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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Someone in Sales

We're looking for someone in Sales.
We're looking for someone with sales experience.
We're looking for someone who has sales rep experience.
We're looking for someone for the Sales department.

Are they correct and do they carry about the same meaning?
(Of course, each has a different meaning)

Thanks
LiJ
  

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For me, only the first doesn't necessarily convey the meaning of an available position. In context I'm sure it would be understood, but by itself it gives me the image of the SWAT team moving through the sales offices while the miscreant cowers under a desk. And of course, the last sentence, aside from not requiring experience, might not even be about a sales job.

— Delmobile

  • For me, only the first doesn't necessarily convey the meaning of an available position.
  • In context I'm sure it would be understood, but by itself it gives me the image of the SWAT team moving through the sales offices while the miscreant cowers under a desk.
  • And of course, the last sentence, aside from not requiring experience, might not even be about a sales job.
  • You might be looking for a receptionist in the Sales department.
  • The second sentence seems the clearest and best worded to me.
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For me, only the first doesn't necessarily convey the meaning of an available position. In context I'm sure it would be understood, but by itself it gives me the image of the SWAT team moving through the sales offices while the miscreant cowers under a desk.

And of course, the last sentence, aside from not requiring experience, might not even be about a sales job. You might be looking f
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DelmobileSWAT team moving through the sales offices while the miscreant cowers under a desk.
That's good.

I undersand. Thanks, Delmobile.
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