Hello All- In need of advice here. I was a BDR at Oracle-Netsuite for a year and was promoted to AE this past January. I was recently let go due to mass layoffs. The problem I keep running into in interviews is that they say I interview well but I just don’t have enough AE experience. I really don’t want to be a BDR again.
My Regional Sales Director said he’s more than happy to be a referral to any hiring manager to reiterate my layoff was just bad timing and poor luck. Any advice is helpful.

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Thank you for your comment. Would you mind elaborating on that?

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Please help him with referrals.

Correction: TC 51.3 has 15% variable.
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