01The idea
Selling isn’t only a job. You sell when you interview, pitch an idea, raise money for a startup or negotiate your salary.
Everyone will spend a career persuading people to say yes, but nothing on campus teaches the motion. Here you practise it out loud — and take the hot seat with your own pitch before it really counts.
Not a speaker series. Not a networking club. Not career services. No slides, no sponsor logos on a beamer.
02The session
90 minutes, every second week. Twenty minutes on one concept, then reps on it with feedback and a score. Nobody sits through a session without speaking.
20 min
One concept
70 min
Reps, feedback, a score
Six formats
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Discovery
Surface what someone actually needs before pitching anything.
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The 90-second pitch
Three attempts in one session, scored each time. Re-run and re-scored every semester, so you can watch your number move.
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Objection rounds
Fast rounds. Everyone gets hit.
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Negotiation
Salary, price, terms.
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Teardown
Pull apart a real recorded call.
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Hot seat
Bring your real pitch, call or interview. The room plays buyer, tears it apart, then you run it again. A pitch on Thursday, a prospect on Monday — this is where it gets rehearsed.
Hot seat
Bring your real pitch, call or interview. The room plays buyer, tears it apart, then you run it again. A pitch on Thursday, a prospect on Monday — this is where it gets rehearsed.
03Who it’s for
Whatever you end up doing, you’ll need people to say yes. A career in sales is one path — not the only one.
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Starting from zero
Leave able to run a discovery conversation, handle “we already have someone” without freezing, and ask for money — then stay quiet.
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Heading into interviews
Sell yourself — your experience, your story and what you’re worth — before the interview that counts.
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Already selling
Rehearse against real objections before you use them on a real prospect.
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Founders
The problem is almost never the product — it’s explaining what it does instead of what it’s worth. That’s a sales problem.
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Companies
Meet students who have chosen commercial work and already have reps behind them.
04Open Stage
One evening, no commitment, on something you already want. Open Stage is the front door to the core.
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Salary negotiation
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Why you didn’t get the offer
06Questions
I don’t want to go into sales. Is this for me?
Yes. The same skill gets you through interviews, pitches and negotiations — whatever career you choose.
Do I need sales experience?
No. The beginner always gets a job: you start in the buyer seat. Nobody just watches.
How big is the core?
15–30 committed members. Above about 30, people stop getting a turn.
Does attendance matter?
For the core, yes. Open Stage evenings are one-off, with no commitment.
Is it an official university club?
Not yet. It is an independent student group.