current understanding of the industry you are in. Quickly changing world of information technology, for example, can bring with it new challenges.
4. Chance To Network
Attending certification classes can be a great way to meet other people in your industry who can then become very important networks to have.
Branching out and meeting new professionals’ exposes you to new ideas and gives the opportunity to meet others who may be able to help your career in the future by informing you of available positions and recommending you.
Short courses in Kenya are becoming somewhat mandatory if you want to set yourself apart from others in your profession. You can no longer just easily get a job with your degree or diploma and promotions aren’t just landed by getting a masters degree.
If you would like professional guidance on career growth kindly email training@corporatestaffing.co.ke