JobsGroup.net Sales Director and Sales Manager Achieve Highest ISMM Qualification

April 26, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
JobsGroup.net, the UK's largest independent online recruitment network, is pleased to announce Craig Bines, Sales Director, and Gary Lightfoot, Sales Manager, have both achieved the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM) Level 5.

Craig and Gary embarked on ISMM Level 5 Diploma in Strategic Sales – Sales Management as part of the JobsGroup.net Sales Academy, which aims to provide lifelong learning opportunities to employees and high standards of customer care and quality management through ongoing training.

Mark Hepworth, Managing Director of JobsGroup.net, comments, "We are looking to recruit an additional sixteen new people to our sales team, all of which will be enrolled into the JobsGroup.net Sales Academy and given the opportunity to progress through the ISMM Levels as Craig and Gary have done so effectively over the years."

Launched in 2000, JobsGroup.net is currently nominated in two categories at the National Business Awards – North West: The AXA Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year Award and The Orange Best Use of Technology in Business Award. JobsGroup.net also recently won the Best Technical Innovation Award at the Onrec Awards 2007.

JobsGroup.net operates ten award-winning niche online recruitment websites in the UK: JustEngineers.net; JustRail.net; JustConstruction.net; JustUtilities.net; Just4Aviation.net; DefenceJobs.com; Just4Finance.net; JustSalesandMarketing.net; Just4Executives.net; and Just4Graduates.net. In January 2006 JobsGroup.net launched a free monthly newspaper, JUST TECHNICAL jobs, sent to over 45,000 candidates. In September, JobsGroup.net launched a new site based in Sydney, Australia: JustEngineers.com.au.

JobsGroup.net clients include some of the UK’s best known companies, including Atkins, Alfred McAlpine, Amec, Arup, Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Boeing, BSkyB, Bupa, Carillion, EDF Energy, E.ON, GCHQ, Greggs, Jacobs, Lloyds TSB, Highways Agency, MI5, Ministry of Defence, Mouchel Parkman, National Grid, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Parsons Brinckerhoff and Siemens.

JobsGroup.net is unique because it combines the reach of generalist jobsites with the industry expertise of niche job boards, with over 360,000 unique visitors a month.

Notes to Editors

For more information and media enquiries please contact: Guy Cookson, Marketing and Communications Manager T: 01524 428 224 E: guy.cookson@jobsgroup.net JobsGroup.net, York House, 76-78 Lancaster Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4 5QN, United Kingdom.