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A BDR/SDR would be the entry level for tech sales. An AE is usually the second step after a year or two as a BDR.

Most tech companies want to hire BDR’s that have been under a quota before. Sounds like she can leverage her analyst role into an entry level sales role.

Maybe she was inside sales for corporate, I don’t know what her role was obviously. Her best bet it is to get an actual sales role where she is under a quota and then after a year leverage that into a bdr role.

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