Where do We Find Our Graduates?
August 28, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
ProGrad recently held another assessment day in Sydney. The 40 recent university candidates were invited due to their success on a telephone interview held the week before. ProGrad recieves over 500 applications each week in Sydney and Melbourne from graduates who are looking to get into a business to business sales career. So how do we find our superstar graduates and how do people become aware of what ProGrad do? The team at ProGrad aim to market and spread the word in a number of ways.
Firstly, we post each of our current job opportunities across internet job sites including mycareer, careerone, seek and graduatejobs. ProGrad also contacts universities, graduate fairs and career fairs with an aim of speaking to candidates that are near the completion of their degree.
ProGrad also aims at informing graduates with the use of social media including our mini websites, Facebook page, Flickr page and Twitter.
If you are interested in becoming a ProGrad graduate, please call us directly on 02 8235 8300 or visit ProGrads main webpage at www.prograd.com.au
New and Improved ProGrad Website!
August 26, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
ProGrad is a unique organisation that offers university graduates the chance to get their foot in the door with a successful organisation and begin a prosperous career. ProGrad receives hundreds of applications online each week and uses a vigorous selection procedure to select only the top 4% of graduates to make it through the process.
The team at ProGrad is excited to have their new website up and running with the addition of new pictures, updated case studies and recent ProGrad news. In the near future we plan to have uploaded some short video clips to give both graduates and employers a greater understanding about what is involved in our assessment days.
ProGrad have also recent joined Twitter, Flickr and Facebook which would urge anyone interested in ProGrads services to jump online and check it out!
Please call ProGrad’s Sydney office on 02 8235 8300 to speak to us directly or visit ProGrads new website at www.prograd.com.au
What is Business to Business Sales?
August 25, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
ProGrad specializes in assessing, placing and training graduates into companies within high end business to business sales roles. ProGrad speak to hundreds of graduates each week and often find many graduates don’t know what a sales role involves.
ProGrad currently has a number of fantastic business to business sales opportunities which involve contacting people, either face to face or on the phone, campaign management, increasing company awareness searching for new business opportunities, generating new client base, attending business meetings, managing existing accounts and coming up with strategies to improve the overall business requirements.
ProGrad believes that graduates who possess certain traits can be trained and developed to be successful business people. There are many benefits for graduates looking to work in sales including very quick progression, early recognition and rewards and incentives.
If you are a recent university graduate looking for a fantastic graduate opportunity, please call ProGrad directly on 02 8235 8300 or for more detailed information on ProGrad’s services please visit the ProGrad website on www.prograd.com.au
ProGrad recruiting in NSW, VIC, QLD and WA
August 24, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
We’re currently calling all Graduates in NSW, VIC, QLD and WA! if you’ve recently graduated and you’re looking for a graduate career opportunity, please contact ProGrad now on 02 8235 8300.
ProGrad is an assessment, placement and training company and we specialise in working with recent graduates looking to kick start their graduate career. We do work across a variety of industries such as FMCG, IT, Media and Finance.
If you’d like to hear more, please contact the ProGrad team on 02 8235 8300.
We look forward to hearing from you.
ProGrad - on the hunt for case studies!
August 24, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
Its that time again, when ProGrad are looking to update their case studies online. ProGrad are keen to speak to ProGrad graduates who have recently been placed and are looking to share their story with others.
If you have been placed by ProGrad and would like to share your story with us, please contact the ProGrad team on 02 8235 8300, we’d love to hear from you.
ProGrad are a specialised graduate recruitment company, working across a variety of industries - specifically within the B2B sales roles. For more information, please view our website www.prograd.com.au
Graduate Case Study: Richard
August 13, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
prograd and dialogue success story
Richard was originally born in South Africa. He moved to New Zealand with his family when he was young and attended school and university there. Before applying to ProGrad Richard had worked for 2 years in a corporate sales role for an online accommodation company in Queensland.
After applying for a ProGrad role online, Richard was taken through a telephone interview and invited to attend a Sydney assessment day. “It was pretty nerve racking but is a good introduction to performing under pressure in a business environment.” Richard, ProGrad Graduate.
Richard was a stand out candidate at the assessment day and was quickly sent out to a number of job interviews with ProGrad client partners. “ I was offered 2 roles but accepted the Dialogue role as it had more potential and was more face-to-face.”
Richard joined the sales team at Dialogue, a telecommunications organisation that specializes in mobile advertising, billing and business solutions. His role there is to prospect new leads, cold call, set appointments and close business deals.
Richard has returned to the ProGrad offices 3 times in the past 8 months to attend training courses to assist him in becoming successful within his role. When asked his advice for other graduates thinking of applying to ProGrad, Richard responded” there is no better way to begin your career.”
If you are interested in hearing more about ProGrad’s training courses, please call us directly on 02 8235 8300 or visit ProGrad’s main webpage at www.prograd.com.au
ProGrad Module 3: Negotiation Skills
August 12, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
ProGrad is an assessment, placement and training centre that assists university graduates in finding roles within business to business sales departments. ProGrad facilitates 4 training courses throughout their graduates first year of employment. Module 1 is An Introduction to Professional Sales and Marketing, Module 2 is based on SPIN Selling, Module 3 focuses on Negotiation Skills and Module 4 is aimed to educate the graduates on Key Account Management.
A recent ProGrad module 3 course was held in Sydney. The following are some feedback and comments left by graduates.
“I can directly apply this training course to my role. The content and delivery was fantastic. Role plays definitely helped to apply the theory.” Jessica, ProGrad Graduate.
“The negotiation training was superb. This is a course relevant to all areas of work and life. I particularly enjoyed the role play activities. John, the trainer is an excellent teacher. The insightful ‘real world’ examples tied in very well to the course.” Jonathon, ProGrad Graduate.
If you are a recent graduate who is looking to start your career or undertake in ProGrads training courses, please call the ProGrad management team on 02 8235 8300 or visit the ProGrad website at www.prograd.com.au
Graduates Training Feedback
August 7, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
ProGrad is an assessment, placement and training centre that aims at assisting recent university graduates in securing a full time position within a fast growing international company. Once we place graduates into client partner companies of ours, we invite them back to attend 4 training courses in their first year of employment.
ProGrad Module 1: An Introduction to Professional Sales and Marketing is a 3 day course that is run to assist graduates in learning the business basics such as time management, goal setting and how to build a strong pipeline.
Below are some comments that were left by Sydney ProGrad graduates who attend the Module 1 course in July.
“Kingsley is an engaging and extremely likeable speaker. The course gave me a clearer sense of understanding and also actually really motivated me to set achievable and measurable career related goals.” David, ProGrad Graduate.
“The trainer made it easy to participate and very engaging. Excellent use of real life credible examples made it really interesting.” Jess, ProGrad Graduate
“The workshop was very much applied to the business world and the examples used were very beneficial. I found the course overall to be very enjoyable and memorable.” Lucas, ProGrad Graduate
Here at ProGrad the more feedback we receive the better! If you have recently been through a ProGrad training course, please feel free to let us know what you thought of the course by calling the ProGrad Graduate Management team in Sydney on 02 8235 8300.
If you are interested in attending a ProGrad training course, please visit our website for more information at www.prograd.com.au
It Can’t Hurt Being Open Minded…
August 3, 2009 by ProGrad · Leave a Comment
Here at ProGrad we speak to hundreds of graduates each week that are looking to kick start their career. One of the major issues we are faced with is graduates who come to us with very specific requirements about what kind of role they are looking for.
I recently spoke to a graduate who only wanted to work in Sydney’s CBD and who wanted to work for a large Media organisation. She was very particular about the kind of company she wanted to work in and therefore missed out on hearing about a lot of exciting opportunities that she would have been very suitable for.
The ProGrad graduate team recommends any graduate looking for a full time position to be as open as possible in their search and focus on getting a role within a organisation that can help them learn and develop as much as possible.
If you are a recent graduate who is looking to start your career, please call the ProGrad management team on 02 8235 8300 or visit our website at www.prograd.com.au