Helping companies with a smarter, quicker and European cloud | BDR @ Upcloud ⏐ Fueled by Salsa Moves 🪇 • Dog Lover
Looking for a sales position is a job... So treat it like one. When looking for a job, I was clear that I needed a daily routine AND a tracking system to hold me accountable. When you don't have a job and you're looking for one, it's very easy to entertain yourself with a zillion things that don't matter. Such as walking your dog, fixing the living room door, or doing laundry... If you're looking for a sales job and spending the majority of your day on low-importance tasks... STOP. You need to apply to lots of open positions and talk to hiring managers, that's it. I recommend that you pick a number of job openings you want to apply for each day and do that first thing. I chose 5 applications a day. And to hold myself accountable and to score each offer I applied to, I created a scorecard. (You can grab a copy of mine down below if you like.) I chose 8 criteria for each job opening and assigned a score to each. That way, if a company came back to me with an offer, and in the case that I had different offers to choose from, I would have a better clue about which one I preferred the most. On the other hand, the scorecard helped me stay accountable. I didn't stop applying each day until 5 more rows of the scorecard were filled in. That is how I created a basic system that I needed to complete each day. And six weeks later, I landed my sales job. In my next post, I will talk about a crucial part of this whole process. Now go and apply for sales jobs!
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Helping companies with a smarter, quicker and European cloud | BDR @ Upcloud ⏐ Fueled by Salsa Moves 🪇 • Dog Lover
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