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On average it takes about 5 months to find a job. You have to consider personal factors such as your long term career goals, the type of company culture you’d like to work in, and technical components such as how to organize your resume and how to stand out in your interview. Luckily, there are lots of ways you can prepare yourself for the sales hiring process. This article will take you through how to find a job with the right fit, organize your sales resume, and most importantly, nail the sales interview.

Working in sales is competitive and challenging. Research shows that 57% of sales reps missed their quotas in 2018. You’ve probably heard about the 80/20 rule: 80% of sales are made by 20% of sales reps. Sales recruitment agency Aaron Wallis performed a study on Forbes’ 2020 Billionaires list, to find out that most billionaires started their career as sales reps. The bottom line? Sales is a hard job but if you do it right, you can become highly successful. Working hard in sales doesn’t necessarily lead to making millions. What makes some salespeople become really successful is working smart. But what is it....

In sales, only 34% of sales teams reach their quotas.  This means the vast majority make mistakes that not only cost them revenue, but drastically hamper both their team’s morale and productivity. In the fast-paced and cutthroat sales industry, these underperforming sales teams struggle to survive. The power to build a top-performing sales team falls on one person — the sales manager. Sales managers assemble their sales team and set the overall tone and dynamics for their department. A great team isn’t built overnight, however. It takes long-term planning and strategy, as well as time, know-how, and an understanding of what....

If you’ve watched major golf tournaments over the years, you’ve probably seen how quickly everything can go from on track to suddenly off the rails. One bad shot and your favorite golfer is hopelessly stuck in a sand trap, their score for the entire round of golf in jeopardy.  The life of a salesperson isn’t much different when attempting to meet their sales goals.  Think of every round of golf as a sales quarter for an Account Executive.  Quotas that we set at the beginning of a year for each quarter help to ensure that we hit the overall revenue....