There are tons of sales offers that happen. B2B sales is notorious for this but it also happens in B2C.
@devilkingx2's job is a B2B sales job, which is quite challenging.
In a B2B sales context, I've received cold email pitches to my work email, my LinkedIn account, and get some phone calls. Phone calls are definitely a minority. I've never answered a sales pitch phone call. My sales pitches are mostly email and LinkedIn. I ignore everything.
In-person cold sales approaches are worse than phone calls. Truly disruptive. They can't be ignored unlike phone calls, junk-ish emails, and junk LinkedIn pitches. I can imagine the rejections on those to be brutal.
The idea to sell anything now is to use marketing to create demand and have the target customer pre-qualify themselves to you. Marketing starts the customer journey and may even complete it with a simpler product. Sales reps get more involved in the more difficult to sell products. Search engine marketing and social media marketing tactics can accomplish this. This is easier said than done. Old school ads, like radio/TV/print are more interruptive. In-person appearances, phone calls, and spammy type emails/LinkedIn messages are some of the most interruptive things out there.
I think the cold call is dead in business. I don't think the cold approach is dead in the mating environment, simply because demand induction is so much more difficult to achieve. Most men are not going to experience single women pre-qualifying themselves to him, even above average men on paper. While I'm not a supporter of spam approaching in a mating context, I am a supporter of wise and targeted in-person approaching. However, in-person approaching is a more difficult path than a well constructed social circle feeding leads.
I can identify. Interviewing for jobs stinks. I graduated from my MBA program in the 2007-08 school year. Things were already looking bad by the time the Fall 2007 semester hit, even though the worst of the 2008 crash didn't happen until September-October 2008. By Fall 2007, companies were already cutting back on hiring. I saw hiring freezes start to happen by Spring 2008. Graduating in 2008 was a traumatic experience. Interviewing for jobs in the late 2000s/early 2010s was not fun at all. It was an employer's market and job applicants were taking whatever was thrown their way.
The events of the late 2000s impacted my career development in a meaningful way.
So, not only did I graduate in the 2008 mess, I was also one of the first layoffs when the pandemic arrived in early 2020. I was spending 2020 interviewing for jobs. It wasn't a bad thing that I was one of the first layoffs as I was working for a subpar company that I had already been intending to leave. They pushed me out the door 3-6 months earlier than I would have wanted to leave under non-pandemic circumstances. I have rebounded from the early 2020 layoff. I have gotten a job. I make more money now, after adjusting for inflation, than I did in early 2020. I also work for a better company.
I've also never met anyone who is like me and was economically impacted by both The Great Recession and the pandemic.
Job interviews stink for white collar work.
