Free sales training for a career in hotel sales and catering

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 5, 2010 -- You can get free sales training for a career in hotel sales and catering.

Hotel sales jobs offer great surroundings to work in, offer rapid advancement, great food, and you can live in just about any city or location in the world.

ahla.com and aprinda.com are good resources for free sales training. Aprinda.com has free courses and offers a 3 minute video on what a career in hotel sales entails.

The best thing about hotel sales is that most people don't know they exist. Most people don't know that each hotel has from 1-7 or more sales executive positions available.

Hotels need sales managers to sell groups and conventions, catering facilities, IBT markets, amenities and services.

You don't need a college degree, just some inside hotel knowledge so you can go to the interview and demonstrate you understand the hospitality business. Don't go the interview thinking you can use your previous sales knowledge to land the job, you really have to understand the hotel first. Do your homework and learn about the SMERFE markets, demand generators, revpar, evaluating good versus bad business techniques, and where to land the business.

Take the free training at ahla.com and aprinda.com and prepare for the interview. Hotels don't want to spend endless hours training you, but they like people that understand the business and have a passion for sales.

Once you are ready to interview, go to www.hcareers.com or indeed.com, or even hospitalityonline.com and do a search for hotel sales manager jobs.

Hotels have great jobs that most people do not even know about. It's a great business and considered a receptive sale where people like hearing about your product and services.

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