I’m seeking to move my career into SaaS such as a solutions engineer or Sales Engineer. I have been working in biotech for 2 yrs in engineering, as well as Ops Specialist. I really want to work remotely as it something I enjoy plus I have medical reasons for WFH. I work in the lab and I’m working on getting certification in Software sales. I really want to work in Tech SaaS Sales. What are tips to further improve my chances in SaaS, solutions/sale engineer?

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I also want to switch. What certificate are you pursuing?

Working on Trailhead for Salesforce certification. Great way to learn sales force and solve problems for clients. I seek to be a Solutions consultant (same as sales engineer / applications engineer). Also listening to audiobooks to write out ways of selling it clients.

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