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阿芙顿•雅各布森 • 所属公司：车美仕 • 最佳雇主公司排名：第54位 • 职位：销售经理 • 年龄：26岁 2010年大学毕业前，雅各布森一直在为找工作而奔忙。因为拥有金融服务学位，她本来的目标是去金融公司当个咨询师。她找了好一阵都没有结果，于是决定先找个实习岗位——就是那种发薪的——以便在她继续为了理想工作奔走时能应付一下开销。 后来，她在父亲的催促下上网申请了一份车美仕（CarMax）营业部的工作，工作地点在她老家——俄亥俄州代顿市。她说：“说心里话，我就觉得这份工作只是个跳板而已。”结果她五天后就被录用了。 尽管她申请的是营业厅的岗位，但一个销售经理考虑到她以前暑假时卖彩票和冷饮的经验，就说服她试试销售顾问这个职位。 雅各布森干了大概六个月的销售顾问后就被提拔为销售指导，专门负责培训新员工。一年多后，她又被提为销售经理培训生，到了2012年8月，她终于成了销售经理，也就是说她开始负责管理其他销售顾问了。 三年多期间经过三次提拔后，这份实习工作已经成了她想毕生从事的职业。她说，本来立志进入金融服务业也是想帮助更多人，但现在这份工作是帮助客户选车并制订合适的购买计划，它已经实现了这一点。 |
Afton Jacobson • Company: CarMax • Best Companies rank: 54 • Role: Sales Manager • Age: 26 Just prior to graduating college in 2010, Jacobson was looking for a job. With a degree in financial services, her goal was to land a gig as an advisor at a financial firm. As the hunt grew fruitless, she decided she'd look for an interim position -- one with benefits -- to pay the bills as she continued her search for her dream role. At the urging of her dad, she applied online to a business office opening at CarMax in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. "Mentally, I was considering it a stepping stone," says Jacobson. She had a job offer within five days. Though she applied for a business office position, a sales manager convinced Jacobson into taking a sales consultant role, given her prior experience at a summer job selling pools and spas. About six months after starting as a sales consultant, Jacobson was promoted to a sales mentor, a job that allowed her to help train new hires. A little more than a year later she became a sales-manager-in-training, and in August 2012 she graduated to the sales manager title, which means she oversees other sales consultants. More than three years and three promotions later, her interim job has turned into the career she'd always wanted. Jacobson's goal to be in financial services was based on her desire to help people, and that's what she's doing now, she says, by helping customers find the right vehicle and appropriate payment plan. |
