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Advertising sales job description

As an advertising or media sales representative, you'll be working for an employer in the media industry, such as a newspaper or magazine publisher, or a radio or TV station.

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Fancy a career in the media but unsure what you'd be doing? Online editor and features writer, Chris Cragg talks us through a typical working day, the traits you need and meeting Stephen Fry...

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Our three biggest sectors for jobs are sales, engineering / manufacturing and IT.
We had 7,274 jobs in Yorkshire last month.
The average cost of living for a single person is £13,400.
The average commuting time for workers in the UK is 45 minutes.
The ideal CV is no more than 2 pages long.
The ideal cover letter is between 250 and 300 words long.
We had 8,730 jobs in the West Midlands last month.
British employees work an average of 31.9 hours per week.
The average cost of living for a family of four is £19,240.
Recruiters search our CV database 280,000 times every month.
UK workers spend an average of five years in a job.
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We had 7,714 accountancy jobs last month.
We had 20,490 sales jobs last month.