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Trying to get out of sales. Suggestions


I posted my resume 3 weeks ago, and I am only receiving responses for sales positions.  I am looking to get an analyst position, but I've had no luck.  Any suggestions on my resume?

By the way, it's in plain text.

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Ambitious achiever with proven accomplishments in sales and marketing. Highly-focused decision maker with strong leadership, administrative, communication, interpersonal, organizational, and planning skills.  Quick study with desire for continued learning and advancement. First in family history to earn college degree. Computer literate with working knowledge of MS Office applications, Windows, and the Internet.  Bilingual: English-Spanish.  Other strengths include:

 

Leadership,

 Coaching & Training, Prioritization & Time Management, Revenue & Profit Growth, Quality Assurance, Customer Relations, Management, Product Knowledge, Motivation, and Team Building

 

 

EDUCATION

M.B.A, 2006, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, TX

GPA 3.7/4.0 Scale

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Business Economics, 2000,

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, TX

GPA 3.6/4.0 Scale (While working through academic career to pay tuition and living expenses.)

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

 

CORPORATE ACCUNT EXECUTIVE II, 2006- Present

 

Responsible for utilizing advanced business selling techniques to obtain desired results in subscriber growth, data penetration and revenue targets as well as ensuring high quality customer relations and retention.

 

Responsibilities include: Consistently meet revenue and unit targets. Utilize solution selling techniques to maximize the business relationship and opportunity with prospects within a defined geographic territory and account list. Responsible for new business and account penetration with companies with greater than 50

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Wooow, I'm honestly impressed with your cv. It seems to me you have managed to display your achievements just right, which is very very good.
If you posted it a while ago and you're receiving only sales opportunities, it means that ythere is something in there which disables it from being taken into consideration for an accountant position.

 

Section of post does not conform with Monster TOU

You need to add an objective to your resume indicating you're looking to be an analyst (doing what? accounting? systems analyst? - be specific).

This will help cut down on getting sales position inquiries and bring you contacts for an analyst position (also does your resume title say you're looking for an analyst position?).

Good luck.

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