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Hello ladies, gents, cartoon animals, and others.
Today’s topic is quite important since most don’t understand how to leave an impact and how to ask the right questions. Those two in combination can either make you or break you when it comes to landing jobs. The same logic applies to getting yourself into tech sales. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to interviewing?
You are selling yourself into a role.
Second most important thing to keep in mind is that during the interviewing process, you should learn how to pitch the company you are interviewing with. Your goal should be to sound as natural as possible. It's exactly the same thing you will be doing when you land a role. What should you do to impress the hiring manager?
Put yourself in the perspective of the hiring manager who is looking for a new SDR. What qualities managers are looking for? Someone who can sell, sound confident, and be a natural - full package. Why would hiring a manager make his life any harder when he has someone who is pitching before even having a job? Logic. Now throw in the mix questions where the hiring manager himself will have to qualify the company.
To cover most splitting the article further into two categories:
General questions
SDR specific questions