What, Exactly, Is An Account Executive?
In a recent search I did for entry-level accounting jobs I found very few accounting jobs. However, I did find page after page of entry-level account executive positions. I don't really know what an account executive is. I have always thought that it was just a nice name for sales person. So I went on another little search. As it turns out, I was right. An account executive is just a sales person. It's funny how that word "executive" can make things sound so much more glamorous.
Again, I find that entry-level sales jobs are impossible to escape. They've found a word for sales--account executive--that interferes with another search for an entry-level job that isn't in sales.
This just goes to show that knowing the right keywords will help your online entry-level job search by saving you the time it takes to wade through all those creatively-worded sales positions.
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Sales person carries a lot of baggage. Somewhere in its history, it was found to be more lucrative to spice up the title with a bit of a euphemism. "Account executive" was born. There are many ways to describe a particular job function or title. It's a good idea to use several search terms and a thesaurus in order to find more and better results.