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.