Hrm 531 Week 2 Position Paper

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Brandon Britton – Brandon is a professional candidate with a background in sales. He most recently worked for Pate’s Pool Service and Supply as a Weekly Service Manager. In this role, he was responsible for selling and up selling both products and services. This position ended this month as the business is seasonal and won’t pick up again until spring. Prior to this, Brandon worked for Leslie’s Pool Store as an Assistant Manager, once again still helping to drive sales in this role. Brandon also worked for State Farm. This was a sales job where he was making cold calls off of internet leads to sell insurance services and products. For almost 4 years Brandon worked for CitiFinancial. This position focused more on collections and setting up payment solutions for those that had defaulted on their …show more content…
He was cut from this position during a round of layoffs. Prior to CitiFinancial, Brandon had just relocated back to the Indianapolis area from Texas. He had taken on a position with Pools of Fun, and he continued to work that position on a part-time basis while he worked full time for CitiFinancial. His positions prior to this were out of state. Brandon had worked for AIG American General Finance and they relocated him to various different branches. While working for the Texas branch in 2008 the economy crashed and his branch closed down. He took on a temporary position with Randal Edward Design, before securing a sales job with Bankston Nissan. At this point in his career is when Brandon decided to relocate back to Indiana to be close to family. Brandon just kind of fell into the pool business and while he enjoys the industry he needs something that will offer him full-time work year round. He enjoys interacting with people and feels that he does well in sales. He is very interested

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