KSU business students win top awards in national collegiate competition
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Kennesaw State University students swept one of the top collegiate sales competitions in the nation earlier this month when two of its students took first and second places in a sales role-playing challenge.
Eric Tenuto and Alex Brown (both seniors majoring in professional sales at the Coles College of Business) placed first and second, respectively, in the sales call role-play competition at the 2009 Russ Berrie Institute National Sales Challenge at William Patterson University in Wayne, N.J., Nov. 5-7. Nearly 50 students from 20 colleges -- including Florida State, Western Michigan and Ball State universities -- participated in the sales competition. In the sales call role-play, students engage in a 15 minute role-play with a business executive and are judged on various aspects of the sales call.
"This was a perfect example of how preparation and perspiration lead to success," said Gary Selden, associate professor of marketing and professional sales at the Coles College of Business and associate director of the college's Center for Professional Selling. "They all prepared and worked very hard for this. Their hard work paid off with a solid victory in the competition, and will lead to bigger and better job offers in their future."
KSU's Coles College of Business has a nationally recognized sales program and hosts the annual National Collegiate Sales Competition, the largest collegiate sales competition in the U.S.
