Sales jobs 'will still be affected after the upturn'

People looking for sales jobs may not find any immediate improvement in the availability of positions even when the recovery begins, it has been suggested.

Although many people will be looking for sales jobs over the months ahead as the recession bottoms out, they have been warned to be patient because it is unlikely that the market will see a flood of new employment opportunities.

According to Dr John Philpott, chief economist and public policy director for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), it could be the case that businesses will continue to make people in all sectors redundant even after the recovery starts because the upturn may not be as quick as some had hoped.

"There have been a lot of efforts to hold onto workers and that's partly due to the fact that the whole nation realises they are going through tough times, but they are hoping that things will prove relatively quickly," he said.

"If the improvement is modest then they may find that they still have to make job cuts in the future over the course of the next year or so," Dr Philpott added.

A recent survey from the CIPD has shown that the level of HR professionals seeking advice on how to make staff redundant barely changed between the first and second quarters of 2009.

However, recent figures from the British Chambers of Commerce suggest that the worst of the recession is now over, meaning there's potential for new sales jobs to be created as firms begin to look towards the upturn.

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Filed: 07-07-2009