Anwar Barayil spent 27 years with multinationals in the Gulf, including Gillette, P&G and Etisalat, then 20 years building his own businesses in the UAE and India. He is based in Chennai.
Anwar Barayil is a Chennai-based sales and goal-setting trainer for colleges and companies in Thiruvananthapuram. His 90-minute career talk shows engineering, arts and management students why sales is a respectable and well-paid career, with a selling-skills course for those who want more.
Thiruvananthapuram is the state capital, so government offices, public sector bodies, the university and research institutions shape how many families think about careers. Sales is often seen as a second choice here, and that is the idea the career talk is built to challenge.
Technopark gives the city a large software and services workforce, and the new port at Vizhinjam is bringing logistics and trade activity. Tourism and hospitality around Kovalam, along with car dealers and retail along the main roads, add customer-facing jobs.
Engineering and management colleges in and around the city have students who may never have met a sales manager. Hearing one explain his path from sales clerk to Trade Marketing Manager for the Middle East changes how they see it.
Why sales belongs beside engineering, medicine, law and accountancy, told through his own path from sales clerk to manager. Built for final-year business and management students.
The 90-minute career talk is the natural first step, because the main need is to change how students and parents see a sales career. Colleges that want skills as well can add the one to two day selling-skills course, and the half-day goal-setting workshop suits mixed groups of final-year students.
Finding customers, the sales call, handling objections and closing, drawn from 27 years at Gillette, P&G and Etisalat.
A guided exercise where every participant leaves with written goals and a first step.
Anwar travels from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram by air or by train. As the southern end of his Kerala circuit, it pairs well with a visit to colleges and companies elsewhere in the state.
Anywhere outside his first-preference southern states, the host covers travel, stay and fee.
Anwar Barayil, a Chennai-based sales trainer, offers career talks, goal-setting workshops, selling-skills courses and sales team training for colleges and companies in Thiruvananthapuram.
No. It is built for final-year students from business, engineering and arts programmes who have not yet considered sales, and it explains why sales belongs beside engineering, medicine, law and accountancy.
The career talk "Sales is a career worth choosing" runs for about 90 minutes. A longer selling-skills course of one to two days can follow it.
Call or WhatsApp +91 98402 44034, or email anwar.barayil@gmail.com, with your college or company name, group size and the session you want.
Send your college or company name, group size and the session you want. He replies himself.
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