What Industrial Distribution Is Not

What is Industrial Distribution?

Industrial Distributors

• Exist in all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces

• Number over 80,000 in the U.S.

• Will employ over 2,110,000 by 2020

Is Someone You Know the Right Person for the Job?

• If they are interested in how things are made, how machines work or the fascinating things people invent...

• If they want to make things work better or faster• If their parents are always on their case for tearing

things apart...• If a half-hour conversation about replacement parts

for their mountain bike is a good time...

Then they should consider a career in industrial distribution.

Career Outlook

• There are more than 1,000,000 positions in business-to-business sales• Jobs in every area of expertise – from the

accounting department to inventory control• The ICP Job Board http://jobs.idcareers.org

can give you an idea of some of the open positions in the field

Outside Sales

How Much Money Can be Made?

• Beginning Outside Sales = $37,456• Beginning Inside Sales = $34,796• Customer Service Rep = $36,000

• Salaries increase as one gains experience• Benefits are not included in these figures

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