In my last role, I averaged 180% quota attainment and generated 47% of all SQLs on a 5-person team. I’m a career BDR, and every role I apply to seems to have 300+ applicants.

Genuine question for women in tech/sales: is it distasteful to BDR your own job search? Apollo, target lists, cold calls, LinkedIn outreach, direct emails to hiring managers?

Or is relying solely on ATS actually the worse strategy?

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Nope. Not distasteful when done with skill and suave

ATS + AI systems as primary hiring tools lead to huge discrepancies in evaluating top talent. I know this now because jobs that I am more than qualified for according to multiple LLM’s and algorithms are auto rejected within 24 hours.

I’ll take it one step further. I reached out to two former colleagues for referrals for a role I was very well qualified for because the ATS auto rejected me. I got to the hiring manager interview and we had an hour long convo. We both determined it wasn’t a 100% match but the point is I had to through the back or side door to talk to him in order to know that.

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