We all wish we had a roadmap for career progression, especially in SaaS sales. How do you set yourself apart? How do you find immediate success? Is it your mindset, work ethic, continuous improvement? Who are you in your off-hours? Are you transparent?
Have you researched the job or the type of job that you are looking for?
Are you able to tie in experiences that you have had?
Do you possess the hunger needed to get into the tech space?
Being prepared to prove your interest goes a long way in the interview process. Showing that you know enough about the role shows you are truly interested and will work as hard once you have started in the role that you are seeking.
Listen as Dylan Allen shares his advice on continuous improvement, “something that I think individuals need to take more ownership of”, and having and maintaining a strong work ethic.
Excerpt from Podkast:
Dylan Allen – “I’ll put in the extra hours. I’ll put in the extra time and really just kind of did whatever I could in the interview process is to reassure that recruiter, or that that sales manager that like you know, hey, I’m the guy you should bet on and here’s why. And something to reassure that recruiter or else that I think folks can do as well.
Even though I wasn’t in tech sales, a lot of the work that I did at my previous company was still very transferable.
Making cold calls, you know, prospecting, running my own sales calls, and all of those things that I can absolutely leverage that experience into as well.
So, I think there are a few different ways you can go about it, but at the end of the day, you got to be able to put and change their perspective in that person’s mind a little bit and just kind of say hey, like you know I can do this and really persuade them and let them know that you know you can do it and give them that confidence to pull the trigger.”
