Simon Briant
- Inside Sales Team Lead
- National Precision Bearing
School Information
School: University of Washington
College Major: Other
Years at College Works: 2009 to 2012
Career Information
Working For: National Precision Bearing
Title: Inside Sales Team Lead
Industry: Aerospace/Aviation
Brief Description of Duties / Responsibilities:
Leading the East Inside Sales Team covering the US East Coast and Europe. Primary point of contact for our Regional Sales Managers, VIP customers and OEM accounts. Responsible for training team members on our sales systems and industry knowledge, managing our team monthly and annual sales budget, and the day-to-day responsibilities of an account manager.
College Works Career Impact
How did your CW experience impact your career? Immediately after graduation? Now?
My College Works Painting experience helped me develop my partnership skills and gave me a resume builder.
What was the greatest lesson you learned from your CW experience?
Take everything with a grain of salt. Do what you love and want to do and the results will come.
Advice
What advice do you have for potential CW participants? Current CW participants?
Understand that the College Works Painting internship program is going to be hard work, a first compared to what you are used to and it will be tough. But things are relative and everyone has to knock on doors at some point.
What’s your favorite memory from CW?
Cancun trips… It was nice relaxing after the summer was over and reflex on what I learned that year.