Struggling to even get an interview…
2 YOE as a sales specialist tasked with planning strategic playbooks with sales leaders and product merchants, training and coaching our sales force, plus creating/communicating content/tools that make them more effective.
Yet in applying for any Sales Enablement role I’m getting turned down left and right.
Anyone in a current Sales Enablement role or hiring a Sales Enablement role provide feedback on what I’m missing as a candidate?
I will share that at roughly 15 YOE, it took me 4 years of applications and interviews to land a job at Microsoft. In many cases it boils down to knowing someone on the team you are hiring on to, if not the manager themselves, or someone directly connected to either. In my case it took a referral from the person leaving the role being offered to land the interview, and I still have to ace the loop to get chosen.
Thank you for the reply. Yes I’ll have to look at doing this more strategically from my LinkedIn Profile.
How are you titled on your resume? It may be worth editing to convey sales enablement rather and specialist. Additionally, have you reached out to any hiring managers via other means? I.e LinkedIn?
At the end of the day it is also just a numbers game, so keep it going and I’m sure someone will eventually give you a chance!
If it will get you more conversations definitely do it. The odds of them calling your current company is basically 0%. I always advise customizing your resume based on the job you are applying for
Sales enablement is a joke and also there is hardly a demand. That is why. My company is about 200 people and almost half of that is sales. Out of about 80 SDR/AEs we have 3 sales enablement positions.
I do understand it. And yes, saying it's a joke is partially satire on my end but again, there is no demand! If you're a salesperson or eng, you'll have a job forever. But roles like: sales enablement, University talent acquisition, marketing analyst are hard to come by since "companies are not meant to have a lot of us".