Career questions tagged sdr
What to do now, I mean how lucky I am?
So I got a job as a SDR, signed a contract and they in the middle of the summer before starting they fired me because they thought I wasn’t professional. The thing is that a sales manager interviewed me and the interview went pretty well and we had a nice conversation. The thing is that my relationship with that other company didn’t end so well, I think even the manager wasn’t to happy with my persona. The thing is that I now am interviewing for another SDR position, and they have the same manager(who this time works in house and thought his agency like the first time). Now, I really want this job and I’ve successfully passed the CV screening and the first round of interview with them. The impression was positive and honestly it’s the only good job lined up that I have. Now what should I do? Address the situation? Tell him that things have changed? Tell him nothing and hope he doesn’t remember( I just had a talk with him, he didn’t interview me and again it was pretty nice) but the things with the first company ended pretty bad too. Please tell me, because I can’t get enough of this and I really wanna have this job. Update: I had the interview and it couldn’t have gone better. Literally, he asked me a bunch of questions and I totally aced them. We had a few laughs and it honestly felt like a normal and pleasant conversation, he even asked why I was so serious ahhahaha. Usual conversational questions. Honestly he seems like a great guy to work for, I did some research and he is a pretty big guy on sales management so I am sure that working with him will make me a great sales rep. I also mentioned one of his LinkedIn posts. Repeat, I think I aced it, he told me about the challenges of the role in detail and pretty much sold the company to me. Also he told me openly that there were several things that he liked about me. He didn’t know about the incident on my previous company. He just asked why I left and I told him that it was because I wanted to explore new places that were oriented at marketing and that were a better fit for my professional background. I forgot tho to ask about compensation and I dm him on LinkedIn They should get Back to me with an interview with the CEO after the holidays. Based on those indicators would you say it’s any good? I literally hate job search so I want to get the job.
What to do if your employer will give you a bad reference?
Hello, I have been doing a BDR internship for a Indian startup for a month and I didn’t book anything, now I am trying a new approach. The founder tho, sees me as dishonest and unreliable because we had some misunderstanding. I fear he will be a bad reference for when I’ll finish high school and I’ll try to get a SDR/BDR job for a US company(I am from Italy). I fear he might say that I am not a good employee and he will jeopardise my chances of getting a job. Now he hasn’t fired me from the internship yet, but he wants me to book something for the end of the week. I fear he might just be firing me out of the internship. He is very micromanaging and pretty pretentious (even if it’s a unpaid internship). Should I put this on my resume? It’s the only sales experience I have so I don’t know what to do. Please I really need to get a BDR job after high school. Plus if in a few months from now I won’t sell anything, should I put it on my resume anyways? I am finishing school so I don’t have time for actually stick to it. Plus I am doing another internship and managing 2 websites. Can I still make it a valuable experience on my resume even if I dint sell anything?