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What's the most important skill you should look for when hiring junior salespeople? ⭐️ COACHABILITY ⭐️ In a fast-paced, ever-evolving field like sales, having the right attitude towards learning and improvement, for me, will ALWAYS outweigh technical skills or product knowledge. Not convinced? Here are 4 reasons to change your mind 👇 1️⃣ Adaptability - markets change, strategies shift, and sales techniques evolve. Coachable people are flexible and quick to adapt to new approaches. 2️⃣ Growth mindset - they take feedback as an opportunity to grow, not as criticism. This attitude helps them improve faster than someone who thinks they know it all or who is too afraid to be anything but perfect. 3️⃣ Resilience - rejection is part of sales. Coachable salespeople learn how to handle setbacks, refining their approach with each experience, instead of getting discouraged. 4️⃣ Teamwork - they listen to more experienced colleagues and mentors, applying insights from those who’ve been there and done it. Skills can be taught, but the desire to learn and improve can’t. Which is why we've revamped our assessment process to test for exactly this. Working with not only the top 1% of talent, but also THE MOST coachable junior salespeople out there. Would you consider hiring for potential over on-paper perfection? 🤔

Hiring a founder’s associate sucks… but you should do it! 👀 I’ve been interviewing dozens of enthusiastic and impressive candidates. Some have years of relevant experience and others are student superstars who’ve done way more than I did at their stage. It’s obvious they’re well prepared and they send thoughtful notes post-interview. It sucks because we’ll need to say no to most of them even though they’d be great. We’re spoiled for choice :). (Wish we could afford to hire more) The founder’s associate will be our generalist right hand who we can trust to represent our brand and voice! 1000s of founders follow me. Let me know if you're interested in the candidates who we liked and weren't our final choice - we'll connect you! 😉 80% of candidates came through our reach (interviews mainly last week) and 20% through Jumpstart (mainly this week). The Jumpstart team have been great and definitely worth checking out what they do too if you're on the hunt!

How do you go from recruitment consultant to content strategist?   Over the last few years, Jumpstart alum Immy Leslie has learnt all about squiggly career paths.   She's gone from recruitment consultant to startup sales to content strategist and has learnt a lot along the way. Keen to learn more about Immy's journey? Immy shares all with Sol Hyde and Jamie K. on the latest episode of the The Path Less Chosen Podcast 🎙   The episode covers the unpredictable world of startups, the importance of personal development and advice for people eyeing up a startup career (+ so much more!).   It's the perfect soundtrack to your lunch time walk if you ask us. Listen on your favourite podcast platform!

New hire 🚀 Delighted to announce that Will Everill has joined the ClimateImpact team! You can meet him (along with me and Kendall Smith ) at 🔥THE HEAT tomorrow and at #nyc Climate Week next week! Check out our schedule here: https://lnkd.in/e2n2sV-k 🇺🇸 If you're interested in partnering with us, speak to Will! Shout to our friends at Jumpstart which is like a headhunter on steroids! Within 2 weeks of speaking to them, we had an offer out and accepted. Already working with them again for our next search. Connect with Matthew Sarre for more.

Material Index would like to welcome Oliver Lawson to the team as our Material Exchange Lead. As material brokering and reuse ramps up at Material Index, the operational complexity inevitably increases, so we sought to onboard a team member with experience in this area. Oliver developed his operations and strategy expertise working in his family business, which specialises in the supply of high end Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) equipment to the luxury greenhouse industry. Oliver further developed his operations experience, building a team and leading the UK launch of Foodtech company Foodles. Enabling reuse in construction relies on three key aspects (1) knowing what is in your building*, (2) identifying pathways, and (3) understanding how to disassemble, move, store & certify materials. *please reach out for audits Understanding disassembly, packing, storage and logistics are key to ensuring reuse of materials can happen. We love Oliver's 'get it done attitude'; he's not afraid to roll up his sleeves to get stuck in and we are really pleased to have him in the team to lead in the materials side of our business. Please reach to Oliver for any material related queries, or just to say hi 👋 Also, a massive thank you to Matthew Sarre, Rachel Howe, Darcy Gilbert and the rest of the Jumpstart team for introducing us to Oliver. They provided us the opportunity to interview a number of extremely talented candidates and supported us through the hiring process. Get in touch for your recruitment requirements. #reuse #hiring #operations #logistics

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Feeling a bit stuck in recruitment? It’s a pretty common dilemma, especially when looking to switch to a sales role. Is selling people the same as selling products? Does it matter that I’ve never done B2B SaaS? Sure, I know the fin-tech industry inside & out but does that really mean I can sell in it? Last week, I ran some numbers and discovered something pretty surprising: nearly a third of this year's sales stream alumni (those who’ve landed new sales roles via Jumpstart) came from recruitment backgrounds. In the past few weeks alone we’ve seen: 👉 Charlotte transition from exec search to the GTM team at Userled 👉 David leverage his experience in education recruitment to secure a role as an Account Executive at Qured 👉 Shannon swap health-tech recruitment for software sales at CV Partner Proof that maybe the leap from recruitment to sales isn’t that daunting after all? #recruitmenttosales #salesstream

Ever been ghosted?   It's not great (or so we've heard, *cough cough*).   Which is why getting brilliant young people into startup roles is only half of what we do.   We also provide Jumpstarters with a package of support to help them navigate their startup career.   And one of the areas we get A LOT of love for is our mentorship scheme where we match Jumpstarters with a fantastic mentor from the startup space.   We've been blown away by the impact the mentors have had on their mentees (and vice versa!) so we're LOOKING FOR MORE BRILLIANT MENTORS to help support Jumpstarters in their careers - which is where you come in!   👉 Drop Matthew Sarre a DM if you're interested in finding out more.   Need some more convincing?   Here's just some of the feedback we've had about the scheme: 😍 "My mentor gave me invaluable insights into navigating my career" - Jasneet Kaur Taak 😍 "I can't speak highly enough of the mentoring scheme and how useful my sessions with Wulfie Bain have been!" - George Hearn 😍 "I've loved how tangible all the advice from my mentor has been - everything has been super practical, results driven and actionable" - Stephanie Leung 😍 "Having a mentor has been invaluable" - Harris Mahmood (Photo of some lovely Jumpstarters at the JS5K last month because we're not going to miss an opportunity to post about the event x)

You know that person who won't stop talking about that time they went travelling.   Well it's time we say sorry.   Because over the last couple of weeks, we've been guilty of not shutting up about the Big Startup 5K.   But we're not taking all the responsibility. Our LinkedIn's have been flooded with posts from all the brilliant people who attended the event.   So whilst we can only apologise to anyone in our networks for having to see yet another 5K post, we want to say a HUGE thank you every single person that came along (with a special thanks to our sponsors Novabook, YuLife, Focal, Lucky Saint | B Corp™ , Boundless, ELEAT, JAMES WHITE DRINKS LTD).   You all made the event and we've absolutely loved seeing the connections (both within your teams and with others) you've all made.   Luckily for you, this video captures everything we want to convey so we'll save your feeds and stop going on about it now.   Time for business to resume as usual. Until next year.   📹 George M., TIM HEARN PHOTOGRAPHY LTD

𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝟱𝗞 Last week, we were at the Jumpstart Battersea 5K, where we had the pleasure of offering our lager and Hazy IPA to all the finishers. Jumpstart is all about making startup careers accessible for everyone, whether you’re a recent graduate or a seasoned professional. In just two years, they’ve launched over 200 startup careers, helping people push their limits. It was inspiring to see so many startups come together, test their boundaries, and celebrate with a well-deserved Lucky Saint, all in one place. Cheers to everyone who took part, and here’s to more events like these in the future.