Hi all, I'm trying to break into sales coming from a technical background. It's been very difficult as a lot of recruiters only see the technical aspects of my previous role, even though I've added in some sales aspects from those roles. Any advice on how to break past the initial view of my resume/past technical experiences to get interviews?

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Tie everything to revenue, growth and customer satisfaction! Highlight your network, technical knowledge and how it can help sales. Is there a certain niche for you? maybe you can ride on that

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Also, sales is all about helping people/companies solve problems they’re facing. Focus on ways you have helped solve client issues through technology by listening and asking discovery questions.

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Look at Sales Engineering roles.

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Also, I’m sure you were involved in internal selling, and getting buy in for innovations you introduced, so make sure you describe that, and if you have metrics like adoption rate etc. that will help.

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Why move to sales? What about internal AE at MS?

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