It helps to be self-motivated, curious and confident, and today, if you are fluent in using social media, that is a huge plus.

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Sobczak says in order to be a successful salesperson, one must be motivated and self-disciplined, confident and positive, a great interviewer and performer, and have an immense desire to learn.

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So that those who achieved tended to be supremely self-motivated.

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You have to be very self-motivated.

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Distance students must be technology savvy, organised, and self-motivated.

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But he warned that some MPs believed that support for the current system among peers "is motivated purely by self-interest and that it will somehow melt away if we can be bought off by some vague offer of grandfather rights for existing members".

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