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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