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Whether you are a first time visitor or know us well, welcome to the round8 website. You can register quickly and easily on our on-line database or why not call us today?
At round8 we know that delivering for our clients means offering our candidates the best service in London. We start by trying to really understand what’s important to you.
You will be dealing with a consultant who prides him or herself on their knowledge about their clients and the specific requirements of each brief.
We’re happy to invest time in exploring your career options with you and will only put you forward for those roles we both agree are right for you. That way we get it right first time more often and have happy clients and candidates.
round8 has an unbeatable selection of jobs whatever level of experience you have or sector you’d like to work in.
Our portfolio of accounts is second to none and growing all the time but we like to measure our success by satisfied clients who come back to us again and again.
So, don’t put your future on hold any longer… take the first step and get in touch today or have a look at some of the vacancies we’re currently displaying on this site.
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Media can offer people a dynamic, fun and highly lucrative career, but it is not for everyone. round8 was founded by people who were at one stage in your position – trawling through job ads wondering what career to choose. We understand that it is hard to decide which direction to take, particularly when its difficult to find out what each industry really offers in practice.
To help you decide if media sales is a career that could give you what you want, we have prepared a 'rough guide' to the market. We hope you find it useful!
To download our Rough Guide as a printable PDF click here
You could be selling advertising space within magazines, newspapers, on websites, outdoor advertising (taxi/tube/billboard/buses), or broadcasting (radio/TV) to companies who want to promote their products, services or image.
Typically the radio and TV sectors employ trainees in a sales support capacity, then move them into frontline sales when they have learnt the ropes.
In most other sectors, they start you in sales straight away.
Magazine publishing is by far the biggest media sector (the UK alone produces over 9000 titles), so this is where most people start their careers. You would normally start selling Classified (the stuff at the back of magazines and newspapers) or recruitment advertising.
If you start your career in Outdoor or Broadcasting you will start in a Sales Support/Sales Co-ordinator position before moving into a sales role. These roles do not involve any telesales although the training and development into a fully-fledged face-to-face Sales Executive takes longer than in publishing.
If you want the quiet life, this is not the best career option. All sales environments can be fast and pressured. There are deadlines to meet and sales targets to achieve. The average age in most telesales departments is 24.
Media is an enormous market that covers Trade, Consumer and National Press, TV, Radio, Outdoor Advertising and the Internet. The skills you will gain as a telesales person are transferable to all these sectors.
The standard career route in magazine or newspaper publishing is to spend 6 -18 months in telesales, then become an account manager selling face-to-face to larger clients, and then move on to a management role.
If you start off in a sales support role in TV, radio or outdoor you may take about 12-18 months to become a sales executive. At that point you should start to sell face-to-face to larger brands and their advertising agencies.
You do not need any sales experience to join at graduate entry level. All our clients offer structured, comprehensive development programs for their staff. These usually include on-the-job training by your manager, specialist in-house courses and training ran by external companies.
You will not be 'cold-calling' all day every day. Jobs like this do exist, but those companies don't emply companies like us to recruit for them (in fact they rarely use agencies at all).
All the magazines and newspapers we recruit for have existing client bases that will already be aware of your publication. You will typically be asked to manage existing accounts and also develop new business.
As well as inheriting a client base, you may be asked to use your own creativity to source sales leads and approach companies who have never advertised in your magazine before.
Within the Outdoor/Broadcasting industries you will help sales teams research and put sales pitches together, liaise with clients before and after they have bought the space and get involved in general sales administration. Generally speaking, no two days are the same in this kind of work.
Media can be a highly paid profession.
Starting salaries for graduates vary, but typically you can expect to earn around £22,000 including commision in your first year.
There is substantial scope to earn a lot more the further up the ladder you go.
Commission is normally paid on achievement of monthly and quarterly targets. Our clients invest a lot of money finding you and training you up. They want the best people to stay with them and climb the promotional ladder, so it is in their interests to incentivise you. This means that those salespeople who work to their potential normally earn their commission.
At this level, our clients want you to demonstrate two key things:
• that you have sales potential.
• that you can fit into their team
Some recruitment consultancies publish lists of qualities that they ask their candidates to mention in interviews - like determination, communicative skills and the ability to work in a team.
Of course, these skills (and many others) are essential in any sales role, but at round8 we believe that the key to you finding the right job lies in you doing some soul searching - and coming up with a list of qualities that you genuinely possess You don't have to make every answer entirely original, but it is important that you come across as being credible to the interviewer - and that means putting some thought into your application.
To download our Rough Guide as a printable PDF click here
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