Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 86: The Most Despised Place

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: The Most Despised Place

At this moment, Xu Zhilin, the resentful genius, only harbored full-blown disappointment towards the company and society in his heart. He was on the verge of losing his temper at Gu Nuan and saying, "One day, I’ll show them all!"

Gu Nuan remained silent.

Unlike Xu Zhilin, she had long passed the stage where she would get angry so easily. The unfair things she had encountered since childhood far exceeded anyone’s imagination. So, she didn’t see the need to get angry over such a trivial matter.

Suddenly, Xu Zhilin remembered something and slapped his forehead, "I might as well be talking to a deaf person!"

Gu Nuan couldn’t hear him.

He was obviously confused by his own anger.

Ahead, the HR staff finally led them to the new department and introduced, "This is the famous Investment Attraction Department of Changda."

Xu Zhilin’s face immediately darkened as if he was wearing a big black pot.

Those in real estate might not even know what investment attraction means, familiar only with a widely-known term called sales.

What investment attraction does, when spoken about, is actually a branch of sales. Some companies categorize sales under the investment attraction department. However, in large conglomerate companies, where job roles are finely distributed, investment attraction and sales are definitely separated; they wouldn’t let salespeople do investment attraction tasks.

The reason is simple: investment attraction work is much harder than sales, and the compensation is not necessarily higher.

Both Gu Nuan and Xu Zhilin, being finance students and practitioners, clearly understood the distinction between investment attraction and sales. Therefore, when the HR specialist proudly introduced them to the Investment Attraction Department of Changda, only fools could be deceived.

In Xu Zhilin’s opinion, they might as well have asked him to do sales directly.

Perhaps the sales division of Changda was also managed by the investment attraction division, but clearly, those in the know would prefer to work in sales rather than in investment attraction.

Investment attraction is a typical case of thankless hard labor.

Well, speaking of the difference between investment attraction and sales, it could take days and nights to explain using textbook language and still end up confusing.

Gu Nuan remembered that when she first encountered these terms, she also found the textbook language tough to understand. Later, she consulted a teacher who told her to take up a part-time job.

As the saying goes, travelling ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books.

Some things, especially practical business operations, just can’t be learned from textbooks alone. Doing it once is better than reading a multitude of books overnight.

Gu Nuan was obedient and usually worked part-time, mostly helping teachers with data collection because of her rapid reading and good spreadsheet skills, making her somewhat famous among the teachers, who often gave her such tasks.

Following her teacher’s advice, Gu Nuan immediately signed up for part-time jobs for students at the social practice office in school. It’s common for companies to seek part-time sales personnel in schools mainly because students work for lower wages, equivalent to cheap labor. Of course, more importantly, sales are typically low-threshold tasks.

Anyone who has worked in sales knows that it’s generally priced with a base salary plus commission. In other words, the more you work, the more you earn, and technically, you could also earn nothing.

Gu Nuan found that sales were indeed easy; working for big company brands made it even simpler. The products practically sold themselves as customers came specifically for the brand.

The root of this lies in the fact that sales personnel usually possess more specialized and comprehensive product knowledge compared to the customers. This is why customers, being in a passive buying state, are easily persuaded by salespeople.

But investment attraction is a different story.

Take real estate, for example, distinguishing between commercial and residential properties.

Residential property sales don’t involve investment attraction. Buyers are often either own-use type or investors who lack comprehensive knowledge of property, thus are easily persuaded by sales personnel into purchasing. Additionally, purchasing is a one-time action. Once a salesperson sells a property, the transaction is generally concluded.

Commercial properties, on the other hand, rely heavily on investment attraction. Typical investors in commercial real estate are large companies such as various brand enterprises, including department stores and chain supermarkets. These are all professional companies.

These companies are also looking for feasible rental plans, thus their professional knowledge in this area is typically more comprehensive than that of commercial real estate companies.

For this reason, in investment attraction activities, the personnel and the clients are about evenly matched, making negotiations fiercely competitive and the tug-of-war can be tremendously tough.

Everyone prefers to do easy jobs; no one likes laborious tasks that hardly please.

Xu Zhilin too would rather work in sales, even if the base salary was lower, leveraging his smooth-talking skills to deceive less knowledgeable customers, rather than dealing with shrewd ones. It was too exhausting and he wouldn’t necessarily earn more than in sales.

The HR staff, noticing their silence, realized they were knowledgeable and decided to be done with it, pushing these problematic new hires directly to the people in the investment attraction department.

After all, the whole company knew that the investment attraction department was specifically for solving complex issues. Therefore, a hidden rule seemed to exist within the company: if someone didn’t quite fit the bill in the eyes of the higher-ups, they were most likely kicked to investment attraction.

Xu Zhilin was assigned to Group One of the investment attraction department, and Gu Nuan was sent to Group Three.

Each carrying their briefcase and the personal stationery provided by the company, they reported to their respective groups in the office area.

The investment attraction department was concentrated on one floor, in one area.

Since it was relatively hard to recruit for investment attraction and those recruited tended to not stay long, staff shortages were common here. Gu Nuan, with her belongings, walked to the corner rumored to be Project Group Three and discovered to her surprise that there were only two people working.

Upon asking, she found out that besides her, there truly were only two people in the group: naturally, one was the group leader and the other a member.

Such a small number of personnel made it seem like a place people disliked.

Due to the lack of people, the group leader seemed to be juggling a myriad of tasks, probably around forty years old but with a beard covering his chin, having no time to shave, and if there was a word to describe him, it would be unkempt.