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Khevna Shah is the head of human resources at Coverfox Insurance. She has 14 years of experience in human resources across industries like manufacturing, banking & financial services and insurance. Her expertise includes talent acquisition, retention, employee engagement and developing a performance focussed culture.
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Asked by Anonymous - Jun 13, 2023Hindi
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HI khevna, Currently I am looking for job opportunities. My expertise is in Operations, Sales Coordination & Customer Service. I am observing that whenever I go for an interview, the HOD who interviews me suggests I take up a hardcore sales job. I am not adept at sales. One of my previous organizations forcefully put me into sales & I started feeling discomfort & pressure so much so that I had to even counter sleepless nights. Currently, I am 45 & there are almost no takers for me & the opportunities are far & few. I am fine to even start a business but I do not have any economically viable business ideas at this point in time. Request your recommendations.

Ans: Considering your expertise is not Sales, being pushed into Sales could obviously get uncomfortable for you.
However, literally every job today does have a flavour of Sales in it. Try and figure what part of a Sales job role is particularly uncomfortable and what are the aspects that you can work with...

Sales has different types as well from cold calling, tele sales to retail sales to B2B sales. You may want to introspect and find if there is a part of sales that works for you.

In case you are sure you don't want Sales at all.. identify companies that are strong in their operations and focussed on service orientation instead of hard core sales and target their career sites or apply to them specifically using LinkedIn, Job Portals, or their web sites.

Hope this helps.
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Hi.

Your question has so many ‘I can't’ statements that you have yourself ruled out many feasible options.

Please remember that, in the job market, there are many more qualified people than there are decent jobs. So you will certainly need to change your mindset and be flexible to adapt and learn new skill sets.

Even Sachin Tendulkar had to adapt to T-20 to play the IPL!

Approach the situation with a positive mindset and things will work out for you.

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