Justin Cook, a sales trainer from Orlando, Florida, flies nearly every week in the mid-Atlantic or the Southeast.

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Within four years the procedure took off, and Randall got a sales trainer position with the firm in Boston.

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"Years of experience are a great gauge, though interviewers had to see my highlighted accomplishments to even entertain me, " says Palmer, a life coach and certified sales and leadership trainer.

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He had worked up from a sales member on the phone to a trainer, but then his career stalled.

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The owner of Baltimore-based It Works Learning Center, trainer of nursing assistants, Lapides is also the head of sales, operations and recruiting.

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